Comments on: WP Plugin: Notify Author on Comment Moderation

By: Weltschmerz · Resolving “comment-goes-to-admin-not-author” WP issue

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:26:04 +0000

[...] we‘ve found Mark Ghosh’s extension that does exactly what we need: emails the comment to authors for approval. The extension [...]

By: maria

maria — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:04:14 +0000

Mark,
What a perfect little plug-in!

By: WP Plugins DB » Plugin Details » Moderation Notify Author

WP Plugins DB » Plugin Details » Moderation Notify Author — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:57:46 +0000

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HTMLHelp.blog : The HTMLHelp.blog Theme and Plugin Page — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:59:35 +0000

[...] Moderation Notify Author - Automatically notifys the author of a comment that it is awaiting moderation. By Mark Ghosh. [...]

By: John Pozadzides

John Pozadzides — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:53:09 +0000

Mark,

I noticed one tiny thing that might be useful to change in this plugin. In the WP Plugin listing page the title of this plugin links to the main page of this site rather than to this specific plugin page. This makes it a little difficult for users to come back and check for updates to the plugin.

Take care,

John

By: Jani

Jani — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:58:11 +0000

Notify Author on Comment Moderation (tags: wordpress plugin) [â€¦]

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Skylog » Blog Archive » links for 2007-03-17 — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:39:03 +0000

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By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:04:33 +0000

Yeah - that thought did strike me when I started to write the idea up for me own blog

Oh well.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:56:14 +0000

Jim and Dan: That is not necessarily a good idea. Can you imagine how bogged your server would be if you ran into a comment spam flood? In addition, you could run into email spam/blacklist possibilities if you started sending out unsolicited emails. I know because I ran into this on a blog that I commented on. If I do not ask to be emailed, I would rather not get an email from you.

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Overenthusiastic Spam Filtering - Techsplosive — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:48:06 +0000

[...] Mark at Weblog Tools Collection posted this plugin, and I had an [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:37:00 +0000

That’s exactly what I thought this plugin did, hence my confusion on the subject.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:29:51 +0000

A useful spin off from this would be a plugin that emails the comment author (so the visitor to your site, not one of the site’s authors) to thank them for their comment, and to tell them that their comment is in moderation. That would go some way to helping with the problems described here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r.....101840482/

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:49:22 +0000

Oh, I misunderstood. This plugin is for blogs that have multiple authors. Somehow, the way I read this was that this plugin was a courtesy plugin for comment authors who end up with comments in moderation. My bad…

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:44:01 +0000

The plugin checks to see if the author of the post is also the admin of the blog. If that is not the case, it sends out an email to the author of the blog when a comment needs to be moderated.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:22:01 +0000

The header errors are no more, but I can’t tell if it’s sending an email to the comment author. I used one of my own alternate email addresses for the test comment but haven’t seen a notification email come up for it. How does the plugin judge comment author - email address, author name, or IP address?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:02:55 +0000

It definitely does Jim. I have updated the plugin, could you please try and upload it again?

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:18:00 +0000

Ok, I tested it out on two different instances of WordPress:

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Warning: Missing argument 2 for wp_notify_mod_author() in /home/opendial/public_html/test/wp-content/plugins/modnotifyauthor.php on line 12

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/opendial/public_html/test/wp-content/plugins/modnotifyauthor.php:12) in /home/opendial/public_html/test/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 275

Plugins in use: Angusman’s Authenticated WordPress Plugin, Exec-PHP, WP-Contact-Form III (It even yields the same errors when I disable all the plugins. I’m running WP 2.1.2 in all cases.)

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Warning: Missing argument 2 for wp_notify_mod_author() in /home/opendial/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/modnotifyauthor.php on line 12

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/opendial/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/modnotifyauthor.php:12) in /home/opendial/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/ajax-comments/ajax-comments.php on line 193

Plugins in use: a lot (42 total), though it seems that AJAX Comments is one in particular that’s in conflict here.

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Hope that helps.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:11:32 +0000

JIm, that is very strange (unless there is an empty line at the end of the file that you uploaded). Could you email me the complete content of the error please? Thanks.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:00:47 +0000

This one kicks back a ‘Cannot modify header’ error relating to line 2 for me. Not really sure why. It does, at least, add the comment, but it mucks the comments section up a bit until the page is refreshed.

By: Atanas Yanev

Atanas Yanev — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:46:17 +0000

Thanks Mark
Simple and useful