Ajax Force Comment Preview

Visitors to your site are forced to preview their comment prior to submitting it.

Author:Thaya Kareeson (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:2.5
WordPress version tested:2.6.2
Plugin version:1.5
Added to WordPress repository:08-06-2008
Last updated:15-09-2008
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Total downloads:3 038
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The plugin works like TextPattern’s built-in “force comment preview” feature by
forcing your commenters to preview their comments prior to submission. In addition
this plugin is AJAX enabled so the user does not have to reload the page to preview
his/her comment. Here are the key benefits of having this plugin enabled.

  1. Comments quality will increase as users will be forced to preview his/her
    comment before submitting it. Previewed comments are sent through WordPress’
    various filters so that the user can see exactly how his/her comment will
    appear after it is submitted.

  2. Spambots will not be able post comments unless it actually tries to “preview”
    the comment. When a preview is requested, a nonce key is generated and
    returned along with the preview. This nonce key is then required to be sent
    back to the server during comment submission. So in order to submit a
    comment, the spambot would have to use javascript to request a comment
    preview prior to submitting the comment. Most spambots do not care to preview
    so this offers some level of spam protection.