Jason Judge

This plugin was developed to meet a specific need: an organisation had members and non-members logging into 
the blogs. The requirement called for members to be able to comment without needing administrator approval. 
Non-members needed to get their comments approved before they were displayed.
So long as users are created with the correct role (e.g. “members” and “nonmembers” in this case) this 
plugin allows you to add the “Role Approved Comments” capability to any of those roles. If the role a 
user is in has that capability, then their comments will automatically be approved.
There is no administration screen for this plugin. You must use the 
<a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capsman/" rel="ugc">capsman</a> plugin to manage the capability. The capability 
will appear as “Role approved comment”.
This plugin does not affect any other rules you have set for approvals. For example, if comments are set 
to be auto-approved once a user has already got one approved comment through the system, then their 
subsequent comments will be approved regardless of the capability setting.
<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>

Role Approved Comment

This plugin will allow any specified role to have their comments automatically approved.

ianhaycox

Ian Stanley

To help reduce spam in bbPress forums, this plugin will change the status of new topics and 
replies to ‘pending’. Any pending topics/replies will be shown as ‘Awaiting Moderation’ until 
the administrator approves publishes them.
Features
<ul>
<li>Blog administrator can be notified of new topics and replies requiring moderation.</li>
<li>Anonymous postings can always be marked for moderation.</li>
<li>Registered users can post without moderation after the first topic/reply is approved.</li>
<li>A bubble counter is shown on the Topics and Replies menu to indicate the number of posts awaiting moderation.</li>
<li>Pending topics/replies are styled to give the submitting user a ‘hint’ that the new topic/reply is pending</li>
</ul>
Languages
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>German – Thanks – daveshine (David Decker)</li>
<li>Turkish – Thanks Mustafa Çoban</li>
<li>Spanish – Thanks Yo</li>
<li>The .pot file is shipped for other translations – [send them in email iandstanley at gmail dot com]</li>
</ul>
If you do download this plugin please come back and rate it. For any rating less than 5 stars 
I would love to hear your feedback to help improve the plugin. Usability issues, bugs, enhancements 
and any other comments welcome to make this plugin better. <a href="http://ianhaycox.com/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">Contact</a>
More
See my <a href="http://ianhaycox.com/programming/" rel="nofollow ugc">other plugins</a> and <a href="http://ianhaycox.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">work</a>
<h3>Usage</h3>
Once activated the bbPressModeration plugin will, depending on the settings, prevent the publishing 
of topics and replies until approved by the site administrator.
Registered users who have previously had a topic/reply approved do not need to go through the moderation 
process for subsequent posts.
If a topic/reply is marked for moderation then it is shown in the bbPress Topic or Reply menu as Pending. 
To approve the post, edit and click Publish.

bbPress Moderation

Add the ability to moderate and approve new topics and replies in the bbPress V2.0 plugin

Role Approved Comment vs bbPress Moderation