During today’s little RSS reading ritual I realized something many blogs have in common - they don’t notify their commentators if their comment is thrown in the moderation queue or spam bucket. Now that isn’t very user-friendly, is it?
I really don’t get it at all. It only takes 3 lines of code to display a simple message if a comment needs to be moderated. Simply add this code in your comment.php file for your theme:
<?php if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>
<em>Your comment is awaiting moderation.</em>
<?php endif; ?>Now that wasn’t hard, was it? The best place to add it is right next to the commentator’s name, so it appears as “Jeremy Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.” Just do a search in the comment.php file for “comment_author_link()” and add it right after that.
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