Daniel Dura’s Moderator is a Wordpress comment moderating tool that lives on your desktop and allows you to moderate your blog’s comments without having to leave your desktop. The hybrid tool requires Adobe Air to run the local application as well as a plugin for your Wordpress 2.6+ installation and pulls in comments from your moderation queue every 1-60 minutes. You can then choose to accept, delete or mark as spam comments directly from within the app.

Some features of this early version:

* Viewing unmoderated comments.
* Dock and system tray notifications of the number of unmoderated comments.
* Accept, delete, and 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.

As mentioned this is an early version released this week. Possible features for future releases include multiple blog integration, the ability to reply to comments from within the app, and near real time notification of new comments.

I personally am leaning towards online comment systems like Disqus for handling the comment chores but if you prefer the Wordpress built in commenting system and have a lot of comments to moderate, this just might be for you.

[cnet via RefreshingApps]

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Tags: disqus, moderator, plugin, wordpress

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