Moderator is an Adobe AIR application and Wordpress plugin which allow bloggers to view and moderate comments from desktop. Moderator is a new application and some of the features of this application include:

• 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.

This application only support Wordpress 2.6+ and you need a PC which installed Adobe AIR 1.1. After download the plugin, upload it to your Wordpress server and activate it thrpugh Plugin Page and follow the instruction to download the dekstop client.This is a pretty cool application as you can moderate or view your comments at your desktop.

Although this is a handy application, but there are still a lot of space for this application to growth. For example, the author may adds feature so that bloggers can reply comments through this application, or probably moderate a few blogs’ comments in the same application.

Make sure you subscribe to the author’s blog to follow the latest development and release of this cool application.

Download: Moderator

Top Commentator Widget is a handy tool for blogger to show their thankfulness to active commentators. With this widget, you can place a widget at your sidebar and show your active commentators to your visitors.

Top commentator Widget can encourage people to comment on your blog. Why i say so? People visit your blog frequently and leave quality comments, you return a favor to them by displaying their names and links at your sidebar. So, people are more willing to leave comments on your blog.

After you download and activate the plugin, you need to go to the Widget are and add it to your sidebar. After this, you can edit the settings. There are few settings which need your attention before activate this plugin:

• Widget title
• Exclude user
• Reset the list
• The number of names shown
• Hyperlink each name
• NoFollow hyperlink

The default Widget title is blank. So, you may simply put “Top Commentators” as your Widget title. The second thing that you need to configure is exclude yourself and other authors in the list. Your name will always at the first place if you don’t exclude yourself. If you are the visitor, what would you think?

The best period to reset your Top Commentator list is every one month or bi-weekly. It is all depands on number of comments on your blog. Next, you need to decide how many names to be shown in the list and whether want to hyperlink each name or not. I suggest you hyperlink each name to show your love to those top commentators. However, if you afraid doing so will affect your Google ranking, you may consider turn on the “NoFollow” for each hyperlink.

Download : Top Commentator Widget