“Comment author must have a previously approved comment” not working?

Yes, we have two separate issues and yes the whitelist arguably should be checked before the spam flags. I thought about rearranging it and then decided to leave it as is for now. If someone wants to write a bug requesting that the whitelist be checked first, I will helpfully assign it to Matt. ??

Ryan,

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Thanks.

i just installed 1.5
i tried posting using a difft name to check if i can post wihtout prior approved comment.
i encountered the same problem. ??

So is this an issue we have to deal with until the next release of WordPress?

Is there a temporary workaround we can employ?

Ahh, I see, you just need to enter at least one word for automatic Comment Moderation and then the previously commented moderation works.

I wasn’t clear on that when I first read the thread.

This is happening to me as well. When I first installed my blog about a month ago, this setting worked great for me & new comments were moderated. But in the past wk. or so it’s stopped working & all new commenters are getting published w/o moderation. I don’t have a clue what might’ve caused this.

Since I’ve been linked to today by an anti-Semitic site & have 800 Jew haters now visiting my site & commenting away like mad, this becomes an important issue. Pls. I hope someone can fix it soon or if it has been fixed someone pls. let me know the solution.

I’ve even added the setting forcing every comment to be moderated. But it’s not working. So every comment is getting published no matter what comment moderation setting I’ve checked.

Is this bug being addressed globally in any way &/or is there anything I can do to fix this myself?

I would very strongly suggest that given the nature of these comments you talk more to your host. They may have had customers with this situation before and given that you pay them money, you should hassle them for help.

For now:
– Check “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”
– RENAME wp-register.php
– Invite people to contact you by email and you register them

This means of course that you now get nasty emails. talk to your host. It becomes a legal matter and on those, you really should not be asking a public forum.

Podz: Thanks for yr. suggestions.

But I’m not sure how my host will help me with WP’s comment settings not working. That’s what concerns me most.

If you mean I should talk to my host about how to deal with an attack of anti-Semitic comments–I can do that (& will). But basically I’m guessing they’re going to tell me to use IP Deny Mgr. to deny access to those who abuse my comment section (which I’m now doing thanks to a suggestion made by someone here). That’s fine as far as creating a barrier against future infractions. But it does nothing to prevent their first comment. If WP’s comment settings worked then it would catch the abusive initial comment. That’s what I need.

Sorry I neglected to reply to your suggestions about changing wp configs. Could you explain what renaming wp-register.php will do & why it might fix things? I don’t doubt you–I just like having things explained a bit so I can understand them better.

I’m not seeing the “user must be registered & logged in to comment” setting. Where is it located?

Podz wrote:

For now:
– Check “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”
– RENAME wp-register.php
– Invite people to contact you by email and you register them

Yes, this is a legitimate route to choose, but not for me. I’m not prepared to become that draconian. If I force every commenter to register before commenting then I immediately lose 90% of all comments. Who wants to go through the rigamarole of registering to make a single comment?

Though I mentioned a problem w. anti-Semitic commenters above, that’s not the main problem. The main problem is I can’t get my comment moderation feature working at all. Even with the system configured to moderate every comment, none are & all are published.

I wish someone who posted earlier in this thread about this being a bug would let me know whether it is & how it’s being handled (if at all). It’s a serious issue for me & I can’t seem to find out anything about it beyond what’s been written here.

Richard:

The patch I posted was for the second described problem (whitelisting occurred after moderation). I’m not sure if this patch is even applicable to the current 1.5 code base anymore.

Your problem stems from the first bug discussed in this thread which was evidently fixed. You should upgrade your installation to the latest version (1.5.1.3 currently) if you don’t already have it.

If you’re still having issues then chances are that something isn’t being upgraded properly, you have something configured incorrectly, or something else similar.

Good luck.

h3h: I’m new to WP & have never upgraded before here (though I’ve upgraded FF often & it may be a similar process). What I’m concerned about is all the plugins, hacks & patches I’ve installed. Will the upgrade take that all into acct. & adjust accordingly; or will I have to go back & update specific files which may be overwritten in the upgrade installation?