WordPress Questions and Answers (CMA) - User Moderation - Approving User Questions


Moderation and Auto Approval

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In the WordPress Questions and Answers settings under Access and moderation tab on your admin dashboard, you will find a check-box feature that allows the admin to define whether to auto-approve user’s questions or whether they will require admin approval before being published on the question list.

Access and moderation settings - WordPress Question and Answer Plugin
Access and moderation settings
Enabling auto-approving new questions - WordPress Forum Plugin
Enabling auto-approving new questions

Manual Approval

Auto-approval of questions is turned off by default, so unless you change this setting, the admin/editor will be able to moderate each new question manually by going into the Questions section in the WordPress Questions and Answers control panel:

Dashboard for managing questions - WordPress Discussion Forum
Dashboard for managing questions

Questions that are pending administrator moderation will appear with a pending status alert beside them. 

Admins or editors can simply click on the Approve link to post the question. 

Approving questions - WordPress Q and A Plugin
Approving questions

If you choose to auto-approve user’s questions, they will be published automatically. As the site admin you will still be able to moderate them, but only after they’ve been published.

Using WordPress Spam System

Moderating question can also be based on external plugins such as Akismet or WordPress build-in spam system. This means that the control over what is added automatically is based on rules set by Akismet or WordPress built-in spam filtering.

To enable this feature turn this on in the plugin settings.

'Simulate comment add when question is added' option - Discussion Forum Plugin for WordPress
'Simulate comment add when question is added' option

Auto Approval to Specific Users

It is possible to restrict auto approval only to specific users by adding the username to the list of approved user.

Enabling auto-approving for specific users - WordPress Question and Answer Plugin
Enabling auto-approving for specific users

Auto Approval for answers and comments

Answers and comments need also to be set for auto-approval or moderation using the plugin settings.

Options for auto-approving answers and comments - WordPress Forum Plugin
Options for auto-approving answers and comments

Unlike Questions, moderating answers and comments is done from the Answers & Comments grid found in the plugin menu:

Managing answers and comments - WordPress Discussion Forum
Managing answers and comments

Once clicked the list of answers and comments appears:

Dashboard for managing answers and comments - WordPress Q and A Plugin
Dashboard for managing answers and comments

Once hovering over the comment section you can approve or trash the answer / comment:

Manual approval answers or comments - Discussion Forum Plugin for WordPress
Manual approval answers or comments

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