Mark Jaquith

Comment management in WordPress isn’t too hard when you manually approve each comment. You know which comments you’ve seen, and which you haven’t. The only downside is that you have to approve the comments before they appear. Comment Inbox gives you the ease of the moderation queue with the freedom of unmoderated comments. It’s a better way to deal with spam and bacn on your blog.
Here’s how it works:
<ul>
<li>All comments except caught spam go into moderation (renamed “Comment Inbox”)</li>
<li>All comments in your Comment Inbox immediately show up on the blog — so conversations don’t wait on your moderation skills</li>
<li>There are three actions that can be performed on comments in your Comment Inbox: Archive (i.e. mark as read), Spam, Delete</li>
<li>When your Comment Inbox is empty, you can rest easy knowing you’ve dealt with all your new comments</li>
</ul>
For the history of this plugin, please see <a href="http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/the-comment-inbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">The Comment Inbox</a>.

Comment Inbox

Enables a "Comment Inbox" that gives you the power of a moderation queue without having to manually approve every comment.

Lamansky

WordPress Tweaks is a powerful yet simple plugin to help you push the boundaries of WordPress by fine-tuning its many aspects. This multi-purpose plugin specializes in simple toggle-on/off changes and dropdown selections. It adds many useful settings pertaining to comments, posts, media, the administration back-end, and much more. Some tweaks can even replace plugins that you may already have installed.
The WordPress Tweaks plugin adds a “Tweaks” page to your “Settings” menu. Each individual tweak can be enabled/disabled at will using a checkbox or dropdown. An instant search bar makes it a snap to find the tweak you’re looking for.
The tweaks are as follows:
<ul>
<li>Admin
<ul>
<li>Disable the admin bar on the front-end</li>
<li>Disable the Dashboard</li>
<li>Disable tag autocomplete</li>
<li>Disable WordPress’s admin footer text/links</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Comments and Pings
<ul>
<li>Disable self-pinging</li>
<li>Dofollow comment author links</li>
<li>Dofollow comment body links</li>
<li>Open external comment links in new windows</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Media
<ul>
<li>Default media inserter tab (options: From Computer, From URL, Gallery, Media Library)</li>
<li>JPEG Quality</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Multisite
<ul>
<li>Let site admins edit the “Update Services” list</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Posts
<ul>
<li>Disable post revisions</li>
<li>Force excerpts on archives</li>
<li>Open external post links in new windows</li>
<li>Add a “Continue reading” link to excerpts</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Updates
<ul>
<li>Core update auto-installation (options: disabled, minor only, major and minor)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-tweaks.zip" rel="nofollow ugc">Download it now</a> and begin tweaking!
Supported Languages: English, Spanish, and Polish

WordPress Tweaks

Adds many must-have options for tweaking comments, posts, media, multisite, the administration back-end, and more.

Comment Inbox vs WordPress Tweaks