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Updated Friday, February 20th, 2009 at 8:20pm

Specify the user level needed to skip comment moderation in WordPress

This simple WordPress hack allows you to specify the minimum user level needed to post comments without moderation. By default, WordPress allows administrators (and the author of the post) to skip moderation checks when posting comments, but it is easy to adjust this so that you can choose the user level yourself. This can be useful for those of you who have strict comment moderation enabled (manual comment approval), as it allows you to let registered users of your site post immediately without having to wait for approval.

Requirements

This code modification has been verified to work in WordPress versions 2.1 through 2.8+

Instructions

Open wp-includes/comment.php

For WordPress 2.1 through 2.7.x, Find the following code:

if ( $userdata && ( $user_id == $post_author || $user->has_cap('level_9') 
) ) {
  // The author and the admins get respect.
  $approved = 1;

For WordPress 2.8, Find the following code:

if ( isset($userdata) && ( $user_id == $post_author || $user->has_cap('moderate_comments') ) ) {
  // The author and the admins get respect.
  $approved = 1;

Then simply change level_9 to whatever user level you want. All users at or above the selected level will be able to post comments without requiring manual approval (if you have manual approval enabled).

For a complete list of the user levels, and their roles, please see this page from the WordPress codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

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    Ashok
    2-20-10 6:29PM

    Thanks, this helped a lot. You could be a little more clearer for noobs though.

    For WP 2.8 and 2.9 – replace moderate_comments with level_9 or whatever you want it to be :)

  4. 2
    Admin
    7-7-09 9:35PM

    The instructions above have been updated to work with WordPress 2.8

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    Admin
    2-22-09 11:13PM

    This code modification has been tested in the latest release of WordPress (2.7.1)

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