After having my sites attacked by spam bots, I had a problem. Google thought my sites were malicious and had blacklisted me. I got together with my web host/tech guru, who helped me by essentially gutting the sites and allowing me to start over from the bottom up, but since I didn’t want to lose my content, there was an additional concern.
It seemed that, at least on some of the sites, I had thousands of already-approved spam comments, and they were causing issues with my hosting service. If you have WordPress, you know that the standard issue CMS doesn’t allow for bulk deletion of already-approved comments. What a huge pain!
Anyway, after much research and many hours of stressing, I figured it out! There’s a simple way to delete all spam comments in WordPress instantly–and almost anyone can do it.
Here’s what I found out.
How to Delete All Spam Comments in WordPress With a Few Simple Clicks
- Download and activate the Portable MyPHPAdmin plugin.
- Navigate to the plugin’s interface in your WordPress dashboard. (It’ll be on the left, below the “settings” button).
- Using the drop-down menu in the interface, select your database.
- Select “comments” in the left-side menu, then select “empty.”
That’s it! Once you’ve completed those steps (shouldn’t take more than a few minutes total), you can check your comment list and you’ll see that they’re all deleted.
Happy Blogging!
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