When spammers do sneak comments through my blog, I have a very simple one click* snippet to ban them similar to the way the EE forum’s “ban member” option works. Essentially, beside every comment, I have a “delete & ban” link. This saves me needing to fire up my control panel, and navigate to the proper place. It just saves a bit of clicking around.
I never thought much of it, but yesterday it co-incidentally came up when I showed another EE dev my site’s control panel for something totally unrelated. Since I implement the “one click delete” in a snippet, I thought I’d share it here:
{if can_moderate_comment}
[ <a href="{cp_url}?S=0&D=cp&C=addons_modules&M=show_module_cp&module=comment&method=index&entry_id={entry_id}">delete & ban</a> ]
{/if}
And then in my template
{exp:comment:entries}
<p>{url_as_author} wrote: {ban_member_snippet}</p>
{comment}
{/exp:comment:entries}
I’ve used this sucker for so long I forgot all about it. If you have any “go to” snippets, code or tricks, please post them in the comments here!
* Technically its probably 2 or 3 clicks :)
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