Comment Inbox « Tempus Fugit by Mark Jaquith

Comment Inbox

Comment management in WordPress isn’t too hard when you manually approve each comment. You know which comments you’ve seen, and which you haven’t. The only downside is that you have to approve the comments before they appear. Comment Inbox gives you the ease of the moderation queue with the freedom of unmoderated comments. It’s a better way to deal with spam and bacn on your blog.

Here’s how it works:

All comments except caught spam go into moderation (renamed “Comment Inbox”)
All comments in your Comment Inbox immediately show up on the blog — so conversations don’t wait on your moderation skills
There are three actions that can be performed on comments in your Comment Inbox: Archive (i.e. mark as read), Spam, Delete
When your Comment Inbox is empty, you can rest easy knowing you’ve dealt with all your new comments

For the history of this plugin, please see The Comment Inbox.

Download

Latest version: Download Comment Inbox v0.3 [zip]

This plugin has been downloaded 2369 times.

Installation

Download and unzip
Upload comment-inbox.php to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate it from within the WordPress admin interface.
Recommended: Turn OFF moderation e-mail notification in Options/Settings » Discussion
Done! Now every new incoming comment will go into your Comment Inbox (former known as the moderation queue). All comments (except spam) will appear on the blog immediately. Comments in the Comment Inbox can be archived (i.e. marked as “read”), spammed, or deleted.

FAQ

Q. I can’t disable the “An administrator must always approve the comment” option!
A. This is intentional… it is how we funnel all comments into the Comment Inbox. Ignore the wording. All non-spam comments appear on the blog immediately.

Q. How do I stop all the “you have a comment awaiting moderation” e-mails?
A. Go to Options/Settings > Discussion and uncheck the “[E-mail me whenever...] A comment is held for moderation” box.

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Jeff says:

Mar 27th, 2008 at 5:19 am

This plugin is great. With a few others it makes reactive moderation a MUCH friendlier option on wordpress.

One problem, however, is that calls to comments_number() and similar functions fail — here’s an additional function to make it set the comment counts correctly:

function cws_ci_fix_count($post_id, $new, $old) {
global $wpdb, $comment_count_cache;
$new = (int) $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_post_ID = ‘$post_id’ AND (comment_approved = ‘1′ OR comment_approved = ‘0′)”);
$wpdb->query(“UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET comment_count = ‘$new’ WHERE ID = ‘$post_id’”);
$comment_count_cache[$post_id] = $new;
}
add_filter( ‘wp_update_comment_count’, ‘cws_ci_fix_count’ );

I bet that’s going to be ugly…

Reply to Jeff →

Mar 27th, 2008 at 6:23 am

Spoke too soon, that filter isn’t good enough to catch it, this works instead.

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function cws_ci_fix_count($comment_ID) {
global $wpdb, $comment_count_cache;
$post_id = (int) $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT comment_post_ID FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_ID = ‘$comment_ID’”);
$new = (int) $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_post_ID = ‘$post_id’ AND (comment_approved = ‘1′ OR comment_approved = ‘0′)”);
$wpdb->query(“UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET comment_count = ‘$new’ WHERE ID = ‘$post_id’”);
$comment_count_cache[$post_id] = $new;
}
add_filter( ‘comment_post’, ‘cws_ci_fix_count’ );

Li-An (subscribed) says:

Mar 28th, 2008 at 3:59 am

I get a try but it did not work like I thought. All the comments went in the moderation box (included the authorized ones) and people get a 403 error while their comments did not show on the blog…

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Mark says:

Apr 24th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

Thanks, Jeff. The next version will contain a fix for that issue!

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Ianne (subscribed) says:

Feb 16th, 2009 at 11:14 am

Hi,
Is this compatible with Wordpress 2.7?

Thanks.

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filimleri (subscribed) says:

Apr 8th, 2009 at 2:06 am

very good comment inbox version

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Kate (subscribed) says:

Apr 19th, 2009 at 5:00 pm

Thanks for this plug-in! The link from wordpress.org to the Plug-in Homepage” is wrong– it points to:
txfx.net/code/wordpress/the-comment-inbox/, with an extra “the-.”

As it turns out, the error allowed me to see your very excellent 404 page and it made me smile. Maybe you should not have them correct it after all!

Reply to Kate →

Apr 19th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

Question– since installing the PlugIn I no longer get any e-mail notification of comments. I tried changing the two e-mail settings, but my tests sent no e-mail at all. What do I need to do?

Apr 19th, 2009 at 9:02 pm

Please disregard previous question–it appears to have worked itself out–maybe I didn’t refresh the page or something?! Anyway–it’s working great! Thanks