Moderator desktop app for moderating WordPress blog comments

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Moderator desktop app for moderating WordPress blog comments

by Jason Clarke Nov 11th 2008

If you have a blog that gets a lot of comments, you might be finding that logging into your blog's administration panel to moderate comments has become a bit of a laborious process. If your blog runs on the WordPress platform and is self-managed, you might like to check out the Moderator plugin and associated Adobe Air desktop application.

The concept here is straightforward: install the plugin on your blog, then follow the instructions to install the Air application on your Windows or Mac machine. From there, you get a nice quick application from which to review comments and either approve, delete, or mark them as spam.

As the site currently warns, you might find a performance problem if your site has hundreds of unmoderated comments when installing Moderator. The easy and obvious work-around is to ensure that you are up-to-date in your moderating before installing the plugin.

While it's a fantastic start, I'm one of those insane people that runs a number of WordPress blogs, or at least caretake a few for friends. It would be wonderful if Morderator allowed you to monitor mulitple WordPress blogs and moderate comments for all of them from within one interface. You can change the site that you are aiming Moderator at, but support for multiple sites would be a great enhancement.

Tags: adobe-air, comment-moderation, comments, moderating, Moderator, wordpress

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jash Sayani said 9:45AM on 11-11-2008

Nice. I like the implementation....

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