How to hide collabpress activity from the front end's recent comments area?

Howdy!

Update:

If I go into the comments section of wordpress and mark the collabpress comment as pending (as opposed to approved), then it no longer shows up in the front end (not in the recent comments nor in the comments RSS feed). Great!

Now how to make all collabpress comments by default become set to pending?…

I learned it’s hardcoded in collabpress for comments to be approved. ( i.e. “…’comment_approved’ => 1,”… )

as far as i can tell, in two places:
collabpress/includes/menus/isset/comment.php
and
collabpress/includes/functions.php

A quick workaround would be if collabpress by default set the comment_approved flag to 0…

I’m not sure I’m ready to hack the plugin core to set this flag to 0 by default– I don’t want my added functionality to break next time I update the plugin.

If I think of what to do next I’ll update this thread.

What idea do you have to work around this?

-Morgan

Thinking to make a (collab-press specific) helper plugin to set all comments with the type of ‘collabpress’ to 0 (pending) so that they don’t show up in the front end…

The point of this plugin is envisioned to examine all comments being created in wordpress and if the comment type found is ‘collabpress’, then set approval to 0 (pending), otherwise leave its approval to alone.

But what I have so far isn’t working. The plugin installs and activates but then when I make new comment in collabpress, the status still always stays at the default of 1 (approved/published) which makes it show on the front end in recent comments…

The prototype of the plugin on github: https://github.com/mjassen/mzz-pendingcomment/blob/master/mzz-pendingcomment.php

What is the next step to troubleshoot it to find why its not firing/working? is it that in the “add_filter(…” line, i need to programmatically pass it something other than ’99’ and ‘2’ as the last two parameters? Where would I look to find what it’s expecting to have passed to it instead of ’99’, ‘2’ ?…
code:
add_filter( 'pre_comment_approved' , 'mzz_cp_pendingcomment' , '99', '2' );

Or could it be that I’m assuming that the pre_comment_approved hook gets called when collabpress creates a comment, but it really doesn’t? (here would I look to find whether it does or doesn’t?)

Thoughts?

-Morgan

Hiya!

To address this issue, I’ve made a helper Plugin for CollabPress plugin for WordPress.

I call it the “Mzz Pendingcomment” helper plugin. As comments are made the helper plugin sets CollabPress comments to pending.

Features include:
* overrides the default published-comment behavior of CollabPress. It sets comments to pending, so that the comments don’t show on the front end of one’s blog, neither under Recent Comments nor under Comments RSS.
* Doesn’t modify core code, neither of CollabPress nor of WordPress.

Note: Mzz Pendingcomment is born as an Open Source script. It’s home is here on GitHub: https://github.com/mjassen/mzz-pendingcomment

Here’s how it works:
1. Put the mzz-pendingcomment.php file into a folder called mzz-pendingcomment and upload the folder to the plugins directory in your WordPress installation.
2. From the WordPress dashboard, activate the plugin.
You’re done! Now any time someone creates a comment on a CollabPress task, the comment’s status will default to pending.

Dear mjassen,

thanks for sharing this. Do you have any idea how I should go about a similar issue in the activity stream? I don’t want to hide the activities, but there’s a bug: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/activity-stream-links-project-to-user-not-group

Thanks
Leo