Registration for Commenters?

  • I have a WordPress blog which gets a lot of comments and right now each user puts in their name/website/email and then types in a comment.

    One thing that I see as a potential problem is that I have a number of regular commenter on the site and I’m worried that someone could hijack their handles to post a comment that is not really by the person it appears to be.

    Therefore I’d like to be able to allow my readers to register and reserve a handle so that they would be the only one who could use it (with a password). The other thing that would be great would be if doing this would allow them to bypass the spam check or have their own signature, avatar and that kind of thing.

    As far as I can tell the only way to do this would be to allow for people to register as a user on the local WordPress server. I don’t want to do that because I have no intention of having these people edit articles and I do not want them to have access to the control panel or anything like that. I’d want it to be independent of the wordpress contributers. Is that possible?

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  • You could allow people to register as subscribers, which while they could see the admin panel, they can not really do anything.

    Then once they are registered users, you could use this code I wrote a while back:

    https://www.dagondesign.com/articles/prevent-author-impersonation-in-wordpress-comments/

    Description:

    This modification to WordPress prevents unregistered comment authors from using the names or email addresses of the registered authors on your site. It does this by first checking to see if the comment author is logged in. If they are not, it compares their name and email address to the registered author data. If there is a match, the comment is blocked and a custom message is displayed. The name and email address comparison is case-insensitive.

    It was last tested with WP 2.5, but should still work in 2.6

    Ooh… I didn’t know a plugin like that existed. Thanks! ??

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