Disable auto-approve on blogs

[djstormag]

Hello everyone!

I'm wondering if I can somehow disable auto-approve on blogs posted. I got spammers on my website, posting some not-related to my website blogs with links inside.

What I want to do is to disable auto-approve option for blogs, and change it to status "pending" when someone has posted a blog.

Any help or suggestions will be really appreciated!

[djstormag]

ok, finally i got it done by myself exploring file blogs.php:

All you have to do is:

Open blogs.php file and find the next code inside it:

// enter new blog info into blog table

   $sql = "INSERT INTO blogs(blog_owner, user_id, viewtime, title, title_seo, description, tags, category, category_id, blog_story,

                 date_created, allow_replies, allow_ratings, rating_number_votes, rating_total_points,

                 updated_rating, public_private, approved, number_of_views, featured, promoted)

             VALUES('$blog_owner', '$user_id', '$viewtime', '$title', '$title_seo', '$description', '$tags', '$insert_category_name',

                  '$insert_category_id', '$blog_story', NOW(), '$allow_replies', '$allow_rating', 0, 0, 0,'$public_private', 'yes', 0, 'no', 'no')";

   @mysql_query($sql);

and change it to:

// enter new blog info into blog table

   $sql = "INSERT INTO blogs(blog_owner, user_id, viewtime, title, title_seo, description, tags, category, category_id, blog_story,

                 date_created, allow_replies, allow_ratings, rating_number_votes, rating_total_points,

                 updated_rating, public_private, approved, number_of_views, featured, promoted)

             VALUES('$blog_owner', '$user_id', '$viewtime', '$title', '$title_seo', '$description', '$tags', '$insert_category_name',

                  '$insert_category_id', '$blog_story', NOW(), '$allow_replies', '$allow_rating', 0, 0, 0,'$public_private', 'pending', 0, 'no', 'no')";

   @mysql_query($sql);

so we changed only the one VALUE: 'yes' (which is associated with sql query 'approved') to 'pending', so now all the new blogs won't be auto-approved. You can easily review them and approve through Siteadmin -> Media -> Blogs -> Pending

[JacksonMcGinley]

Thanks and thanks again, it works great.

                                    Jackson

[seimac82]

  wow!! it works perfectly. Only, you have to modify english.php to say "your blog is pending approval" instead of "your blog has been posted"

You are good man. Good job.


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