your comment awaiting moderation message sometimes not appearing

I got around this by handling it all in JS / Jquery.

On a jQuery document ready clause I look for a specific type of anchor on page load and if that is present I assume that a message has just been posted. I then using jQuery display a nice little alert message up top of the page.

For the purpose of the sample code below I’ve used a standard JS alert function call to display the msg so you could alter this and make your own msg displaying function.

$(document).ready(function()  { 

    // check for comment posts
    if(window.location.hash) {
        var urlHash=window.location.hash;
        if(urlHash.indexOf('#comment-') === 0) {
            alert("Thank you for submitting your comment.  It will be reviewed and set live as soon as possible.);
        }
    }
});