wordpress-comments

An External Web Interface for approving pending WordPress comments via XMLRPC

Why an external comments admin?

The job of approving comments sometimes falls on a person who does/should not have access to the WordPress admin. By design WordPress only allows a user with admin privileges to do this job. This application provides way to do this outside of WordPress.

Requirements

Runs on PHP and AJAX. Wordpress 2.7 required.

Set Up

Download latest version from code.google.com/p/wordpress-comments.
Edit config.php and enter you website url to xmlrpc and admin account info.
Upload wordpress-comments to your server and point to it in the browser.
Since an admin account info is on the config file, it is recommended you create an admin account just for approving comments and also password protect the directory.

Usage

Updating a message status A list of all pending comments should appear. To Approve, Delete or set comment as Spam simply press the dedicated button at the botom of each comment. There is no way to do bulk edits but everything happens via ajax so it is fairly fast.

Replying to a message To reply to a specific comment, click on the arrow icon to the right of the comment, fill out the message and submit the response. The original message is first approved and then your reply will be posted as a new threaded comment. Your theme might need to be updated to make use of WordPress 2.7 new threaded comments. The reply comment will be posted as a comment by the admin account in the config file.

Screencast

Screencast available on YouTube.