Well, at least it works

  • I’ve tried every plugin out there to flag comments and this is the only one that showed up on the frontend. Unfortunately, it doesn’t send the admin an email when a comment has been flagged by another user. Or set a threshold before the comment is removed altogether until the admin can review the contents. For example, if two people flag the same comment, it should automatically go into moderation and therefore can’t be seen by other people. That’s useful if you are away and don’t have access to your site’s administrative backend.

    Not emailing the admin is it’s biggest downfall. I honestly don’t know why WP wouldn’t have flagging comments as an option for its lauded commenting system. Anyways, if the developer is reading this, please add in this functionality as an option and/or a way to quickly moderate via email using links (as an example):

    Quick moderation: Unpublish | Mark as OK | Trash | Ban IP

    If it did any of the above or even just emailed the site admin, I’d give it ten stars and ten dollars.

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  • Plugin Author Marc T?nsing

    (@marcdk)

    Thanks for the input. Mail notifications are included in update 1.3.

    I could not find a way to unpublish or unapprove comments. I will look into that later.

    Mark as OK and Ban IP are good ideas. I will think about this in version 1.4.

    Thanks.

    First, I thank you Justin Boston for helping me find this plugin. I have struggled like you to find a working plugin that just added ‘Report Abuse’ or something similar to comment, send email to admin, when a threshold is reached quarantine the comment for moderation, and easily allow the admin to thrush or approve the comment. I have tried 4 or 5 plugins and wasted my time. As you mentioned, none showed the link to report in the front end to begin with.

    This one showed the link on activation of plugin. Hurrah!! That is great, but I still did not get the email that this report was made. Do you know Marc what this is about? Am I doing something wrong? You have a great plugin and I will submit my own good review separately once this works out.

    Plugin Author Marc T?nsing

    (@marcdk)

    Hi,

    do you get e-mails if someone posted a comment on your site? Have you looked in your spam folder in your e-mail client?

    Because this plugin is using the exact same functions for e-mail notification as the build in new comment reports in WP.

    – Marc

    Marc, You are a superstar in my book and I will add a 5-star review. Sorry I missed a setting step. Although I take responsibility for missing setting page, my suggestion is that you put all setting in single spot so admins would not miss any setting parameter. The reason I missed you dedicated setting page in WP Admin > Setting > Moderate Comments is because all the other plugins that claim to do this are all doing it within WP Admin > Setting > Discussion page itself and that is the only place I went to and found a checkbox called “Only logged in users may report comments” and just checked that. After looking at your code today I found out you have a dedicate setting page for your plugin. But I would remove the partial setting from the Discussion setting page if I were you. It can be confusing. Bottom line: Once I put the email in the setting, I was able to get email when comments are flagged.

    I am even more convinced after looking at the clean code that you have the best plugin for this function – no one is even close. I really thank you for this great free plugin.

    Plugin Author Marc T?nsing

    (@marcdk)

    Wow. Thank you so much. Your criticism is much appreciated.

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