Ordinarily WordPress only allows Editors and Administrators to moderate comments, and both roles require those capabilities. This page from the Codex does an excellent job of explaining roles and capabilities: https://wordpress.org/support/article/roles-and-capabilities/ You can manually create a new Role and assign to it only the capabilities you want the Role to have, so that those you … Read more
Draft / schedule comments?
Simply go to Settings > Discussion > Other comment settings > then look for the pull-down menu that will let you reverse the order. As per this video: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/New-comments-first.webm
There’s a different posts and comments table per site, so not really. That said, you can and should keep track of blog ids they’ve commented on in a user meta to speed things up in the first round, and cache the formatted result in a separate usermeta to speed things up in subsequent rounds. These … Read more
The background is transparent, so it just inherits the styling of the parent comment.. Style the comment class.. #comments li.comment { background-color: #fff /* Default styling */ } Then do the more specific styling as you go down.. #comments li.odd { /* whatever */ } /* Style odd numbered comments */ #comments li.even { /* … Read more
See. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_comments Set the orderby parameter to your desired value, possible values are. comment_agent comment_approved comment_author comment_author_email comment_author_IP comment_author_url comment_content comment_date comment_date_gmt comment_ID comment_karma comment_parent comment_post_ID comment_type user_id Refer to the link already provided for info on setting other parameters, and general examples.
Remove DISTINCT And add GROUP BY $wpdb->posts.ID before ‘ORDER BY’
There a a few plugins that allow visitors to report comments AJAX Report Comments Safe Report Comments
You can turn off the discussion per post/page when you’re creating new posts/pages. this option is usually below the text editor and is often hidden. In order to bring it up, you might have to click on “Screen Options” at the top of the page and check the box next to “Discussion”
Technically, you could, but it wouldn’t make sense to do this. A ping isn’t a comment. Nobody wrote on your blog. It’s simply notification from a ping-enabled site that shows that site linked to your post. The site that included your link might be a scrapper site, a spammer, or someone who legitimately refers to … Read more