Maybe I don’t understand your question correctly, but… I think there’s an option that does exactly what you need… If you log in as Administrator and go to Settings->Discussion you should see this option “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”.
A WordPress Nonce, while not a true nonce, functions similarly in that it exists to secure a form or page from unauthorized access and abuse. By default, the WordPress Comment Form only displays a nonce field if the current user has the unfiltered_html capability. So, if the form is implemented with standard procedures, all you … Read more
or should this be ‘Tom & Jerry’? It doesn’t really matter. It’s more important to consider if you don’t know where the comment content is coming from. If you’re inserting user input as the comment content then this should be escaped. wp_new_comment() escapes and sanititizes the comment for you. It’s designed to take the user … Read more
After thinking about this a little bit, I guess that the proper way to ensure that your comments are properly escaped, is by doing something like this: $the_comment = get_comment_text(); echo ‘<p>’ . esc_html($the_comment) . ‘</p>’; Instead of simply using the function like this: comment_text(); Why even have these handy functions in the first place, … Read more
I am also having this issue, haven’t found any solutions for it, apart from just plain ‘ol removing the placeholder attribute : / it seems to occur in any browser. I am using a JavaScript fallback for browsers that dont support the placeholder attrib, but with or without it, wordpress seems to pick up the … Read more
I think your best bet is to take a look at Otto’s post all about the comment form and functions, here: http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-theme-tip-the-comment-form/ If you want to cut to the chase, you can add this function to your functions.php: function my_fields($fields) { $fields[‘new’] = ‘<p>Some new input field here</p>’; return $fields; } add_filter(‘comment_form_default_fields’,’my_fields’); Then set new … Read more
Karma is a relic. Unused. Agent is the browser agent of the person who left the comment. Like saying they use firefox or IE or whatever. Comment type is either “comment” (or blank for the default case) or “pingback” or “trackback”, basically. You can have custom types, however they generally won’t show up as comments … Read more
Yes. That will be sufficient. And I highly recommend that you activate the Akismet plugin to block spam. Probably if you think there might be any genuine comments in the 13k pending ones, then install and activate Akismet first. Then go to Comments in the WordPress Dashboard, and click on ‘Check for Spam’. It should … Read more
get_comments( array( ‘number’ => ‘1’) ); See http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_comments
Adjust the amount of visible comments in the Screen Options: