Two comments awaiting for moderation on my blog!

To moderate blog comments, Most of us login to wordpress admin and check for any new comments awaiting to be moderated.

I discovered couple of days back that now there is no need to check wordpress admin every hour to see whether there are any new comments or not.

All it takes is a wordpress plugin and an application. The application sits in your Desktop – System tray and notifies whenever there is a new comment made on your blog, something similar to yahoo messenger or Gtalk.

Isn’t great?

The Wordpress plugin is Moderator. and is written by Daniel Dura

Moderator is a combination of a WordPress plugin and an Adobe Air Application.

Adobe AIR application will sit on your desktop in system tray:

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

Install and activate the plugin, then download and install the Adobe Air application. Once the installation goes smoothly, you will see a black colored window appearing. Just enter wordpress username and password. Its Done!!

From now you can access to comment moderation queue right from your desktop. It also shows an icon in the system tray, the icon is similar to the comment moderation bubble graphic with a number that represents the amount of comments in the moderation queue.

I think this is a very good feature that you can start using to moderate comments!

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I was reading Do you need all those revisions? post from Nice2All blog. In the post, i found piece of SQL and PHP code.

Below is the Sample 1, how the code looked in that post:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write("<i>Hello World!");
//-->
</script>

As you can see that the coloring, formatting is making the code stand out and there are also options like view plain, copy to clipboard, print.

I think i have around 5 posts that show code samples in the posts and here is how it looks.

Below is the Sample 2:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!–
document.write("<i>Hello World!");
//–>
</script>

I know every one would prefer the Sample 1 rather than the Sample 2.

As soon as i read the above mentioned post, i left a comment asking the author about the code format and found out that it can be done by just installing a wordpress plugin called SyntaxHighlighter Plus.

How to beautify code sample in your post using Syntax Highlighter Plus:

• Open a new post or Modify an existing post
• For ex: If i want to show javascript code, then just put javascript code in between [javascript/] your code.. [/javascript]
• Save the post

It supports following languages:

* Bash — bash, sh
* C++ — cpp, c, c++
* C# — c#, c-sharp, csharp
* CSS — css
* Delphi — delphi, pascal
* Java — java
* JavaScript — js, jscript, javascript
* PHP — php
* Python — py, python
* Ruby — rb, ruby, rails, ror
* SQL — sql
* VB — vb, vb.net
* XML/HTML — xml, html, xhtml, xslt

You can find more info about this plugin here

Download SyntaxHighlighter Plus

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CommentLuv Wordpress Plugin

I am big fan of CommentLuv Wordpress plugin developed by Andy Bailey from FiddyP. I published a post few months back on How to get more comments and visitors by using CommentLuv Plugin.

I am using CommentLuv plugin on this wordpress blog from May 2008. Andy got so many inputs from the bloggers for improving CommentLuv plugin and his zeal made him to improve the plugin. This week he has released a new version of CommentLuv called AjaxCommentLuv.

From CommentLuv:

CommentLuv and AjaxCommentLuv enable you to reward your blog readers by leaving a titled link to their last post automatically whenever they comment thus encouraging more comments by more people on more posts!

It has been found to increase comments and traffic to blogs and their commentators. It currently runs as a Wordpress or Drupal plugin with a new AJAX version coming soon compatible with a wide range of blogs.

The previous version of commentluv used to grab the last post of the commentator. But new verison of commentluv will allow the commentator to select any one of his/her from last 10 posts.

If you register your site for free at CommentLuv.com you will be able to open up lots of features that are for members only like link tracking so you can see which of the comments you make on CommentLuv blogs are getting the last blog post clicked. Do NOT enter a number if you do not have one

Steps to setup CommentLuv Plugin : (skip step 2 to 4 if you don’t want to register your site)

1. Download CommentLuv Plugin and upload and install it or you can use WP Easy Uploader Plugin to download CommentLuv plugin and install it
2. After the plugin is activated. Go to www.commentluv.com and Register yourself by inputting user id, email id and password and submitting the form. You will recieve an email to activate your id at commentluv.com.
3. Now login in commentluv.com and go to Settings page. There you will add your website by giving your website url and then you have to select a badge which is an image that you need to put in your homepage on the sidebar or footer.
4. Click on verify to get the badge verified then input your feed url for ex : http://feedproxy.google.com/Thinkersonmove
5. In your wordpress admin, Go to Settings -> CommentLuv. You will see below screenshot
   

   CommentLuv Plugin Settings

   Make appropriate changes and save it.

Read more about CommentLuv Plugin

I hope you will definitely install commentluv and see how it helps you in building a community.

If you have anything to say, do leave a comment.

You may also want to read my other posts:

• Broken Links Remover – A must Wordpress Plugin
• 5 Security Tips to Protect Wordpress Blog
• Increase comments on your blog using SezWho
• Give Reward to commentators – Use ‘NoFollow Free’ WP Plugin
• Best (must have) Wordpress Plugins

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Today, I will show you a very useful wordpress plugin that i discovered recently.

The name of this Wordpress plugin is Broken links Remover. Rajesh from TechBlissOnline has developed this great plugin. If you like this plugin you can vote for the plugin in the wordpress 2008 competition here

Broken Links Remover checks your posts for broken links. If it finds one then it will make that link as normal text so that your readers will not see any dead links.

This plugin will help keep your site clean by hiding all bad/broken links. As soon as it finds a bad or broken link, it will notify the link with appropriate post under Manage -> Bad Links Wordpress admin page. You can check below the snapshot of my blog, there are 5 pages of bad links. I have to go through all and correct it

Broken links Management page

Broken links are bad for your readers – Why?

Readers get miffed when they click a link that is a dead link or they get redirected to some other website or page.

This plugin will help you find out all dead links and links that are redirecting to some other page and fix it by directly linking to the correct link. Thus Broken links remover can help purify the web for both readers and search engines.

Broken links are bad for search engine robots – Why?

The search engines crawlers or bots use the links on a website’s pages to find other web pages on your site and other external sites. When it finds the link which turns out to be a dead link then your search engine rankings will more than likely be negatively affected in search engine result pages.

Broken links can degrade your rankings on a site wide basis. Search engines rank individual pages and not whole sites, but there are a few site wide ranking factors. Bad/Broken links is definitely one of those factors.

How does Broken links remover work?

Whenever a reader visits a post or page in your site or search engine crawls the page, Broken links remover wordpress plugin checks the status of all links on that post/page. If it finds any bad/dead/broken link, then the plugin will log the problematic link and the “Post ID”.

One more important point i want to mention is Broken Links Remover Plugin also works on blog with caching plugins installed.

You can read more details @ Broken links Remover wordpress plugin

Download Broken Links Remover Plugin

You may want to check my compilation of Best (must have) Wordpress Plugins

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