Provides more control over comment moderation
As of April 2026, Better Moderation is a WordPress comment plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Comments – wpDiscuz.
Whereas the built in moderation just looks for keywords wherever they appear in the comments, Better Moderation allows you to define if it should just be the username, url, email, comment, ip, useragent or all of them.
It also allows you to define if when looking for “word” whether you should match “WordPress”.
Finally it lets you set reasons why words have been added to the list, allowing you to quickly realise why a comment has been added to the moderation queue.
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 3.1.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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