Comment Probation

Plugin tool for assembling lists of IP addresses, emails, and URLs from spam comments.

Trust once → comments auto-publish with a moderator-only “ghost” flag. Includes a light spam shield, filters, bulk actions, and a clear dashboard.

Limit comment length by setting minimum and maximum character rules for WordPress comments.

FV Thoughtful Comments adds front end comment moderation including sophisticated banning mechanisms. Say Goodbye to Disqus!

Notify users other than the admin that new comments or new post have been posted or created

A lightweight plugin that globally disables comments and pings across all WordPress content - past and future.

Create simple, elegant footnotes on your site. Use the [ref] shortcode and the plugin takes care of the rest.

Editors and Administrators can publish content with unfiltered HTML. Use this plugin to force filtering of HTML from Editors.

Prevent users from seeing the welcome panel (added in WordPress 3.3) on new sites in a network.