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.
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Role Approved Comment

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

FraT

GT Post Approval adds “Approve/Reject” buttons visible just for administrators and editors in the Menage > Posts page. 
Not approved posts are visible just in the author’s archives and in the search results.
When you install this plugin any old posts will be approved and any new post will have to be approved.
This plugin is been made for the SEO contestants of GT <a href="http://www.gt-globalwarming-awareness2007.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">GlobalWarming Awareness2007</a> 
and also for this reason the plugin has “static” features.
To make it more flexible I’ve developed the version 0.3. It’s a beta but it seems working fine. So in the version 0.3 
the admin can go to Options > Approval to choose where display not approved posts and to define an user level to auto approve posts.

GT Post Approval

GT Post Approval adds "Approve/Reject" buttons visible just for administrators and editors in the Menage > Posts page.

Role Approved Comment vs GT Post Approval