Spolier warning – this one’s an absolute ‘mega’ plugin that’s got possible application across a whole range of different sites!
Have you ever wondered how big online news sites that incorporate comments and user generated content manage issues with defamation, libel or other dodgy content?
Well, the answer is often – badly… but that doesn’t have to be the case any more with this powerful moderation plugin that allows specified moderators to quickly review all reported posts and comments and – if appropriate – remove them and send the user a warning… all from one handy location!
First up it allows you to configure a massive range of messages and options including which users you want to be moderators (they don’t hav eto be site admin), whether they can remove users and/org blogs, different reasons for reporting different styles of content and notes that can be sent to users, see below for the full range of options.
It’ll then add a simple ‘Report this Post’ / ‘Report this Comment’ option to each post and comment which, when clicked on, looks like this:
This will place the post, comment or blog in the backend management queue and allow a moderator to take the approporaite action as illustrated below:
And it’ll even show you a handy record of warnings made against each user in site admin > users.
Pretty neat huh! All you need to run a successful, and safe, blogging portal! Download it here.
Does anybody know whether this also email the set post moderators when something new is flagged?
I don’t have a WPMU Dev account yet otherwise I’d just install and find out :)
You;re welcome to request it as a feature enhancement if you decide to join :)
It shouldn’t be too hard to build in as our content monitor does exactly that:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/content-monitor