Mark Jaquith

Comment management in WordPress isn’t too hard when you manually approve each comment. You know which comments you’ve seen, and which you haven’t. The only downside is that you have to approve the comments before they appear. Comment Inbox gives you the ease of the moderation queue with the freedom of unmoderated comments. It’s a better way to deal with spam and bacn on your blog.
Here’s how it works:
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<li>All comments except caught spam go into moderation (renamed “Comment Inbox”)</li>
<li>All comments in your Comment Inbox immediately show up on the blog — so conversations don’t wait on your moderation skills</li>
<li>There are three actions that can be performed on comments in your Comment Inbox: Archive (i.e. mark as read), Spam, Delete</li>
<li>When your Comment Inbox is empty, you can rest easy knowing you’ve dealt with all your new comments</li>
</ul>
For the history of this plugin, please see <a href="http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/the-comment-inbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">The Comment Inbox</a>.

Comment Inbox

Enables a "Comment Inbox" that gives you the power of a moderation queue without having to manually approve every comment.

Seth Alling

Up until recently, WordPress gave two options: You could either disable comments and trackbacks by default for all pages and posts, or you could have them active by default. In WordPress version 4.3, this finally changed so comments are always disabled on new pages.
While the new change makes it easier for many of the sites, it make it harder for people who need to get the reverse and enable comments on all pages, or if they need to change the default for a custom post type. This plugin allows you to choose whether comments are enabled or disabled by default on all new posts, pages and custom post types, while still giving the ability to individually enable comments on posts or pages.
Also, this plugin provides a way to quickly disable all comments or pingbacks for a specific custom post type. It directly interacts with your database to modify the status, so it is highly recommended that you backup your database first. There shouldn’t be any issues using this feature, but it’s always good to play it safe.
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No Page Comment

An admin interface to control the default comment and trackback settings on new posts, pages and custom post types.

Comment Inbox vs No Page Comment