Default WordPress Comment Moderation Settings

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To setup your blog for moderation, go to Settings > Discussion. This is where you’ll find WordPress’ default comment settings.
Scroll down to the section for Email me whenever. This is where you enable or disable comment moderation using the base system and it’s pretty straight forward: if you check the first box you’ll get an email for each and every comment, if you check the second box you’ll receive emails when a comment is held.

But as mentioned, if you log into your website feel free to uncheck both. WordPress adds a counter at the top of the Country Email List dashboard as well as next to the Comments in your sidebar menu. It’s pretty obvious when you have comments to moderate.
One easy way to make moderation less of a pain is by enabling automatic approval for comment authors who have been approved once. To enable this setting, go to Settings > Discussion and check for the Before a comment appears section check the second box that reads Comment author must have a previously approved comment. Leave the box above unchecked.



If a comment author changes the way they enters her details – name and email – then they’ll have to be moderated again.

Just keep an eye on comment authors who were previously approved. Some of these have learned the ins and outs of the system and can make some quality comments initially but then slack off with future comments since they know they are being automatically approved.