Remove and moderate comments

To remove a comment from public view, open Comments in the site admin and choose Trash. Use this inbox to read and moderate comments. Permanent deletion is a separate Admin action.

Checked against the product’s code on 7 November 2026.

Comments is EmDash’s moderation inbox. It handles comments stored by the site, including supported comments brought in during a migration.

Find and read a comment

1. Open Comments.
2. Choose Pending, Approved, Spam or Trash.
3. Search the comment text or author.
4. If more than one collection is available, narrow the list by collection, such as posts or another content type.
5. Open a comment to read it before deciding what to do.

The list shows the author, a short extract, its collection and date. A moderation status is separate from the content item’s own published state.

Change its status

On a row the moderation actions are icons. Open the comment or select it to see the words, then choose the intended status:

• Approve makes a comment public.
• Spam marks unwanted comments.
• Trash hides a comment in a way you can reverse.

You can select several comments and apply an offered bulk action.

When asking the copilot to moderate, describe the exact comments and the desired status. It pauses for approval before changing moderation state. Its receipt offers Undo, which puts the previous status back if the comments have not changed again since. Undo does not recall an email or other notification that approving already sent.

Delete permanently

Only Admins can delete comments permanently, on the screen and through the copilot. Delete Permanently is not Trash: the comment, its text and its author details are removed and cannot be restored. Deleting one comment asks Delete Comment? first. A copilot deletion always pauses for your approval.

To control whether visitors can leave comments on a collection, review that collection’s comments settings in Content Types. This does not add a comment form to every page layout.