This week has seen a flurry of releases with updates to Postmatic, Epoch, as well as Crowd Control. Here’s a quick recap of the best of what’s new.
Get access to support from right inside Postmatic
Starting today all of these resources are available right inside your WordPress dashboard. Just visit Settings > Postmatic and look for the orange help button in the lower-right corner. If you don’t find what you need you can submit a ticket as well.
Nice integration between Postmatic, Epoch, and Crowd Control
Last week we released a little plugin named Crowd Control. It lets you rope in your readers to help with comment moderation so you can, say, go on vacation. When a comment has been flagged enough times by your readers it is sent back to moderation and you’ll get an email notice about it. With Crowd Control 1.0.1 these emails are sent through Postmatic where you can then take action (trash, spam, reply) right from your inbox.
Users of Epoch will also get some improved styling when running Crowd Control. We have even more planned on this front. Stay tuned.
Front end comment moderation comes to Epoch
This was release last week as well, but the 1.0.7 release that shipped today really wraps it up. WordPress users with the ability to moderate comments can now do so from the front end of the site using Epoch. It’s lightning fast but also very convenient: moderating comments is much easier when you can see them in context. Have a look in this screencast.
Speaking of comment moderation…
There is a new plugin on the scene that we helped build with Stephen Cronin called Show Parent Comment. For those of you that like to moderate your comments from your WordPress dashboard you’re going to check it out.
Show Parent Comment solves an old problem in a simple way: when moderating comments in WordPress it’s impossible to know what the comment was in reply to. Here’s how it looks with Show Parent Comment enabled:
The parent comment is placed above the reply, styled with blockquotes, and expand/contractible to save space. Very simple.
Another interesting Postmatic integration just dropped in the plugin repo so I need to get started on the next post announcing that one! More tomorrow.