There's another way, I can hack the file 'wp-comments_post.php' but that would make it hard for other people to use the plugin. Anyway, When will 1.3 be stable? Ammar Mark Jaquith wrote: > If it's WP 1.2 or 1.2.1, you can't. In WP 1.3, declare $approved > global for the function and set $approved = 0;