EZ Anti-Spam Comments with reCAPTCHA vs Never Moderate Registered Users

Automatic Spam Filter uses a simple yet effective JavaScript method to reject comments by robots, and now has an integration option for Google reCAPTCHA as well. You can enter your reCAPTCHA API Keys on the Discussion Settings page in your wp-admin. To display testimonials just place the Widget on your sidebar or insert the Shortcode into a Page or Post to display any comments with Good Karma. You can limit how many are displayed and reverse the sort order or even randomize what comments to show. Note: You can manually edit the karma value for individual comments in the comment section of your wp-admin and then use that value to filter and display only those comments on your testimonial widget. The following example Shortcode would display 8 Comments with the Karma Value of 100 under the heading Client Testimonials: [TESTIMONIALS title=”Client Testimonials” karma=”100″ number=”8″ /] Last Updated October 2024

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.