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Comment Moderation/Notification Recipients

Control who will receive new comment and moderation notifications. Light weight, simple, safe and effective.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.9
Current version0.7
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.9
Minimum stackWP 3.7 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update3 Sept 20262mo ago
Active installations1K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 4 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Comment Moderation/Notification Recipients version 0.7 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 6.9.

Overview

About this plugin

Normally, when a comment gets submitted to a particular post, the author of that post gets a notification about it. And when a comment is held for moderation (which depends on your sites comment settings) then the moderation notification is sent to both the post Author (if he/she has moderation rights) and the site’s Administration E-mail Address as configured under Settings > General at the same time.

On colaboration sites or sites managed by a webmaster or designer where the client is the post author, the site admin, with enough on his/her mind already, is bothered with each and every new comment in the moderation queue.

This plugin can change that.

Just install and activate it: All post comment moderation notifications will be sent only to each respective Post Author. If, by any chance, the post author has no moderation rights (Contributor level) or there is no valid author e-mail set then the default site e-mail address will still get the notification.

WordPress Multisite compatible, per-site or network activated or as a must-use plugin.

Plugin Settings

php file.

php file, just above the line that sais: /* That's all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */.

These constants are currently available:

  • COMMENT_NOTIFICATION_RECIPIENTS – Controls the New Comment recipients. Default: “wp_default” corresponds with “post_author_only” WordPress default.
  • COMMENT_MODERATION_RECIPIENTS – Controls the Comment is waiting for Moderation message recipients. Default: “post_author_only”.

These options are currently available:

  • wp_default – The WordPress default behavior. Plugin does nothing.
  • post_author_only – Send notifications only to the Post Author e-mail address.
  • site_admin_only – Send notifications only to the Administration Email Address as configured on Settings > General.

Examples:

Use define( 'COMMENT_NOTIFICATION_RECIPIENTS', 'site_admin_only' ); to make new comment notifications go to the site admin e-mail address, and no longer the post author.

Use define( 'COMMENT_MODERATION_RECIPIENTS', 'post_author_only' ); to make comment moderation notifications only go to the authors e-mail address, and no longer the site administrator address (unless the post author does not have moderation rights).

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • comment moderation recipients
  • comment notification
  • comments
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.9

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.9.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.9
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.7 · PHP not listed
Update activity3 Sept 20262mo ago

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