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October 24, 2008 5:07 PM PDT

Manage WordPress blog comments in AIR

by Josh Lowensohn
(Credit: Daniel Dura)

If you're keen on moderating blog comments in near real time and would prefer to do so without a browser window open, you should check out Moderator. It's a hybrid tool that uses both a WordPress plug-in and an Adobe AIR desktop application to keep you up to speed with the latest user chatter on your blog.

Once installed, you simply leave it running and it will update itself throughout the day, letting you approve or deny comments to go live. Because it sits on your desktop you can keep your blog comments lean and clean without ever having to visit the moderation page on your WordPress install, although creator Daniel Dura says you might run into some slowdown if you've got more than a few hundred comments awaiting moderation.

The tool, which was released earlier this week, is just an early version. Planned features for future releases include the option to reply right from the application, manage comments on multiple blogs, and get near real-time notifications when new comments come in.

[via RefreshingApps]

Josh Lowensohn writes for Webware.com, CNET's blog about Web applications and services. E-mail Josh, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Josh.
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by gggg sssss October 24, 2008 5:35 PM PDT
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by this1! October 25, 2008 12:55 PM PDT
^ agreed
by MarkFrost October 24, 2008 6:13 PM PDT
I didn't read anything in either article about it having a notification setting (like Twhirl does for its AIR client). I'd kill for that. Being instantly notified of an unmoderated comment will be extremely convenient instead of having to sign in and check for them and delete the spam. Installing now.
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by NouberNou October 24, 2008 6:44 PM PDT
"Once installed, you simply leave it running and it will update itself throughout the day, letting you approve or deny comments to go live."

I wouldn't advise doing that... AIR has serious memory leak issues and eventually will eat all your ram... I have been working on a large enterprise-sized AIR application for almost a year now and we have found this to be a major draw back (among other performance issues).
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