Comment pending – WordPress 2.7

No one knows what the problem MAY be?

I have the problem as well, it’s very annoying…

I searched a bit and it seems to be related to the Custom Smilies plugin. Apparently, WP 2.7 marks the smilies as links. In my case, all comments containing more than 1 link would automatically need to be approved. Since WP counts smilies as links (and people tend to use more than 1 smiley in their comment) the comments were held for moderation. I set the option to 10 links now ??

I have been having this same problem and indeed I am using a smilies plugin. My visitors really like them so I hope not to have to remove them. Has anyone found a work around for this problem besides setting the links option so high?

I found a fix a few days ago:

Fix: Change the regular expression [line 48 in wp-includes/comment.php] to this:

|(href\t*?=\t*?[‘\”]?)(https?:)?//|i

Eliminate that center question mark. If we’re applying the comment_text filter first, then any unlinked http uris will have been autolinked already, meaning that the href= will exist around them. Making it not necessary for it to be optional.

This will also eliminate the false positive on an img src=”http:whatever”