Title: Moderating user post
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Moderating user post

 *  [bAs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bas/)
 * (@bas)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-post/)
 * Hi there- I was looking around the sites, for a way to moderate the posting of
   peeps so that it had to be approved for certain levels- like level one posters
   had to get approval from higher lever authors for the articles to show. Is there
   anything like that for wp?
    I know there is for comments – how do we moderate
   authors?

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 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-post/#post-62250)
 * Currently, anyone with author permission is allowed to post any article in any
   category. Only users with level 4 or greater are allowed to edit timestamps. 
   This value is hard-coded into post.php.
 *  Thread Starter [bAs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bas/)
 * (@bas)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-post/#post-62251)
 * exactly- what can we do about getting some kinda moderation for users posting
   articles that definetly need approval before they post i/e kids posting bogus
   articles.
 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-post/#post-62255)
 * Not much you can do about it right now, short of hacking the code. The best you
   might be able to do right now is write a plugin that automatically sets the post
   status to “DRAFT” when a restricted author posts.
 *  Thread Starter [bAs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bas/)
 * (@bas)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-post/#post-62732)
 * ~has anyone taken a gander at this recently? We can moderate the comments- should
   be able to do the same for authors~
    please look into this wp’rs
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-post/#post-62776)
 * Is this what you’re after, bAs?
    [http://wordpress.org/support/3/7427#post-5](http://wordpress.org/support/3/7427#post-5)
 *  Thread Starter [bAs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bas/)
 * (@bas)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-post/#post-62802)
 * not exactly, but close- a hack would do if it could just set the post status 
   to draft, for level 1 authors and put the article on some kind of “awaiting admin
   approval” que.
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-post/#post-62851)
 * Does anyone know if a hack had been done for this request?

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-post/#post-62851)
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