Moderate new Wordpress comments and get notified right on your desktop

When a visitor leaves a comment on your blog, going online to the website and approving it seems like such an ordeal. Using Moderator plugin, you can moderate new comments as they appear from your task bar. It notifies you instantly when a receive a new comment or if its held for moderation. Moderator is an Adobe Air based application, similar to TweetDesk I talked about some days back.

Some of the features of Moderator are :

Viewing unmoderated comments.
Dock and system tray notifications of the number of unmoderated comments.
Accept, delete or spam comments from within the desktop client.
Close application window or minimize it to the system tray while running.
Shows the Gravatar icons for the user who posted the comment.

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Currently, Moderator supports Mac and Windows while support for Linux is in beta. To run it, WordPress version 2.6+ is required as well as Adobe AIR 1.1.

The installation of Moderator as below:
1. Download the current plugin bundle moderator_plugin.zip.
2. Unzip the contents of the archive and place them in WordPress install directory under {wordpress install}/wp-content/plugins. After that, a directory called ‘moderator’ will be created in the plugins folder.
3. Login to administration panel, and go to the Plugins page. Activate the Moderator plugin by clicking on the ‘Activate’ link in the entry for this plugin.
4. Now that the plugin is activated, go to the Settings tab and select the Moderator admin page. Follow the instructions on that page to install the desktop client.
  
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A friend of mine, who has just started blogging was quite excited about using this feature of moderating comments from the taskbar itself. Although, this plugin has been around for quite some time, I decided to write it nonetheless and dedicate this post to him, you can reach him at http://innateblogger.co.cc/ (This is his first trackback, lol)