[wp-hackers] Unapproved, yet not waiting for moderation

[Eric A. Meyer]

At 13:07 -0700 7/24/04, Kitty wrote:

>I've found the best thing for this is to save the 'please approve'
>emails. That way I don't have to use the blog interface to analyse spam.

    That only works for posts that actually get caught in the 
moderation queue.  I'm more interested in preserving posts that got 
past the moderation filters (on a site that doesn't require every 
comment to be approved, obviously) and that the administrators don't 
want to have publicly displayed but do want to keep around for future 
analysis.
    Since posting before, I've taken a crack at implementing my own 
solution for this, and so far it's working quite nicely.  It 
primarily involved modifying comment_approved to use '0','1','2' as 
its values, adding a "spamsaved.php" in the administrative interface, 
modifying the other "Edit" subpages, and extending two functions. 
This is more core-file editing than I'd like for a publicly released 
mod, though.
    I was wondering if there is (or will be) a way for plugins to 
"de-register" existing functions and register its own functions that 
use the same names.  So, for example, I'd like to be able (from 
within a plugin) to have WP ignore the 'wp_*_comment_status' 
functions found in 'functions.php' in favor of using the modified 
versions in the plugin.  Can it be done?  It's probably one of those 
basic "how'd he hack anything without knowing that?" questions, but 
hey, gotta learn somewhere.

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