Rehan Adil

MoodModerator is a powerful WordPress plugin that uses artificial intelligence to analyze the sentiment of comments on your website. It automatically detects the tone of comments (Friendly, Toxic, Sarcastic, Questioning, Angry, Neutral, etc.) and can automatically hold negative comments for moderation.
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>AI-Powered Sentiment Analysis – Uses OpenAI’s GPT-4o-mini for accurate tone detection</li>
<li>Automatic Moderation – Hold negative comments for review based on configurable strictness levels</li>
<li>Hybrid Tone Approach – Combines predefined tones with AI-suggested new tones</li>
<li>Comprehensive Analytics – View sentiment breakdown by post and overall statistics</li>
<li>Dashboard Widget – 30-day sentiment summary right on your WordPress dashboard</li>
<li>Comments Table Integration – See tone badges directly in your Comments admin table</li>
<li>Posts Table Integration – View average sentiment for each post at a glance</li>
<li>Advanced Caching – Minimizes API costs by caching sentiment results</li>
<li>Detailed Logging – Track all API calls, errors, and moderation decisions</li>
<li>Configurable Strictness Levels:
<ul>
<li>Low – Only hold Toxic and Angry comments</li>
<li>Medium – Hold Toxic, Angry, and Sarcastic comments (Recommended)</li>
<li>High – Hold all except Friendly, Questioning, and Neutral</li>
<li>Custom – Choose specific tones to auto-hold</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<ol>
<li>When a comment is submitted, MoodModerator sends it to OpenAI for analysis</li>
<li>The AI returns a tone classification and confidence score</li>
<li>Based on your strictness settings, the plugin decides whether to hold the comment</li>
<li>Sentiment data is saved and displayed throughout the WordPress admin</li>
<li>You can review held comments and make final moderation decisions</li>
</ol>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or higher</li>
<li>OpenAI API key (<a href="https://platform.openai.com/api-keys" rel="nofollow ugc">Get one here</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third-Party Services</h3>
This plugin connects to OpenAI to analyze comment sentiment.
Service: OpenAI API 
– Purpose: Analyze comment tone and return a sentiment classification. 
– Data sent: Comment text and (optionally) the post title for context. 
– When sent: On comment submission or when comments are re-analyzed. 
– Service URL: https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions 
– Terms of Service: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use 
– Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
MoodModerator sends comment text to OpenAI’s API for sentiment analysis. Please review <a href="https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenAI’s privacy policy</a> to understand how they handle data. Comment text is only sent for analysis purposes and is not stored by OpenAI beyond their standard retention policies.
The plugin does not collect any user data beyond what’s necessary for comment analysis (comment text and optional post title for context). Site owners should disclose this third-party processing in their privacy policy.
<h3>Support</h3>
For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/moodmoderator/" rel="ugc">plugin support forum</a> or https://rehanadil.dev.

MoodModerator – AI Comment Moderation & Sentiment Analysis

Automatically detect and moderate negative comments using AI. Keep your WordPress community positive with intelligent comment moderation.

Rolf Allard van Hagen

Normally, when a comment gets submitted to a particular post, the author of that post gets a notification about it. And when a comment is held for moderation (which depends on your sites comment settings) then the moderation notification is sent to both the post Author (if he/she has moderation rights) and the site’s Administration E-mail Address as configured under Settings > General at the same time.
On colaboration sites or sites managed by a webmaster or designer where the client is the post author, the site admin, with enough on his/her mind already, is bothered with each and every new comment in the moderation queue.
This plugin can change that.
Just install and activate it: All post comment moderation notifications will be sent only to each respective Post Author. If, by any chance, the post author has no moderation rights (Contributor level) or there is no valid author e-mail set then the default site e-mail address will still get the notification.
WordPress Multisite compatible, per-site or network activated or as a must-use plugin.
Plugin Settings
Options will be added in the future but for now, you can only change the plugin behavior via constants in your wp-config.php file.
Add them on a new line in your wp-config.php file, just above the line that sais: <code>/* That's all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */</code>.
These constants are currently available:
<ol>
<li>COMMENT_NOTIFICATION_RECIPIENTS – Controls the New Comment recipients. Default: “wp_default” corresponds with “post_author_only” WordPress default.</li>
<li>COMMENT_MODERATION_RECIPIENTS – Controls the Comment is waiting for Moderation message recipients. Default: “post_author_only”.</li>
</ol>
These options are currently available:
<ol>
<li>wp_default – The WordPress default behavior. Plugin does nothing.</li>
<li>post_author_only – Send notifications only to the Post Author e-mail address.</li>
<li>site_admin_only – Send notifications only to the Administration Email Address as configured on Settings > General.</li>
</ol>
Examples:
Use <code>define( 'COMMENT_NOTIFICATION_RECIPIENTS', 'site_admin_only' );</code> to make new comment notifications go to the site admin e-mail address, and no longer the post author.
Use <code>define( 'COMMENT_MODERATION_RECIPIENTS', 'post_author_only' );</code> to make comment moderation notifications only go to the authors e-mail address, and no longer the site administrator address (unless the post author does not have moderation rights).

Comment Moderation/Notification Recipients

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Control who will receive new comment and moderation notifications. Light weight, simple, safe and effective.

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