WordPress Comment Moderation: the free AIFORYA plugin

Keep your comments clean, without spending your days on it.

AIFORYA Comment Moderation helps you maintain a healthy comment section with simple, fast rules: blocklist, author reputation, conditional closing and per-post control. No artificial intelligence, no API key, no network calls: the core of the plugin runs entirely locally and no comment data ever leaves your site. Free, with no time limit.

• Free and complete: published on WordPress.org, all moderation rules included.
• No AI, no API key: fast rules, no costly analysis and no external service.
• Respectful of your privacy: comments stay on your server.

Why a dedicated moderation plugin?

An open comment section is a permanent invitation to spam and unwanted messages. Past a certain volume, manual moderation becomes time-consuming: sorting, approving, trashing, tracking down repeat offenders… all time that goes neither into writing nor into replying to real readers. And the discouragement often leads to simply closing comments altogether, at the cost of the exchange with your community.

Many moderation tools address this problem with automated analysis that requires an API key, a subscription or sending your comments to a third-party service. AIFORYA takes the opposite stance: simple, effective mechanisms, run locally, that block spammers at the source, reward reliable authors and let you close comments wherever they only attract spam — all without ever sending the content of your comments outside.

What the plugin does

• Blocklist — block the IPs, emails and domains of repeat spammers. Any matching comment is flagged as spam the moment it is submitted, with no costly analysis.
• Author reputation and auto-whitelist — each author builds up a score from 0 to 100 based on their moderation history. Above a configurable threshold of approved comments with no spam, they become "trusted" and their comments are auto-approved.
• Moderation queue — a table of pending comments with the post, the author's reputation and filters (post, dates). Quick per-row actions (approve, spam, trash) and bulk actions on a selection.
• Conditional closing — automatically close comments beyond a certain post age and/or for specific categories. A post with no open comments no longer receives spam.
• Per-post control — a meta box in the editor lets you force comments open or closed on a given post, independently of the global rules.
• Respect for your settings — if you require manual approval in Settings → Discussion, the plugin never overrides that choice.
• Automatic maintenance — a daily task purges orphaned metadata and old entries according to your retention policy.

How it does better than free competing plugins

	AIFORYA Comment Moderation	Common free plugins
Author reputation	Included, with auto-whitelist	Rare or reserved for paid versions
Conditional closing	By post age and by category	Often missing
Bulk actions	Included in the moderation queue	Sometimes limited
Privacy	No comment data leaves your site	Sending to a third-party service is common
API key / account	None	Often required for analysis

Installation in 2 minutes

1. Download the plugin from the panel (or install it from WordPress.org).
2. Activate it from the Plugins menu.
3. Open the AIFORYA Comment Moderation menu to configure the blocklist, author reputation and conditional closing.
4. Handle your pending comments from the moderation queue, and fine-tune per-post control via the editor meta box as needed.

That's it: your comments are better managed from the very next submissions.