Comment Approved Notifier Extended vs Never Moderate Registered Users

Comment Approved Notifier Extended is a lightweight WordPress plugin with a single focus: automatically notify comment authors when their comments are approved. 🎯 Single Purpose, Zero Bloat This plugin does ONE thing and does it well: * Sends customizable email notifications when comments are approved * No unnecessary features, no performance overhead * Clean, efficient code following WordPress best practices ✨ Key Features Automatic Email Notifications – Instantly notifies users when their comment is approved Customizable Templates – Personalize email subject and body with shortcodes Professional Email Design – Beautiful, responsive HTML email template Dark Mode Support – Email template adapts to user preferences Secure – Built with WordPress security standards (nonce verification, data sanitization, validation) Translation Ready – Fully translatable with .pot file included Lightweight – Minimal database queries, no bloat Developer Friendly – Clean, well-documented code 🎨 Available Shortcodes Personalize your emails with these shortcodes: [commentauthor] – Comment author’s name [commentedposttitle] – Title of the post [commentaddress] – Direct link to the comment [commentcontent] – The comment text [blogname] – Your site name [blogurl] – Your site URL 🔒 Security First Email validation with is_email() Nonce verification for form submissions Data sanitization with sanitize_text_field() and wp_kses_post() Output escaping for security ABSPATH checks Error logging for debugging 💡 Use Cases Improve user engagement by notifying commenters Build community by acknowledging contributions Increase return visits to your blog Professional communication with your audience 🌍 Translation Ready The plugin is fully translatable and includes: * Text domain: comment-approved-notifier-extended * .pot file for translations * RTL support Privacy Policy This plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data beyond what WordPress already stores for comments. It uses existing comment author email addresses to send notifications. 💝 Support This Plugin If Comment Approved Notifier Extended has saved you time and frustration, please consider: ⭐ Leave a 5-star review – Help others discover this solution 🐛 Report bugs or request features – We value your feedback ☕ Buy me a coffee – Support continued development 📢 Share with others – Help fellow WordPress users avoid the “Missed Schedule” nightmare Support For support, feature requests, or bug reports: * Visit the WordPress.org support forum * Check the plugin website Credits Original author: yakuphan Current maintainer: UfukArt Email template design: Responsive HTML email best practices License This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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.