The ability to Unapprove commenters
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I can’t understand why WP can’t allow us to ‘unapprove’ commenters once they have been approved? It seems like it would be a ludicrously easy piece of code? Each blog must have a database of approved commenters. Why can’t we simply remove someone?
If there is one feature that should be implemented, this is it.
It’s as if WordPress were a word processor that lacked the ability to delete words once they were typed in? A feature like this seems painfully fundamental.
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Why not just give bloggers the ability to unapprove commenters?
Why the need for a workaround?
At very, very least, give bloggers a reset button???
According to bloggers elsewhere on the forum, putting usernames in the “Hold for Moderation box” is unreliable.
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I see what you mean. Yes, the workaround is better than nothing, but not perfect. It does seem a simple fix.
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@upinvermont there is an Unapprove button, on the Approved tab. You can use the search function and Bulk Actions to unapprove all of a person’s comments at once.
If that commenter is a spammer, use the Spam button.
Am I misunderstanding something?
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I think they want some way to un-approve the commenter by email address or by name or something like that so that their comments are again sent directly to moderation (with comments set to need approval for a first-time commenter).
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Hi Tellyworth & SacredPath,
SacredPath, here is what you wrote in response to another blogger:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/managing-who-can-comment?replies=5#post-249665
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1. There is no way to unapprove them once you have approved their first comment.2. If someone comment and you delete the comment (and they have not been previously approved) then their comments will still appear for moderation by an admin. Not until you approve one of their comments will they then be able to comment without moderation.
You might consider setting it so that all comments are held in moderation. That way you would not have to “unapprove” inappropriate comments.
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And that’s been my experience at my own blog. Once you have approved a commenter, you *can’t* unapprove *them*, you can only unnapprove a given comment.
By the way, Happy Thanksgiving (should you be celebrating the holiday).
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//I think they want some way to un-approve the commenter by email address or by name or something like that so that their comments are again sent directly to moderation (with comments set to need approval for a first-time commenter). //
And yes, SacredPath, this is what I would like to see. If a commenter has been approved for unmoderated commenting, why can’t that be undone? Obviously, a list of approved commenters is stored *somewhere*, so why can’t bloggers see that list and remove someone?
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There is no list of approved commenters.
When you use the “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” setting, WordPress will check to see if there are any approved comments by that person. If there are, it goes straight through. If not, it’s held for moderation. (Effectively, the list of approved commenters is stored in the list of approved comments).
Thus: unapproving (or deleting) all of a commenter’s old comments will ensure that subsequent comments from them are held for moderation.
If you want all new comments from everyone to be held for moderation, use the “An administrator must always approve the comment” setting.
If you want to keep a particular user’s old comments intact, while ensuring that their comments (and only their comments) are held for moderation in future, add their username or email address to the Comment Moderation box.
There’s no dedicated feature that says “unapprove this user’s future comments while leaving their past comments approved” because it’s a pretty unusual thing to want.
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//(Effectively, the list of approved commenters is stored in the list of approved comments).//
Ah, that makes sense.
//When you use the “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” setting, WordPress will check to see if there are any approved comments by that person. If there are, it goes straight through.//
Then the feature I would request is that WordPress only goes by the status of the most recent comment. If a commenter’s most recent comment has been unapproved, then it would be useful if WordPress held future comments for moderation.
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