Title: Comment Probation
Author: Andrew Nacin
Published: <strong>May 31, 2012</strong>
Last modified: May 31, 2012

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used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Comment Probation

 By [Andrew Nacin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nacin/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/comment-probation.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-probation/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-probation/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-probation/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-probation/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/comment-probation/)

## Description

Comment Probation allows you to put a comment author on “probation.”

If you allow comments to automatically appear from authors who already have an approved
comment,
 this plugin gives you a bit more control. It lets you approve a comment
but place the author under probation, meaning that any future comments from that
author will need to be moderated again.

When approving a comment, you’re given the option to “Approve” the comment, or “
Approve with Probation.”
 If a comment ended up in moderation because the author
is on probation, “approving” the comment will remove the author from the probation
list.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Two ways to approve a comment: ‘Approve’ and ‘Approve with Probation’.

## Installation

This plugin only works if you’ve enabled the setting “Comment author must have a
previously approved comment”
 on the Discussion Settings Screen.

## FAQ

  Why am I not seeing “probation” links when moderating comments?

This plugin only works if you’ve enabled the setting “Comment author must have a
previously approved comment”
 on the Discussion Settings Screen.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Comment Probation” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Andrew Nacin ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nacin/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/comment-probation/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/comment-probation/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/comment-probation/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/comment-probation/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.4.2**
 * Tags
 * [comments](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[moderation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/moderation/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-probation/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Andrew Nacin ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nacin/)

## Support

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