Syed Balkhi

Peter Wilson

<h3>Comment Moderation Role by WPBeginner</h3>
<p>This comment moderation plugin improves the comment moderation permissions on your WordPress site.</p>
<p>The new role “WPB Comment Moderator” is created on your site to allow you to give users access only to the comment moderation screen. Unlike the WordPress default settings, a comment moderator is not required to be able to author posts, so you can keep your content secure.</p>
<p>The Comment Moderator can approve, decline, or edit any comments on any post.</p>
<p>This plugin also allows your Authors and Contributors to moderate comments on the posts they wrote. That means your guest authors can continue interacting with their readers, without getting access to other articles or comments.</p>
<h3>How Do I Create a Comment Moderator User?</h3>
<p>Once this plugin is activated, simply edit a user’s profile and change their role to WPB Comment Moderator. This will grant them access only to the comment moderation screens within WordPress, keeping the rest of your site secure.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Comment Moderation Role is created by the <a href="https://www.wpbeginner.com/" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WPBeginner</a> team.</p>
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Comment Moderation Role by WPBeginner

Add a new comment moderator user role to your site.

Ronald Huereca

<p>Allow your users to edit their comments and WooCommerce reviews for a period of time.</p>
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<p>Go Pro for a lot more control over the comment editing experience, including front-end moderation capabilities, and unlimited logged-in editing. <a href="https://dlxplugins.com/plugins/comment-edit-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Find out more…</a></p>
<p><a href="https://docs.dlxplugins.com/v/comment-edit-lite/" rel="nofollow ugc">Getting Started</a> | <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/DLXPlugins" rel="nofollow ugc">Sponsor Us</a> | <a href="https://dlxplugins.com/plugins/comment-edit-lite/" rel="nofollow ugc">Comment Edit Core Home</a></p>
<h3>Comment Edit Core features</h3>
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin. That’s it. It just works.
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<li>Anonymous users can edit comments for 5 minutes.</li>
<li>No styling is necessary. For advanced customization, see the “Other Notes” section.</li>
<li>Advanced customization can be achieved using filters.</li>
<li>Add Mailchimp to your comment form and get email subscribers through comments.</li>
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<h3>Get more with Comment Edit Pro</h3>
<p>For additional features in addition to comment editing, please check out <a href="https://dlxplugins.com/plugins/comment-edit-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Comment Edit Pro</a>.</p>
<p>Features Include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Newsletter integration with Mailchimp, ConvertKit, Flodesk, and MailerLite</li>
<li>Community features including @ Mentions, Comment Avatars, and Comment Character Control</li>
<li>Automations with Webhooks to connect to services like Zapier and other automation tools</li>
<li>Spam/bot protection add-ons with reCAPTCHA Enterprise or Cloudflare Turnstile support</li>
<li>Comment shortcuts and front-end moderation tools</li>
<li>Set comment rules per post type</li>
<li>Set comments to expire based on activity</li>
<li>Get notified of new and edited comments with the Slack integration</li>
<li><a href="https://dlxplugins.com/plugins/comment-edit-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Find out more…</a></li>
</ul>
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<p><a href="https://app.instawp.io/launch?t=comment-edit-pro&d=v2" rel="nofollow ugc">Launch a Live Demo of Comment Edit Pro on InstaWP</a></p>
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Comment Edit Core – Simple Comment Editing

The plugin works as advertised, but it's editor shows HTML code, and not easy to edit comments.

And support appears almost non-existent. Those are the reasons for this 2-star rating.

I'll be looking for an alternative - or maybe crafting my own. 

Good Plugin, Lousy Support


When it works, I'm really happy with what it offers and how it is coded. But it does not work if you have a theme or plugin which anonymizes the IPs of commenters before they are stored. I made a support request, and added to it myself 3 times, but the author never commented - even though I have supplied the one-line solution myself: Insert into simple-comment-editing.php as line 1095 (in plugin version 2.6.0) $comment_author_ip = apply_filters( 'pre_comment_user_ip', $comment_author_ip ); This runs the anonymize filter before using the IP values in the hash function. Then it all works. I provided the fix a couple of weeks before the version 2.6.0 was released, and so now I'm very disappointed and can't understand why the fix did not make it into the new release. Will be very glad to amend my review if the fix is soon incorporated. Independently of all that, thanks to Ronald for providing and maintaining a great plugin!



Update: Ronald fixed this in the version released 2021-07-02 - many thanks!


Great plugin, but support can be a bit slow

Allow your users to edit their comments for a period of time. Adjust the comment timer and save some admin headaches.

Comment Moderation Role by WPBeginner vs Comment Edit Core – Simple Comment Editing