This plugin will allow any specified role to have their comments automatically approved.
As of April 2026, Role Approved Comment is a WordPress approval plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.0.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: PublishPress Checklists: Pre-Publishing….
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
capsman plugin to manage the capability. The capability
will appear as “Role approved comment”.
This…
| WordPress | 2.0.2+ requiredTested up to 2.8.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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