WordPress Comment Notifier is a desktop application for the Windows operating system that can – currently – monitor one WordPress blog for new comments.

The program displays a notification to the computer user whenever a new comment is posted on the blog. The comments are sorted automatically in the three categories approved, pending and spam which makes it easier for the WordPress user to manage them.

A double-click on the notifier window opens a bigger window that displays all approved, pending and spam comments of the WordPress blog. All comments can be edited, deleted, replied to, set as spam or no spam, unapproved and opened right from within the notifiers interface.

The notifier will check for new comments every five minutes. This interval can be changed in the options.

Configuration of the WordPress blog in the notifier is pretty straightforward. All that it takes is to enter the main url of the blog and a username and password of a user that is able to moderate comments. Those are by default either administrators or editors.

We would recommend to create a new user and use the login credentials of that user to moderate the comments.

WordPress comment Notifier can be downloaded from its Google Code project website. The program runs solid even and without problems. It would be great if the developer would add support for running multiple blogs in the notifier as it is currently only possible to configure and maintain one blog. (via Blogs DNA)

Another thing that is really annoying in WordPress 2.7 is the fact that you can either delete all comments on the page, selected comments or all spam comments at once. At 20 spam comments per page and thousands in total this can take a long time to flip through and delete.

The WordPress hack is actually quite easy to perform even for webmasters who have no knowledge whatsoever regarding html and php. The file that is responsible for the amount of comments that are displayed is called edit-comments.php. It can be found in the wp-admin folder. Make sure you backup that file before you apply the changes so that you can revert back if something should go wrong.

Locate the following line in the file, it should be around line 182 in the file:

$comments_per_page = apply_filters('comments_per_page', 20, $comment_status);

The only thing that you need to do is to change the figure 20 to another figure, e.g. 100 so that it looks like this:

$comments_per_page = apply_filters('comments_per_page', 100, $comment_status);

Just save the file again and check the display of the comments in the admin interface to make sure everything is working correctly.