Rehan Adil

<p>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.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>AI-Powered Sentiment Analysis</strong> – Uses OpenAI’s GPT-4o-mini for accurate tone detection</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Moderation</strong> – Hold negative comments for review based on configurable strictness levels</li>
<li><strong>Hybrid Tone Approach</strong> – Combines predefined tones with AI-suggested new tones</li>
<li><strong>Comprehensive Analytics</strong> – View sentiment breakdown by post and overall statistics</li>
<li><strong>Dashboard Widget</strong> – 30-day sentiment summary right on your WordPress dashboard</li>
<li><strong>Comments Table Integration</strong> – See tone badges directly in your Comments admin table</li>
<li><strong>Posts Table Integration</strong> – View average sentiment for each post at a glance</li>
<li><strong>Advanced Caching</strong> – Minimizes API costs by caching sentiment results</li>
<li><strong>Detailed Logging</strong> – Track all API calls, errors, and moderation decisions</li>
<li><strong>Configurable Strictness Levels</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Low</strong> – Only hold Toxic and Angry comments</li>
<li><strong>Medium</strong> – Hold Toxic, Angry, and Sarcastic comments (Recommended)</li>
<li><strong>High</strong> – Hold all except Friendly, Questioning, and Neutral</li>
<li><strong>Custom</strong> – 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>
<p>This plugin connects to OpenAI to analyze comment sentiment.</p>
<p>Service: OpenAI API<br />
– Purpose: Analyze comment tone and return a sentiment classification.<br />
– Data sent: Comment text and (optionally) the post title for context.<br />
– When sent: On comment submission or when comments are re-analyzed.<br />
– Service URL: https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions<br />
– Terms of Service: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use<br />
– Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy</p>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>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.</p>


MoodModerator – AI Comment Moderation & Sentiment Analysis

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

FolioVision

<p>We’ve always found the comment moderation/management a bit weak (no wonder so many people are using the Disqus crutch). Our plugin Thoughtful Comments supercharges comment moderation by moving it into the front end (i.e. in context). It also allows banning by IP, email address or domain.</p>
<p>Unlike many comment plugins, Thoughtful Comments works hand in hand with Akismet, feeding all the information into Akismet as well as the existing WordPress whitelist and blacklist features.</p>
<p>What’s cool about Thoughtful Comments is that you can add it to a WordPress site with no changes to existing comment moderation tables and you can remove it from a WordPress site with no loss of core functionality. I.e. I think Thoughtful Comments could be integrated into core with a minimum amount of pain. Thoughtful Comments works with all current Subscribe to Comment plugins as well. As we use all core functions and tables, Thoughtful Comments works with all current Subscribe to Comment plugins as well.</p>
<p>Thoughtful Comments is the most powerful and useful code we’ve ever written (we have four very popular plugins). It’s integration into core would save many, many site owners the pain of Disqus.</p>
<p>Thoughtful Comments is entirely stable and active on some of the most heavily commented political and lifestyle sites in the world.</p>
<p>While Automattic has a horse in the ring (Intense Debate), we’d really like to see Thoughtful Comments included in core.</p>
<h3>Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Front-end comment moderation – for logged in users with required permission</li>
<li>Unapproved comments shown in front-end – for logged in users with required permission</li>
<li>Per-user moderation settings</li>
<li>Comment caching – lightening PHP load and speeding up busy sites significantly – works with any WP cache plugin!</li>
</ul>
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<p><a href="http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/thoughtful-comments/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support</a> | <a href="http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/thoughtful-comments/changelog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Change Log</a> | <a href="http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/thoughtful-comments/installation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Installation</a> | <a href="http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/thoughtful-comments/usage/" rel="nofollow ugc">Usage</a></p>
<h3>Theme compatibility</h3>
<p>If you want to get the most correct display when deleting a comment and preserving it’s replies, you need to use a theme which is using “cascade” display of the comments instead of “nested” display.</p>
<p>Thoughtful Comments assumes that each comment is contained in some HTML element with unique ID which is containing the comment ID, so it works with most of the themes.</p>
<p>Also, commenter name should not be in cite tag, so that the HTML highlight will appear properly and not as readable HTML (similar to code tag).</p>


FV Thoughtful Comments

FV Thoughtful Comments adds front end comment moderation including sophisticated banning mechanisms. Say Goodbye to Disqus!

MoodModerator – AI Comment Moderation & Sentiment Analysis vs FV Thoughtful Comments