🎯 Zero bloat, single purpose plugin - Automatically send beautiful email notifications when WordPress comments are approved.

Comment Approved Notifier Extended is a lightweight WordPress plugin designed with a single focus: notify comment authors instantly when their comments are approved. No bloat, no unnecessary features—just one thing done exceptionally well.

• 🎯 Single Purpose - Does ONE thing perfectly: sends approval notifications
• 🪶 Zero Bloat - No unnecessary features or performance overhead
• 🔒 Security First - Built following WordPress security best practices
• 📱 Responsive Emails - Beautiful HTML templates with dark mode support
• 🌍 Translation Ready - Fully internationalized with .pot file
• ⚡ Lightning Fast - Minimal database queries, optimized code
• 👨‍💻 Developer Friendly - Clean, well-documented code

• Automatic notifications when comments are approved
• Customizable subject and body with shortcodes
• Professional, responsive HTML email template
• Dark mode support for better user experience

• Email validation with is_email()
• Nonce verification for all form submissions
• Data sanitization (sanitize_text_field(), wp_kses_post())
• Output escaping for XSS prevention
• ABSPATH security checks
• Error logging for debugging

• 6 available shortcodes for personalization
• HTML support in email body
• Easy-to-use admin interface
• Click-to-copy shortcode sidebar

• Loads admin assets only on settings page
• No frontend resources loaded
• Minimal database queries
• Efficient hook usage

1. Go to Plugins > Add New
2. Search for "Comment Approved Notifier Extended"
3. Click Install Now, then Activate
4. Navigate to Settings > Comment Approved Notifier
5. Customize your email template
6. Save and test!

# Download and extract
cd wp-content/plugins/
wget https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/comment-approved-notifier-extended.zip
unzip comment-approved-notifier-extended.zip
rm comment-approved-notifier-extended.zip

# Or clone from GitHub
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/comment-approved-notifier-extended.git

Then activate via WordPress admin.

Use these shortcodes in your email subject and body:

Subject:

Your comment on [commentedposttitle] has been approved!

Body:

Dear [commentauthor],

Your comment has been approved for the following post:
[commentedposttitle]

You can view your comment at:
[commentaddress]

Your comment:
[commentcontent]

Thank you for contributing to our discussion!

Best regards,
[blogname]
[blogurl]

1. Navigate to Settings > Comment Approved Notifier
2. Customize the Email Subject using shortcodes
3. Customize the Email Body (HTML supported)
4. Click Save Changes
5. Approve a test comment to verify!

For better email deliverability, use an SMTP plugin:

• WP Mail SMTP
• Easy WP SMTP
• Post SMTP

Enable WordPress debug logging to see error messages:

// In wp-config.php
define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);

Check logs at: wp-content/debug.log

• WordPress: 5.0 or higher
• PHP: 5.6 or higher (tested up to PHP 8.5)
• MySQL: 5.6 or higher

// When comment status changes from unapproved to approved
add_action('comment_unapproved_to_approved', 'cane_send_email');

comment-approved-notifier-extended/
├── comment-approved-notifier-extended.php  # Main plugin file
├── readme.txt                              # WordPress.org readme
├── README.md                               # GitHub readme
├── assets/
│   ├── css/
│   │   └── admin.css                       # Admin styles
│   └── js/
│       └── admin.js                        # Admin scripts
├── templates/
│   └── email-template-1.php                # Email HTML template
└── lang/
    └── comment-approved-notifier-extended.pot  # Translation template

This plugin follows WordPress Coding Standards:

• ✅ Proper sanitization and validation
• ✅ Nonce verification
• ✅ Data escaping
• ✅ Internationalization
• ✅ Security best practices
• ✅ PHPDoc documentation

The plugin is fully translatable:

1. Use the .pot file in /lang/ directory
2. Create translations with Poedit or Loco Translate
3. Save as comment-approved-notifier-extended-{locale}.po

Text Domain: comment-approved-notifier-extended

Contributions are welcome! Here's how you can help:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/comment-approved-notifier-extended.git
cd comment-approved-notifier-extended

# Install WordPress Coding Standards
composer install

# Check code standards
phpcs --standard=WordPress comment-approved-notifier-extended.php

# Fix code standards automatically
phpcbf --standard=WordPress comment-approved-notifier-extended.php

• ✨ Enhanced code documentation with PHPDoc blocks
• ✨ Better error handling and logging
• ✨ Consistent escape function usage
• 🔒 Added capability checks in admin page
• 🔒 Improved nonce error messages
• 🎨 Better code formatting and WordPress standards compliance
• ⚡ More efficient array declarations
• 🔒 Fixed XSS vulnerability
• ✨ Added email validation
• ✨ Added error logging
• ✨ Settings link in plugin list
• 🎨 Modern card-based admin UI
• ⚡ Better template handling

• 🔒 Fixed XSS vulnerability

View full changelog

This project is licensed under the GPL v2 or later - see the LICENSE file for details.

Copyright (C) 2024 UfukArt

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

• Original Author: yakuphan
• Current Maintainer: UfukArt
• Email Template: Based on responsive HTML email best practices

Need help? Have a feature request?

• 💬 WordPress.org Support Forum
• 🌐 Plugin Website
• 📧 Contact Developer

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