Control who will receive new comment and moderation notifications. Light weight, simple, safe and effective.
As of April 2026, Comment Moderation/Notification Recipients is a WordPress comments plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 24K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
Normally, when a comment gets submitted to a particular post, the author of that post gets a notification about it. And when a comment is held for moderation (which depends on your sites comment settings) then the moderation notification is sent to both the post Author (if he/she has moderation rights) and the site’s Administration E-mail Address as configured under Settings > General at the same time.
On colaboration sites or sites managed by a webmaster or designer where the client is the post author, the site admin, with enough on his/her mind already, is bothered with each and every new comment in the moderation queue.
This plugin can change that.
Just install and activate it: All post comment moderation notifications will be sent only to each respective Post Author. If, by a…
Very simple and fast plugin.
We use it on > 200 websites
Works great, thanks
Simple. Just install it and it works. I was getting duplicate emails to my admin account and my posting account constantly. Now, just my posting account gets notified and my admin email is not bothered by comments to my posts or other users posts. Just what I needed!
| WordPress | 3.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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* NEW: set Site Amdin only recipient with constant in wp-config.php
* NEW: set New Comment Notification recipients with constant in wp-config.php
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