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Normally, if you want to moderate your blog comments, most of us usually login to WordPress Admin to check for any new comments awaiting to be moderated. Now you don't have to do that because there is a plugin can help you to view and moderate your blog comments directly from your desktop.

That plugin is Moderator - written by Daniel Dura. It's not only a WP plugin but also an application that notifies whenever there is a new comment submitted on your blog, something similar to Yahoo Messenger or Gtalk.

Plugin Features:

• 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.

Requirements

Moderator currently requires version 2.6+ of WordPress be installed. Also, you will need Adobe AIR 1.1, which runs on Mac, Windows, and is currently in beta on Linux.

Installation

1. Download the current plugin bundle from here. (moderator_plugin.zip | 72KB)
2. Unzip the contents of the archive and place them in your WordPress install directory under {wordpress install}/wp-content/plugins. You should now have a directory called ‘moderator’ in the plugins folder.
3. Login to your 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.

I think this is a very useful plugin that you can start using to make your comment moderation easily!

With a port of the SE G700/G900 Flash firmware support, our P1i can now play swf files (not flv files yet) . A big thanks to SWmail - a super  modder/hacker for UIQ3, you can visit his site to try more intersting mods here.

This mod intended to play Flash contents on Opera Mobile on SE UIQ3 smartphones.

Tested on: P1i (R6G04/R9K009/GW1), P990i (R9GA001/R6E28), M600i, W950i, W960i
Note: G700/G900 smartphones with last firmware already have FlashPlugin.

Installation: (taken from swmail's readme):

• Install CapsSwitch and SIS installer mod for Symbian 9.1
• Download archive with the program from http://www.agathosyne.de/files_ext/FlashPlugin.zip
• Install FlashPlugin.

Now you can play flash from your smartphone's by using Opera opens link like 'd:/myflash/flash.swf' but before opening, you must do the following:

• Start Opera
• Go to More >> Settings >> Configuration >> and tick "Allow Plugins"

Enjoy Flash support! And if you like SWMail's work, you can donate to encourage him to continue

PS: after testing on my P1i, I realize that this mod could make the phone play swf files only with small size (less than 2MB), if you play a larger files, the quality will not be very smooth.

MailPress allows you to send any e-mail notification issued for comments subscribers, your periodic newsletters (per post/daily/weekly/monthly) and some specific admin events : registration of a new user, comment to moderate, new comment on your posts in styled html or plain text mails based on dedicated themes and templates.

Several add-ons are available as zip files in the mailpress folder. They are in fact WordPress plugins interacting with MailPress. The basic idea is to keep the core of MailPress as stable as possible and to use the WordPress API to propose some add-ons, making MailPress completely scalable to your needs.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.6+
Source: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailpress/

FTP Plugin for WP Database Backup Plugin

This plugin adds a fourth way to save the database backup files from the WP DB Backup Plugin of Austin Matzko, Scott Merril and other authors. With the standard WP Database Backup plugin you can save the database tables of your weblog a file. This backup file can stored on the server of your weblog, send to an email account or saved (manually) to your local harddisk.

Offline Mode

This plugin enable admin to put up a splash page to show that the site is down for maintenance. Come with a timer to tell how long the site is down. User can customize their own splash screen or get a list of splash screen from author’s site.

Custom Post Template

Provides a drop-down to select different templates for posts from the post edit screen. The templates replace single.php for the specified post.

Resize at Upload

By using this plugin you can resize all your images when you upload them to your WordPress installation. It lets you specify the maximum width according to which it resizes your images keeping the aspect ratio proportional.

Add Post Footer Plugin

Automatically add any custom paragraph, HTML code, advertising codes, technorati tags and/or related links list to the end of every posts. All global options are fully customized via WordPress admin options.

Albumize

This plugin lets you display the images uploaded through the WordPress gallery option in different albums. By organizing your galleries as multiple child pages of one parent page, you can use this plugin to see a preview thumbnail and description of each gallery.

Different Posts per Page

This plugin provides you with freedom to have total control over the number of posts you want to show in home, category, archive or any specific pages of wordpress.

WP Greet Box

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it.

Automatic SEO Links

Forget to put manually your links, just choose a word and a URL and this plugin will replace all matches in the posts of your blog. You can set the title of the link, target, rel and also you can know every moment how many times a word has been changed.

Advanced Code Editor

Integrates the EditArea advanced code editor into WordPress. This adds real time syntax highlighting, line numbering, full screen editing, and more to the code editor to the “Add New Post” and “Add New Page” screens.

CompactRSS

This plug-in makes it possible to exclude certain parts of your posts in your feeds.

Eventr

Eventr lets you create events and provides your visitors with a form that lets them register for the event. There is also an option to show the entire attendee list to blog vistors as well.

K2 Hook Up

K2 Hook Up exposes the seven hooks in K2 theme to the admin as friendly input boxes, where you place any HTML, CSS, JavaScript or PHP code (including template tags, other WordPress functions, or even code from other plugins) that you like.

WP-Niceforms

Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones.

SuperSlider-Show

Animated Gallery slideshow uses Mootools 1.2 javascript replaces WordPress gallery with a slideshow.

Use Google Libraries

A number of the javascript libraries distributed with WordPress are also hosted on Google’s AJAX Libraries API. This plugin allows your WordPress site to use the content distribution network side of Google’s AJAX Library API, rather than serving these files from your WordPress install directly.

Webcollage

Displays a collage or quilt of screen shots of the websites that you link or specify in your WordPress blogroll. After installing and activating the plugin, insert the tag “[webcollage]” (without quotes) in any post or page where you’d like to display the collage. Webcollage uses websnapr.com’s screen shot generation service.

JS AntiSpam

Simple antispam plugin without questions on Javascript-solution. Without JS-Solutions give it an textbox.

Breadcrumb NavXT

Adds breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor’s path to their current location.

Stumble! for WordPress

Stumble! for WordPress extends WordPress to support a “random article” feature, similar to StumbleUpon’s StumbleThru and Wikipedia’s (Mediawiki’s) random article feature.

Subscriber2 provides a comprehensive subscription management system for your WordPress blogs. It provides two levels of subscription:

• Registered Subscribers
• Public Subscribers

Administators have several management functions including configuration of the email templates used for new post notifications and (un)subscription requests. Administrators can also subscribe or unsubscribe users, as well as send out an email to all confirmed subscribers.

Version 4.11 of the Plugin is now available for download.

Version 4.11 is for 2.6.x users. (Although it should work with WordPress 2.5 and hopefully 2.7 too!) This version has been tested on WordPress 2.6.2, 2.7-almost-beta and WordPress MU 2.6.2.

Users of WordPress 2.0.x should download Version 2.22 of Subscribe2. Users of WordPress 2.1.x and 2.2.x should download Version 3.8.

Search Everything increases the ability of the default WordPress Search with little setup, options included:

• Search Every Page, Tag, Category
• Search non-password protected pages only
• Search Every Comment, approved comments
• Search Every Draft, Excerpt, Attachment
• Search Every Custom Field (metadata)
• Exclude Posts from search, Categories from search

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.1+
Source: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/

Social bookmarking has become more and more popular on the internet. According to this trend, our WordPress has also plugins that help us to accomplish this without putting forth too much effort.

Social Bookmarking

This concept is pretty simple. Social Bookmarking is when people who like your product (articles) literally bookmark that product on a Social Networking site. StumbleUpon, for example, lets users setup an account and bookmark sites. With Digg, users submit their product and people can digg (favourite) it, as well as comment and further share it.

WordPress Plugins

• Sociable
• Del.icio.us - Bookmark this!
• Digg This
• WP-Flickr
• StumbleUpon It!
• ShareThis 2.0

I chose Sociable (the first one above) for my blog because this plugin is very easy to use, it supports actually 96 social sites (include email and print links) so your readers can bookmark your articles quickly. But why did I put a few of them ? Because too many icons will make you blog be in confusion so I choose those I think it's popular.