Easily Moderate Comments in WordPress with Moderator Role

Moderating comments in large WordPress site takes a lot of time. There’s no surprise that large site like Copyblogger decided to remove their comments section since most of the comments leave by the users are simply useless and add no value to the article.

However, there’s an alternative. You could point someone to take in charge of moderating all comments in your site. The person will only be moderating comment on the site and nothing else.

While you can add a custom user role to WordPress, there’s a handy plugin called Moderator Role. This plugin is available from WordPress.org plugin repo and can be downloaded for free.

Once you’ve installed and activated, you’ll see a new role called Moderator. To change any user’s role to Moderator, simply go to user’s profile and edit his profile. Under the role section, simply choose the Moderator role from the dropdown.

As a moderator, the user will only have access to the Comments section in your WordPress backend. This keeps your WordPress secure and preventing the user to mess up with your site. On the front end, the user will see an Edit link near each comment. When they click on the link, they’ll be redirected to the Comments section in the back-end where they can edit, mark as spam or delete the comment.

Moderator Role plugin will be very handy if you want to appoint some users to moderate all the comments in your site. Don’t forget to subsribe to our RSS and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for more awesome WordPress tutorials and tips.