Title: Comment Inbox
Author: Mark Jaquith
Published: <strong>March 20, 2008</strong>
Last modified: April 11, 2009

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# Comment Inbox

 By [Mark Jaquith](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markjaquith/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/comment-inbox.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/comment-inbox/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/comment-inbox/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/comment-inbox/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/comment-inbox/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/comment-inbox/)

## Description

Comment management in WordPress isn’t too hard when you manually approve each comment.
You know which comments you’ve seen, and which you haven’t. The only downside is
that you have to approve the comments before they appear. Comment Inbox gives you
the ease of the moderation queue with the freedom of unmoderated comments. It’s 
a better way to deal with spam and bacn on your blog.

Here’s how it works:

 * All comments except caught spam go into moderation (renamed “Comment Inbox”)
 * All comments in your Comment Inbox immediately show up on the blog — so conversations
   don’t wait on your moderation skills
 * There are three actions that can be performed on comments in your Comment Inbox:
   Archive (i.e. mark as read), Spam, Delete
 * When your Comment Inbox is empty, you can rest easy knowing you’ve dealt with
   all your new comments

For the history of this plugin, please see [The Comment Inbox](http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/the-comment-inbox/).

## Installation

 1. Download and unzip
 2. Upload `comment-inbox.php` to your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 3. Activate it from within the WordPress admin interface.
 4. Recommended: Turn OFF moderation e-mail notification in Options/Settings » Discussion
 5. Done! Now every new incoming comment will go into your Comment Inbox (former known
    as the moderation queue). All comments (except spam) will appear on the blog immediately.
    Comments in the Comment Inbox can be archived (i.e. marked as “read”), spammed,
    or deleted.

## FAQ

  I can’t disable the “An administrator must always approve the comment” option!

This is intentional… it is how we funnel all comments into the Comment Inbox. Ignore
the wording. All non-spam comments appear on the blog immediately.

  How do I stop all the “you have a comment awaiting moderation” e-mails?

Go to Options/Settings > Discussion and uncheck the “[E-mail me whenever…] A comment
is held for moderation” box.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Comment Inbox” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Mark Jaquith ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markjaquith/)

[Translate “Comment Inbox” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/comment-inbox)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/comment-inbox/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/comment-inbox/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/comment-inbox/) 
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/comment-inbox/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **0.3**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.7.1**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-inbox/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[comments](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/comment-inbox/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Mark Jaquith ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markjaquith/)

## Support

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