Separate blog and reviews categories

Sounds like you’re sharing the default category taxonomy for both of your post types. When you want separate categories per post type, you would need to create a custom taxonomy for your review posts. Please check out the register_taxonomy function in the WordPress developers documentation. https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_taxonomy/ See below an example of a custom taxonomy. add_action( … Read more

Users moderate own comments

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/ This plugin is great for fine tuned control of content. I have not, however, tried what you are requesting. So I can only suggest it as something to look into…. I’m not sure if it gives such fine tuned control over comments….