Wordpress Plugin: Comment timeout
Comment Timeout : James McKay
Latest version: 2.0.1
Wordpress: v2.0+
The vast majority of spam which gets through the superb Akismet spam protection, finds its way to older posts, particularly those which get low levels of traffic. If a post is not receiving a regular supply of visitor comments, there is little reason to continue to provide an open comment form on older posts. Wordpress has no inbuilt comment/post management apart from re-editing every post and diabling comments individually.
Comments Timeout is a superb plugin which manages comment forms based on a number of definable criteria. The administration settings allow a defined timeout based on the number of days from the post’s published date. In addition, you can define a separate timeout for posts defined as popular - i.e. posts with over a definable number of approved comments.
In addition, the post writing and editing page, has a new sidebar control to define comment timeout individually per post, adding huge flexibility and control over the availability to comments.
Since installing this plugin, and with the standard Akismet plugin running, I have not had to delete a single spam comment.
Get the Comment Timeout plugin here.
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