Deleting large number of spams

  • I neglected my site, and now I’ve 15,000 spams in the moderation. It’s so big that the moderation page won’t even load.

    How in the world do I get rid of these? In the old version of WordPress, the Mass Edit mode helped me handle this. I could search for a common spam word, which would load a few hundred comments. At that pace, I could wipe out the spam pretty quickly.

    From what I can tell, that doesn’t work with 2.2. The mass edit mode will only load 20 comments to a page. Deleting 15,000 in group of 20 will take forever.

    Help!

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

  • Egads, Taprice. I feel your pain.

    Do you have access to PHPMyAdmin (through your site’s control panel)? If so, you can quickly view and delete the spam messages in groups of any size.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)
  • The topic ‘Deleting large number of spams’ is closed to new replies.