Please Create an Email Whitelist for Commenters
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How do I convince the WordPress team to make the now defunct Comment Whitelist plugin native to all WordPress?
I depended on it for years and now it doesn’t work. But this should not be a third party plugin anyway. It should be a default function.
Just as we can blacklist email addresses entered into comments to block people using those IDs to post comments, we need to be able to “automatically” manually approve comments of any comment with an approved email address entered.
No other methods are suitable. We cannot expect 90% of customers to create login credentials and tediously use them all the time. When we natively set it so every commenter, whether logged in or not, has to enter an email address (not visible on the front end) to post a comment. And that information should be usable to automatically approve users so they can skip moderation, while everyone else goes to moderation (unless blocked by the native blacklist function, obviously).
The native feature of “must have one approved comment” already does something like this. It “automatically” manually approves comments from, evidently, a list of email addresses generated from previously approved comments. So it should be extremely easy to add an option to swap that list of auto-approved email addresses with one we manually maintain, so we can sell this as a feature to our audiences and better control content quality.
This is what Comment Whitelist did. Which no longer works, or no longer works with certain comments plugins, but either way, we should not need a plugin for this. It needs to be a native, built-in, default feature of WordPress.
So, how do I convince the WordPress development team to implement this?
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We can’t help as your site isn’t running on the wordpress.com platform – https://wordpress.com/site-profiler/http://www.richardcarrier.info
However that function is already part of the wordpress core.
Trusted Commenters: In Settings > Discussion, under “Comment Moderation,” check “Comment author must have a previously approved comment”.
How it works: The first comment from a user (identified by name, email, and site) gets moderated; subsequent ones from that same combination are auto-approved. -
Lol. You didn’t read my comment. I already mentioned the “previous comment” feature and why it does not do what I am talking about. And I am running the WordPress suite. That’s why I have access to core features like the one you and I mention but not the one I want.
That you don’t know the difference between a non-WordPress server and running a WordPress suite, and didn’t know the difference between the “previous comment” feature and what I am asking for, even though I elaborately explained how what I am asking for is different from that, suggests a rather alarming carelessness on the part of respondents here.
I have to conclude the answer to my question is this: “You can’t ever persuade WordPress staff to ever do anything useful, because no one at WordPress ever reads these things anyway, and they literally don’t care what we ever ask for.”
Okay. Noted.
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Again: We can’t help as your site isn’t running on the wordpress.com platform – https://wordpress.com/site-profiler/http://www.richardcarrier.info
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