Title: Approve Posts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Approve Posts

 *  [andyh2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyh2/)
 * (@andyh2)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/approve-posts/)
 * Is it possible to approve posts before they are made? I’m creating a site for
   my school and the admin has to approve the posts before they are published on
   the website.

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/approve-posts/#post-524596)
 * Not that I have ever heard of.
 *  [impirius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/impirius/)
 * (@impirius)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/approve-posts/#post-524897)
 * Anyone mind if I resurrect this topic? I’m trying to create a system in which
   an administrator must approve new posts or edits. Is there any way through plugins
   to “capture” posts before they’re saved to the DB so that I can save them to 
   a different DB table? I’d like to do this through plugins if possible.
 * Thanks!
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/approve-posts/#post-524898)
 * Not that I’m aware of (note please that I do NOT know every plugin available 
   out there!)
 * If you’ve got the blog set up for moderation before posts go live though, why
   does it matter what table the posts go to?
 *  [impirius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/impirius/)
 * (@impirius)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/approve-posts/#post-524899)
 * Thanks for the response! I found a plugin to require approval for new posts, 
   but here’s the catch; the site owners would like to approve not only new posts
   but also any subsequent edits.
 * I may be wrong, but I figure the best way to achieve this is to save each post
   submission into a clone of the posts table. After that, an administrator can 
   approve the post, in which case it’s copied to the real posts table. So basically,
   any changes to posts or pages would need to be redirected to this “holding area”.
 * This could be done by digging in to the code and changing some stuff around, 
   but then I’d lose the ability to upgrade WP (not to mention that such a hack 
   wouldn’t be of much use to anyone but me). I’d like to make it into a plugin,
   but I’m not sure that abducting post submissions is possible. (Please correct
   me if I’m wrong!)
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/approve-posts/#post-524900)
 * Ouch. I absolutely haven’t a clue about the subsequent edits thing. Other than
   to simply somehow disallow edits…. I know a forum plugin that can handle all 
   of that, but not wp native.
 * If you think that might help:
 * [http://www.yellowswordfish.com/my-wordpress-plugin-library/simple-forum-wordpress-plugin/](http://www.yellowswordfish.com/my-wordpress-plugin-library/simple-forum-wordpress-plugin/)
 *  [dankink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dankink/)
 * (@dankink)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/approve-posts/#post-524901)
 * Well… I know that when I installed WP on my server, it was set to approve comments
   by default. Do you have the latest version?

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