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I just released a minor update of WP Mollom with some bugfixes. This is the changelog:

• Fixed: minor issues with the Captcha not being rendered correctly
• Added: mollom_manage_wp_queue() function which adds Mollom support to the default comment administration panel
• Improved: updating from a previous version is now more robust

More info and download on WordPress Extend

These two weren’t the best friends over the past couple of weeks. Since someone notified me they weren’t compatible, it took some time to figure out what was going wrong. My initial suspects was an icky way of dealing with the action hooks. Either by my plugin or WP OpenID. But after extensive testing, I concluded that the order in which the action hooks call the different plugin functions, wasn’t problem.

Today, I had an e-mail discussion with Dries and Benjamin over the use of a moderation queue within the context Mollom provides. I have on implemented in my plugin. The idea is that ‘unsure’ comments that don’t get through the CAPTCHA test, land in a moderation queue… sort of.

Mollom was actually designed to get rid of the queue. Checking if a commenter is human or a spambot happens through the CAPTCHA test. Early on in the process of posting a comment. That makes a queue where an administrator has to do the check after the facts quite unnecessary.