There is a new Air app coming which should delight any WordPress user. It is going to bring Comment moderation out of the dashboard and your email and into an app that you can monitor and respond to quickly and easily. This is going to be HUGE. Its not out yet, but it will be soon. And because its an Adobe Air app, it will be cross platform out of the box.
On launch it will be missing a few features that I hope the developer, Daniel Dura, will consider adding:
- Support for Multiple Blogs, since I don’t think you can run multiple instances of the same Air app at the same time. Besides who would want to?
- The ability to reply to a comment thread, instead of just moderation. This may mean adding support for unmoderated comments as well.
- A GPL / Open Source license. Can a geek dream?
Read more about it on his blog.
“since I don’t think you can run multiple instances of the same Air app at the same time. Besides who would want to?”
I would want to. I’ve come into 3 separate applications including 1 I’ve written alone where this would have been a very helpful feature.
The people who also logged this feature request would also like to as well… http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-12915
My point was that if the comment app allowed you to connect and manage multiple WP sites, you wouldn’t need to run multiple instances of the client. I run one IM client (Adium) that allows me to have multiple connections to difference accounts (even on the same service). This is the kind of approach I would expect my AIR apps to take, if indeed the need to run it more than once is a desirable feature.
I could see how some would want to do multiple instances, especially when the Air App is not open source, and the Developer won’t do it for you.
Thanks for jumping into this conversation!
- Eric Marden