Lew Ayotte

Ever had someone comment on a post on your site that is really old? With the Advanced Comment Control plugin you can automatically disable commenting on old posts, or only allow certain roles to comment on certain post types. This is one of the easiest ways to handle spam and trolls.
What can you do with the Advanced Comment Control plugin for WordPress?
<ul>
<li>Disable comments on select post types older than a certain date.</li>
<li>Disable comments on select post types with more than a set number of comments.</li>
<li>Disable pings/trackbacks on select post types older than a certain date.</li>
<li>Disable pings/trackbacks on select post types with more than a set number of comments.</li>
<li>Set roles that can always comment on select post types.</li>
<li>Set roles that can never comment on select post types.</li>
<li>Set rules for logged in or logged out users.</li>
</ul>
You can follow the development of this plugin at <a href="https://github.com/lewayotte/advanced-comment-control" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>!

Advanced Comment Control

Easily control who can comment and when they can comment on any post type.

ulfben

Pingbacks are automatic notifications added (as a kind of comment) to posts you link to in your articles. Whether a visitor is reading something way back in your archives or your most recent post, the pingbacks makes sure she can easily find any follow ups.
This is great for keeping related articles together, but private blogs are forced to disable Pingbacks to avoid notifying other sites when linking to them!
“Only Self Pings” solves this by only allowing pings to your own site (and whatever URLs you add to the whitelist).
//<a href="http://www.ulfben.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ulf Benjaminsson</a>
<h3>Additional Notes</h3>
Copyright (C) 2012 Ulf Benjaminsson (hello at my full name dot com).
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

Only Self Pings

Keep your site privacy and automatic pingbacks!

Advanced Comment Control vs Only Self Pings