I must say that I'm also surprised that Admin have to "moderate" their own comments. I searched through every draw in the back office for what I thought would be an obvious box to tick to change this, with no luck. :)

John,

We've already made a plugin at http://astonishme.co.uk - which we'll be offering gratis - that'll resolve that issue (and add a tad more functionality).

When it's written up and fully tested, I'll pop back here and add a link to it.

Great... I'll stay tuned

Hi John,

I don't suppose you're running php5 by any chance?

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No, I'm as follows....

SQL Version MYSQL (3.23.58)
PHP Version 4.3.11 (apache2handler)

My host isn't ready to go up to 5 just yet.... another careful Australian

ack, yer bloody useless :p

I'll pm you a link to the preview version of the plugin Scott was on about if you would like to test it out ?

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Thanks

Scott and ¥åßßå
Thanks for the "crash test dummy" privilege.
The plug worked as I expected it would.
I was able to preview the post and post the post.

Issue 1: A guest posted and hit Preview... and got a preview.
The guest then hit submit but there was no confirmation or feedback that the post would be Moderated. It simply appeared to be stuck in Preview Mode for the guest poster.

Issue 2: It would be nice if the Admin didn't get an email telling the Admin that the Admin had just posted a comment to the site that he/she Admins :)

Hi John,
Ah well at least you can post comments huh? :p

Did you get a "your comment has been submitted" message when you posted? (if not then check you have $Messages->disp() in your _main.php )

Can you tell me what the comment karm is for your guest post? (if you have no other karma plugins then it should be zero)

lol @ emails, it looks like that would require a core hack, this might work (inc/MODEL/comments/_comment.class.php approx line 971 ):-

		// Check if we need to add the author:
		$item_author_User = & $this->Item->get_creator_User();
		if( $item_author_User->notify
				&& ( ! empty( $item_author_User->email ) )
				&& ( $this->author_ID != $this->Item->creator_user_ID )
		)
		{ // Author wants to be notified:
			$notify_array[$item_author_User->email] = $item_author_User->locale;
		}

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Did you get a "your comment has been submitted" message when you posted?

Yes... interesting though... if you have a long list of comments maybe this message should appear below the last post instead of at the Top of the Page.

Can you tell me what the comment karm is for your guest post?

Visitor website karma:100
This is the spam karma that will be assigned if visitors leave a url when they're not allowed (values -100 > 100 )
Users karma:-10
This is the spam karma multiplier that will be assigned if the comment is from a registered user (values -10 > 10 )

Note I haven't edited any settings at all. Just installed and ran.

The email issue aint a biggy but I will play with it :)

Hi John,
That actually might not be a bad idea, although you could also add $Messages->disp(); to your _feedback.php as well ;)

If you look in admin > comments you should see what the karma level is that was assigned to the guests post (or was it that you just missed the message? Or did the guest never manage to post?)

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Yey found it :)

I have No Spam Karma
My "special guest" has 0% but in reality she has a lot more :)

Hi John,
bob on, think we'll class that as "working" :D

Thanks for your help ;)

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