Best moderation plugins for WordPress

Registration Options for BuddyPress

Down in the last 7 days:26#5,971

by Brian Messenlehner3 years ago

Moderate new BuddyPress members and fight BuddyPress spam.

Content Censor

Up in the last 7 days:8#8,287

by gwycon1 month ago

Filter configured words from selected public-facing parts of a WordPress site without changing the stored source content.

Block, Suspend, Report for BuddyPress

#8,729

by Ben Roberts26 days ago

Block, Suspend, Report for BuddyPress provides enhanced moderation for your BuddyPress or BuddyBoss site.

bbPress Moderation

Down in the last 7 days:12#9,026

by ianhaycox13 years ago

Add the ability to moderate and approve new topics and replies in the bbPress V2.0 plugin

Auto Approve Comments

Down in the last 7 days:46#13,108

by Federico Andrioli5 years ago

Auto approve comments by Commenter (email, name, url), User and Role (Akismet and wpDiscuz compatible)

No Comment

Up in the last 7 days:147#15,007

by oiler15 years ago

No Comment is a simple way to remove email notification for just one person out of your list of blog administrators.

forumManager for bbPress

Down in the last 7 days:87#15,450

by Milan Petrovic2 months ago

Expand how the moderators can manage forum and topics content from the frontend, from any page showing the list of topics or forums.

Comment Moderator

Down in the last 7 days:72#16,269

by DraftPress Team4 years ago

Add a new user role, Comment Moderator, that allows any selected user to manage comments.

Do Not Allow Comments Everywhere

Up in the last 7 days:163#17,798

by tyfdesign1 year ago

A lightweight plugin that globally disables comments and pings across all WordPress content - past and future.

Post Comment Notification

Up in the last 7 days:90#18,275

by Rahul Mukherjee14 years ago

Notify users other than the admin that new comments or new post have been posted or created

FV Thoughtful Comments

#18,380

by FolioVision1 year ago

FV Thoughtful Comments adds front end comment moderation including sophisticated banning mechanisms. Say Goodbye to Disqus!

WP-Blacklister

Down in the last 7 days:294#19,489

by Luke Mlsna14 years ago

Plugin tool for assembling lists of IP addresses, emails, and URLs from spam comments.

CommentOff

Up in the last 7 days:102#20,264

by shuliakmaster1 year ago

Easily disable all comments on your WordPress site: hide the form, block existing comments, and remove comment elements from the admin panel.

Comment Probation

Up in the last 7 days:38#21,594

by Andrew Nacin14 years ago

Comment Probation allows you to require moderation for a future comment by a comment author, rather than having the comment be automatically approved.

Ghost Comment Manager

Up in the last 7 days:10#23,612

by devfluxr1 year ago

Trust once → comments auto-publish with a moderator-only “ghost” flag. Includes a light spam shield, filters, bulk actions, and a clear dashboard.

User Suspend

Down in the last 7 days:96#23,640

by Entrepreneur7 months ago

Suspend WordPress user accounts with timed or permanent bans, reasons, email notifications, and a full audit log.

Comment Limiter

#24,112

by Anass Rahou4 months ago

Limit comment length by setting minimum and maximum character rules for WordPress comments.

BragDeal Spam Guard

Down in the last 7 days:2,190#24,214

by BragDeal Inc.1 month ago

Block form and comment spam with keyword, email and injection rules, validation and moderation. No account, no API key, no external service.

SpamAnvil

Up in the last 7 days:234#25,085

by Alexandre Amato16 days ago

Free AI anti-spam & Akismet alternative. Uses ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & other LLMs to block comment spam that traditional filters miss.

Never Moderate Registered Users

Down in the last 7 days:133#25,884

by Scott Reilly4 months ago

Never moderate or mark as spam comments made by registered users, regardless of the apparent spamminess of the comment.

BuddyVerified

Down in the last 7 days:126#26,350

by modemlooper9 years ago

Allows admins to specify verified accounts. Adds a badge to verified usernames.

Quarivo Comment Shield

Down in the last 7 days:79#26,626

by 菅原隆志3 months ago

Activate it and stay focused. Obvious comment spam is quietly quarantined, while possible false positives remain easy to review and restore.

Crowd Control by Postmatic

Down in the last 7 days:322#27,846

by Postmatic7 years ago

Comment moderation is a drag. Have your users lend a hand by flagging offensive comments and scrubbing your site clean.

WP Link Analysis

Up in the last 7 days:72#28,060

by Diije14 years ago

Ce plugin analyse les liens contenus dans un article et les affiche dans une metabox dans l'interface d'administration.

Comment Approval Notification

Down in the last 7 days:16#28,205

by Speedboxer17 years ago

Sends an email to the comment author when their comment gets approved (only if it's held for moderation).

NicheRoute Unlimited Bulk Comment Delete

Up in the last 7 days:1,757#29,326

by nicheroute3 months ago

Delete a chosen number of WordPress comments or all matching comments in safe, cancellable AJAX batches.

BuddyPress Moderation

Up in the last 7 days:59#32,142

by francescolaffi12 years ago

Adds links/buttons to flag inappropriate content and gives a convenient way to moderators to view reports and take actions.

WP Comments Moderators

Up in the last 7 days:342#32,807

by .fay10 years ago

WP Comments Moderators plugin allows any user (whatever their Role) to moderate any blog comment.

Comment Moderation Highlighter

Up in the last 7 days:10,105#35,786

by johnh1010 years ago

This plugin will highlight keywords you specify on the admin moderation page, making it easier to spot manual spam and/or troll comments.

Role Approved Comment

Up in the last 7 days:5,349#37,412

by Jason Judge17 years ago

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

Mindvalley Comments Moderator

Up in the last 7 days:3,027#40,890

by Mindvalley14 years ago

Create a custom role that enables only Comment Moderation actions and pages.

Comment URL Control

Up in the last 7 days:5,558#41,114

by Erunafailaro19 years ago

This plugin will allow you to remove an unwanted author-URI entered by a commenter with one single click of your mouse.

My Two Cents

Down in the last 7 days:5,563#41,511

by Meitar12 years ago

Get BitCoin from commenters. Auto-approve comments that include a BitCoin donation. Fight spam with BitCoin microtransactions.

ShushThatNoise

#41,573

by zingming16 years ago

Hide unwanted comments without deleting them. Readers can click on the "Show" link to read the buried comment.

Ozh' Auto Moderate Comments

Down in the last 7 days:4,499#42,277

by Ozh16 years ago

When a post gets old, instead of simply closing the discussion, send comments and trackbacks to the moderation queue.

Blacklist keys manager

Down in the last 7 days:2,740#43,752

by tmatsuur11 years ago

The increase in efficiency of management of a comment blacklist is attained, and a spam comment is blocked.

CR Flexible Comment Moderation

Up in the last 7 days:998#44,575

by Arief Bayu Purwanto17 years ago

A wordpress plugin that will allow you to flexibly set comment moderation mode on individual post, wether to automatically approve or moderate the com …

Moderate New Blogs

Down in the last 7 days:5,794#45,439

by David Sader10 years ago

WordPress Multisite Network plugin. New blogs(aka sites) await a final click from a Network Admin to activate.

Block Member Posting

Down in the last 7 days:136#45,804

by Giannis Kipouros1 month ago

Stop chosen members, or a whole member type, from posting activity updates and comments on BuddyPress and BuddyBoss. They can still read.

Better Moderation

Down in the last 7 days:10,387#48,286

by artesea13 years ago

Provides more control over comment moderation

WP Compteur

#48,477

by resoneo15 years ago

Compte le nombre d'articles refusés pour chaque contributeur et passe les contributeurs trop souvent refusés en abonnés.

Notifications for Collapsed Admin Menu

Down in the last 7 days:4,405#48,561

by Scott Reilly1 year ago

Highlights the comments and plugins icons in the collapsed admin sidebar menu when notifications are pending.

Compassionate Comments

#48,998

by Ian Dunn6 years ago

Encourages authors of toxic comments to re-phrase them to be more kind instead.

KOZ URL-Only Comment Spam

#50,574

by Tony_Koz20 days ago

Privacy-first local moderation for link-only and low-effort comment spam, with honeypot and form-timing traps. No external service.

PrePublish Comment Moderator

Up in the last 7 days:17,686#51,247

by koskar223 months ago

Pre-publish AI comment moderation for WordPress. Block spam and toxic comments before they go live — OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, Perspective API, or a free …

Free Net of Moderators

#52,643

by moderateit6 years ago

Maintaining a culture of online communication in the hands of the users themselves.

Gaali

#53,764

by anjanesh3 years ago

Gaali removes harmful and unwanted comments before they can cause any damage. Its checks for toxicity based on TensorflowJS.

NexaBoard

Up in the last 7 days:10,075#54,716

by nexaboard1 month ago

A community discussion forum for WordPress with multi-level forums, member profiles, moderation, subscriptions and template overrides.

WVDevel Community Assistant for Telegram

Up in the last 7 days:12,546#55,306

by wvdevel19 days ago

A configurable Telegram bot for any community or group: validates members, replies only when mentioned, and optionally integrates with Ollama.

Katorymnd Reaction Process Plugin

#55,349

by Raymond10 months ago

Elevate your WordPress site with dynamic feedback, ratings, and surveys for insightful user interaction.