Visitors to our WordPress blog leave comments one our blog entries to express their opinion. We can greatly benefit from these comments by learning what is it that our readers think of our current posts, how can we can improve our blog posts, or perhaps what aspects were overlooked of a certain issue we discussed.

Whilst there are numerous notifications programs for services such as email and instant messaging, I had not found a similar service for blogs and the comments which were left on it. Thankfully however a friend of mine recently introduced me to wp-comments-notifier.

Written in QT/C++, this program is sized at 3MB and compatible with Windows operating systems. Its function is quite simple and immensely useful: it alerts you when new comments are posted on your WordPress blog. wp-comments-notifier works with WordPress MU as well.

Setting up the application is quite simple. On the first

run we are required to enter our blog’s URL, our WordPress username and password.

Once our information has been verified and the application set up, the application monitors our blog’s comments from the System Tray. In the event of any new comments, a notification is shown with the System Tray icon.

Perhaps the best feature is that we can view and edit the comments right from our desktop, rather than opening the webpage in an internet browser.

wp-comments-notifier is certainly a must-have application for all regular WordPress bloggers. If you blog on the WordPress platform, try out this application right away and let me know in the comments what you thought about it.