I have freshly installed bbpress and my >Dashboard>Settings>Discussion>”Comment Moderation”> is set to “Comment must be manually approved”. However when a test user with subscriber role submits a post, it appears instantly without requiring any approval.

What is the setting or settings that cause the plugin to require approval before a subscriber’s reply to a forum is published?

[@sarahkmac Participant 3 years, 3 months ago]

I have the same question. I am using bbPress as an integration with Profile Builder Pro. Has this question been answered yet?

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 3 months ago]

This whilst old still works well

bbPress – Moderation Tools

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 years, 10 months ago]

Hi Robin

This plugin has been closed from WordPress plugins on 11 february

Any other plugin to moderate topics ?

i was hoping that the feature for comments :

Before a comment appears
1) Before a comment appears Comment must be manually approved
2) Comment author must have a previously approved comment

would also work for bbpress

but i tested and it doesnt work…

Apparently only the 2 settings comment moderation blacklist are working :

– number of links
– stopwords

but the problem is there is no warning message showing if someone adds 2 links for instance and then submits, nothing tells him his post is pending moderation (same test for stop words)

Also the admin doesnt have any notification of pending post, no mail, nothing on dashboard, i had to go directly to admin topics to see the pending topics

Best moderation would be to always moderate the first post for any user, how could i do that ?

i just found this other moderation plugin that does exactly what im describing but it’s 8 years old without update, does it still work ?

Thanks a lot !

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

try this one

bbPress Moderation

I also have a version of the one above that I might publish when I get back from holiday

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 years, 10 months ago]

I also have a version of the one above that I might publish when I get back from holiday

Great thank you Robin enjoy your holiday ! 🙂

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 years, 10 months ago]

You mean the plugin you recommended first is better than this one ?

By the way look at this : this guy seems to have solved a real issue

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

you’re asking whether a 4×4 is better than a sports car – it all depends in what you want it to do !!

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 years, 10 months ago]

Actually i cannot compare as i cant download the first one (not available on the WordPress plugins anymore)

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

you will when I get back from holiday

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

but I still won’t be able to tell you which is better 🙂

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 years, 10 months ago]

ok thanks 🙂

the second one i tested it : it works fine but there is a problem :

Case 1 : if user replies : he would see “reply awaiting moderation” on his post AND this post will be public : it should be hidden for all except admin / the poster

Case 2 : if user posts a topic : he posts the topic and then nothing happens, he can think its a bug, as he would actually have to scroll up to see his topic is actualy listed at the top with the topic subject (awaiting moderation)

so 2 problems in this case 2 :
– he can think its a bug and that his topic has not been posted and so would try again
– the topic subject is public : it should be hidden

Waiting to test first plugin to see if it works better !

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

you can download the other one from

bbpress moderation tools