Title: Auto Approve Comments
Author: Federico Andrioli
Published: <strong>3 ธันวาคม 2015</strong>
Last modified: 15 มิถุนายน 2021

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Auto Approve Comments

 By [Federico Andrioli](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fedeandri/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/auto-approve-comments.2.8.zip)

 * [Details](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/auto-approve-comments/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/auto-approve-comments/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/auto-approve-comments/#installation)
 * [Development](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/auto-approve-comments/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/auto-approve-comments/)

## Description

Auto approve comments by Commenter (email, name, url), User and Role (Akismet and
wpDiscuz compatible).

**Usage**

 1. Open Comments -> Auto Approve Comments
 2. Go to Settings -> Discussion and check “Comment must be manually approved”
 3. Optionally install and activate Akismet (comments flagged as SPAM will never get
    auto approved)
 4. Configure your auto approval filters in “Commenters”, “Users” and “Roles”
 5. Save and you’re done

From now on all the comments that match at least one of the configurations in “Commenters”,“
Users” or “Roles” will always be auto approved.

**Commenters – example**

Add one Commenter per line, follow the example below:

    ```
    tom@myface.com
    tom@myface.com,Tom
    tom@myface.com,www.myface.com
    tom@myface.com,www.myface.com,Tom
    tom@myface.com,Tom,www.myface.com
    ```

**Users – example**

Add one Username per line, follow the example below:

    ```
    steveknobs76
    jeffmezos012
    larrymage98
    marktuckerberg2004
    ```

**Roles – example**

Add one Role per line, follow the example below:

    ```
    contributor
    editor
    yourcustomrole
    subscriber
    ```

**Developers**

Official Github repository:
 https://github.com/fedeandri/auto-approve-comments

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Commenters tab
 * [[
 * Users tab
 * [[
 * Roles tab

## Installation

 1. Unzip the plugin file auto-approve-comments.zip
 2. Upload the unzipped folder “auto-approve-comments” to the `/wp-content/plugins/`
    directory of your WordPress blog/website
 3. เปิดใช้ปลั๊กอินผ่านทางเมนู ‘ปลั๊กอิน’ ในเวิร์ดเพรส

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/652442e9caf6bb9574a856c63022f5902877a980af20d6eaa8d1fe2b0fdb702c?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Intermediately works.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seems-to-work-39/)󠁿

 [aptharsia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aptharsia/) 1 กุมภาพันธ์ 2020

Doesn’t work all the time.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[This is not automatic. You have to select users to be approved.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-is-not-automatic-you-have-to-select-users-to-be-approved/)󠁿

 [lestado](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lestado/) 1 ตุลาคม 2019 1 reply

Selecting users to be auto approved for comments is not the same as AUTO APPROVING
ALL COMMENTS. I feel like the name of this plugin is deceptive. Wordpress already
has the option to auto approve anyone who’s had 1 post approved and I think this
plugin basically does the same thing.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8e347c269dd56567539edb0eab14d6e7792d4b1a7a0ca048e0742fafeb707c6b?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Simplement parfais](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplement-parfais/)󠁿

 [patprov](https://profiles.wordpress.org/patprov/) 1 มิถุนายน 2018

Tout est dans le titre fonctionne avec WP 4.9.6 Je vous lais que les membres de 
mon association aient leurs commentaires auto-approuvés et contrôler les autres,
il rempli parfaitement son rôle. Si plusieurs roles sont prédéfini, bien mettre 
le rôle et l’identifiaint ou l’adresse mail.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d817fe51715b57101dc157817638d7678df82b09c4f8863ffdf47c23d305ba72?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Not working for me](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-for-me-185/)󠁿

 [Eric Armstrong](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aeric325/) 1 มิถุนายน 2017

With WordPress 4.75, the options to select users and roles do not working. Clicking
on the tabs does nothing. Prior to that, I selected myself as the user, and still
had to approve every cross-link as a user. Just took my site public, and for some
reason I’m not seeing any cross-links at all as comments. (Probably has nothing 
to do with the plugin. There must be a setting that changed somewhere.) There is
no support tab for this plugin, so I’m forced to put these comments into a review—
otherwise, I would have sent in the bug reports first. It’s a great idea, though.
And was working after a fashion before the WordPress upgrade, so there is still 
hope for it. Will revise this review as conditions warrant.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great Work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-work-496/)󠁿

 [umairgull](https://profiles.wordpress.org/umairgull/) 27 มีนาคม 2017

Developer did great work

 [ Read all 6 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/auto-approve-comments/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Auto Approve Comments” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Federico Andrioli ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fedeandri/)

[Translate “Auto Approve Comments” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/auto-approve-comments)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auto-approve-comments/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/auto-approve-comments/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/auto-approve-comments/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/auto-approve-comments/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.8

 * Adds a notice when trying to save while current nonce is expired
 * Adds the settings page link on plugins page
 * Better script loading chain
 * Minor fixes and code refactoring

#### 2.7

 * Updates the test to check if jQuery is loaded
 * Fixes a minor CSS issue

#### 2.6

 * Better Akismet integration (comments flagged as SPAM will never get auto approved)

#### 2.5

 * Redesigns the settings page for better usability
 * Guarantees compatibility with Akismet
 * Guarantees compatibility with wpDiscuz
 * Adds a test to check if jQuery is loaded

#### 2.1

 * Adds auto approval by role
 * Fixes a bug that prevented to approve a commenter if only the email was configured
 * Updates the email validation pattern to allow a wider set of charatcters

#### 2.0

 * Updates “save and refresh” via AJAX
 * Adds nonce when saving changes
 * Adds admin UI success/error notice
 * Adds feedback when there are no suggestions
 * Some cleaning and refactoring

#### 1.5

 * Adds new tabbed interface
 * Changes Users ID list to Usernames list
 * Adds commenters suggestion field
 * Adds usernames suggestion field
 * Auto remove duplicates

#### 1.2

 * Adds better input validation

#### 1.1

 * Auto approve comments based on commenter’s email, name, URL and User ID

#### 1.0

 * First version, auto approve comments based on commenter’s email

## Meta

 *  Version **2.8**
 *  Last updated **5 ปี ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.8.13**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-approve-comments/)
 * Tags
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## Ratings

 3.2 out of 5 stars.

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 *  [  1 2-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/auto-approve-comments/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/auto-approve-comments/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Federico Andrioli ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fedeandri/)

## Support

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