you can use comment_unapproved_to_approved action hook to call your function which will use a commentmeta field to count how many times that comment has been approved or by how many users and if it’s less then 3 then we updated the comment to not approved : update I’m posting an updated code in the form … Read more
There’s a great article explaining how to hook into 2 filters for this at https://web.archive.org/web/20200216075253/http://www.sourcexpress.com/customize-wordpress-comment-notification-emails/ To send your notifications to a particular user and not the site admin, try this for a user with ID 123: function se_comment_moderation_recipients( $emails, $comment_id ) { $comment = get_comment( $comment_id ); $post = get_post( $comment->comment_post_ID ); $user = get_user_by( … Read more
This is a partial answer, because as I mentioned in my comment I’m not sure why your code is requiring two ‘really bad words’ at the moment. It’s also an untested attempt. I’ll deal with your first question: how to send a user back to the posts page and display a suitable error message, rather … Read more
I would probably either use GravityForms or CForms plugins to allow that, both have a “form to post” feature that creates a new post and lets the admin moderate it before publishing.