Block, Suspend, Report for BuddyPress vs Never Moderate Registered Users

Block, Suspend, Report for BuddyPress is a must-have plugin for EVERY BuddyPress installation. For a full list of features, documentation, screenshots and videos, head to the plugin page. Each tool is explained further below. Block The Block tool allows your members to block another member. They simply click on a ‘block’ button, either on another member’s profile, or on the member list. Once blocked, neither member can send a message to the other. Each member’s profile pages become inaccessible, and display a simple message. Neither can view each other’s activity updates, or replies, and neither can send a friend request to one another. A simple solution to deal with disputes between members. Prevents escalation of abusive or unacceptable conduct between your members. Lets your members deal with disputes by themselves, saving you time. Suspend The Suspend tool allows you, as an administrator, to suspend a member. Available only to administrators is a ‘suspend’ button on your member’s profiles, the member directory, and the admin users screen. Once clicked by you, all of that member’s sessions are terminated, and they will be unable to log back in, instead seeing a custom message explaining the situation. Quickly deals with members who have breached your acceptable standards policies. Allows you to disable an account – until now, you would have to delete the account, or mark them as a spammer. Keeps their profile, uploads, messages and other assets ready, should you decide they can return to the site. See all your suspended members from the back end. Report Flag inappropriate, abusive, or otherwise unacceptable behaviour to the site administrator. Each member’s profile now incorporates a ‘report’ button. This creates a new report, which administrators can see in the backend. You can specify a report type, similar to social media networks such as Facebook, to designate that report as ‘spam’ or ‘abusive’ and so on. You can set Block, Suspend, Report to email you when a new report is received. Gives your members peace of mind that the site is open to moderation. Allows you to deal with any report in your own time, without having to respond to internal messages or other notifications. Set a threshold to automatically suspend a user when a number of reports are received. Mark new reports as read/unread Mark reports as unsubstantiated See number of unread reports from the menu or the dashboard Block, Suspend, Report for BuddyPress Premium Editions The Premium editions adds the following features: Pre-approval system for new activities and group posts A ‘Latest Reports’ box in the dashboard A ‘Most Blocked’ box, showing your site’s worst offenders Integration with Paid Memberships Pro – enable blocking and reporting for certain levels only. Assign a role to a suspended user Automatically receive new features as they are built Ability to add custom CSS to match your theme’s styling perfectly Premium email support Plus, a super-charged report system: You can allow a huge range of content to be reported and moderated, not just members themselves: WordPress Comments Activity Updates Activity Comments Groups Private Messages Forum Topics Forum Replies rtMedia Uploads Create your own report types, or edit the default ones. Add your own reports from the backend, ideal for when your members flag content directly to you via a private message or similar. Whitelist any user roles that cannot be reported Blacklist members so they can’t send reports (ideal for malicious complaints) Quickly moderate (hide) any activity from the dashboard Add your own moderators who have front-end access to the reporting system Let your moderators deal with reports, suspensions, activity moderation Fully Tested With Beehive Theme BP Better Messages Not compatible with Vikinger Theme

This plugin prevents comments from registered users (or, alternatively, those with specified capabilities) from ever going into the moderation queue or getting automatically marked as spam, regardless of the apparent spamminess of the comment. To be recognized as a registered user, the user must be logged into your site at the time they post their comment. The plugin applies to front-end submissions and authenticated REST API requests only; it does not affect comment imports, CLI tools, cron jobs, or other programmatic creation without a logged-in user. This plugin assumes that you trust your registered users. It will automatically approve any comment made by registered users, even if the comment stinks of spam. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not allow users to register themselves (uncheck the setting “Anyone can register” in the WordPress admin under Settings -> General). However, when open registration is enabled, the plugin automatically requires users to have a capability above the site’s default role before their comments bypass moderation or spam checks. For example, when the default role is subscriber, users must have at least the contributor role (which has the edit_posts capability). You can customize this behavior using the ‘c2c_never_moderate_registered_users_open_registration_caps’ filter. See the developer documentation for details. You can further restrict which users bypass moderation by enabling “Trust only privileged users to bypass comment moderation and spam checks” on the Settings -> Discussion admin page. That setting requires users to be able to publish posts or moderate comments before their comments bypass moderation or spam checks. You can also use the ‘c2c_never_moderate_registered_users_caps’ filter to specify trusted roles and capabilities in custom code. See the FAQ for an example. This plugin is a partial successor to my now-defunct Never Moderate Admins or Post Author plugin. The primary purpose of that plugin was to prevent admins and the post’s author from being moderated. WordPress eventually integrated that functionality. However, that plugin also allowed you to prevent registered users from being moderated, which is still a valid need not directly facilitated by WordPress, thus this plugin was spun out. Links: Plugin Homepage | Plugin Directory Page | GitHub | Author Homepage Developer Documentation Developer documentation can be found in DEVELOPER-DOCS.md. That documentation covers the numerous hooks provided by the plugin. Those hooks are listed below to provide an overview of what’s available. c2c_never_moderate_registered_users_open_registration_caps : Customize the capabilities required to bypass moderation when open registration is enabled. c2c_never_moderate_registered_users_privileged_caps : Customize the capabilities that identify privileged users when the Discussion setting is enabled. c2c_never_moderate_registered_users_caps : Customize the capabilities that are automatically trusted, any one of which a user must have in order to never get moderated. c2c_never_moderate_registered_users_approved : Customize granular control for whether a comment by a registered user that would otherwise be moderated or marked as spam should automatically be approved. c2c_never_moderate_registered_users_auto_approved : Fires when the plugin auto-approves a comment that would otherwise have been moderated or marked as spam.