how to delete ALL the pending comments in one stroke

  • Believe it or not, I have 11,000 comments waiting to be reviewed and it all looks like spam, of course.

    I just want it all gone. Even if there is some legitimate comment in there, it’s not worth anybody’s time to sort through that mess to find them.

    So my question is: how do I delete them all in an efficient way. I know I can delete 20 at a time using the bulk action “mark as spam.” Is there a better way?

    Thanks!

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  • Hi,

    To delete all the pending comments in one stroke please go through these steps:

    1) Login into wordpress admin.
    2) On the dashboard there is a edit comments box in which they are displaying pending comments number. Or from the comments section there is a view of comments options…click pending to view all pending comments.
    3) select the check box for all pending comments and from the bulk action delete.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    If you install Akismet, it has an option to scan the queue for spam and automatically handle it. That would be the quickest way: one button press.

    Or just use https://www.nkuttler.de/wordpress/delete-pending-comments/ (new)

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