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nelly > maybe comments are awaiting approval by the admin (comment moderation feature). Toggling comment moderation off doesn’t seem to work. So if you log in as admin and choose Edit > Awaiting Moderation, maybe you will see comments waiting to be approved, deleted, whatever.

johnnyroxxor > Thanks, I tried your change on my test installation. I think it’s working but I’m not sure what I should be seeing.

For comments left by a test user I created, I get this when I try to post a comment:
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

For the original comment which comes with the default install, I get the opportunity to comment, although it goes into the moderation queue.

“i’ve noticed all users have the ability to edit eachother’s blogs by default.”

Yikes really? Not good. I suppose the apparently non-killable comment moderation feature/bug would throw this into the lap of the admin, but is there really no GUI-settable user setting to limit users’ ability to edit eachothers’ blog?

I installed WP on a separate Mac, this time with no spam words, at the suggestion of someone posting on a different topic here.

Same result: comment moderation is toggled off, and set it up so anyone could post but comments go into the moderation queue. I enabled any registered user to post without moderation, registered myself as a separate user, same result.

WordPress Wizards, I’m sure that in many organizational setups, the head blogger will want to pre-approve certain co-bloggers to post without moderation. So this is an issue worth addressing.

Doh! Solved. I can log in now and see the bloggy things.

My problem was not a wordpress issue, but a PHP/Apache issue.
index.php must be in the DirectoryIndex section of httpd.conf
otherwise, and if indexing is enabled, if there’s no index.html page, you just get the directory index.

My first (successful) WP installation was on OSX server. I think when I activated PHP through the GUI, it dealt with the DirectoryIndex. This second install is on OSX not-server, and it had to be handled manually.

Still puzzled about permissions though. Seems like the scripts shouldn’t work, as no one has +x permission.

I have the opposite issue (so do others) — can’t seem to get comment moderation to turn off.

Meanwhile, hoping this will be resolved eventually, I also set it to place any comments with 0+ links in the queue. When I update that setting, the “0” does not display in the box – the box is empty. Does this mean that setting was unsuccessful? Is “1” the minimum?

Thank you for the feedback.
My siteurl seems correct: https://mydomain.xxx.xxx/wp
(I gather it can’t be localhost? which the auto-install chooses)
I noticed the php scripts do not have execute permission.
Oddly, they don’t have execute permission on the other Mac, where WP is working nicely. Not even for the owner. So I’m wondering why *that* is working.

What did you change it to? It might help me too.

This is my second install (different computer).
First install went without incident.

Second install seemed to go fine, but the page that says ‘success! now log in’ takes me upon log in to a directory index. If I specifically type in the wp-login.php URL, I get another directory index.
Not a bloggy look.

I have phpmyadmin – please tell me what you changed wp_options to?

p.s. to above, yes I am reading the docs – they are sketchy though.

“Does your blacklist have any / characters of single letters?”

I’m not sure I understand this, but there are no “/” in the list, or single-letter items. It’s the built-in list plus words I added. It’s not a plug-in, if I understand the distinction. It came with WP.

I don’t remember if I had this comment moderation problem before I started using the blacklist. I wonder if the blacklist is the issue. I will just have to study the scripts.

I’m really doing this for my boss. He’s the one who will have to approve posts, which I think he will get tired of fast, although he will want to be able to edit or delete them after the fact. Does anyone know what level of user I should make him, to be able to publish and immediately see his posts, and to have edit/delete power over others? I don’t want to give him admin level.

Same issue here. Using WordPress 1.2.2 on OSX (server version, 10.3.7), PHP 4.3.2.
I liked the ease of installation very very much.
I wish there were more systematic documentation.
Have checked “allow to post” and unchecked comment moderation, but postings still do not appear on the blog, and only by logging in as Admin and going to the Edit tab do I see the postings waiting for approval.
My spam word list has no blank lines.