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.

Radek Mezulanik

Show the number of pending posts waiting for approval in the admin menu, if any. Also automatically supports custom post types. Sends email notification of posts pending review.

Zedna pending post indicator and notifier

Display number of posts waiting for approval in administration. Send an email about waiting approval, approved/rejected post.

Role Approved Comment vs Zedna pending post indicator and notifier