Ghost Comment Manager

Ghost Comment Manager is designed to reduce the time you spend moderating comments. Instead of re-approving the same people over and over, you mark a person as Trusted one time. From then on:

• Their new comments publish immediately.
• A subtle “ghost” indicator is shown to moderators only so you can spot and confirm at your convenience.
• Visitors see a normal comment; nothing changes on the public site.

Alongside this workflow improvement, the plugin includes a lightweight Shield that blocks common spam patterns without external services. A simple dashboard gives you live counts and a clear picture of what is happening. This plugin focuses on workflow, clarity, and speed. It plays nicely with Akismet or Antispam Bee if you already use them.

0.1.0

• Initial release
• Trust / Untrust workflow and auto-trust threshold
• Ghosted auto-publish with one-click Confirm
• Role exclusions and indicator customization
• Shield Lite: honeypot, minimum submit time, rate limits, link limit, keyword/regex blocklist, auto-close, min/max length, duplicate protection
• Comment-screen filters for Pending (New Users) and Ghost (Trusted)
• Bulk actions (Trust / Untrust user of selected comments)
• Trust from the User Profile screen
• Dashboard with metrics and Pro preview