How to make Mass Edit Mode show more than 20 entries

heh i’m not sure how to change what you’re asking for, but one way to do it woudl be to go into phpmyadmin and delete in there. I believe you can set how many entries to show too.

well, a search found what I am looking for an indeed, teaches us all the important lesson – search before you post!

Anyway, the answer to my question is really easy, as Nuclear Moose explained last year:

go into wp-admin/edit-comments.php and at around line 68 or so, you’ll find this:
$comments = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $tablecomments ORDER BY comment_date DESC LIMIT 20”);
Change the ’20’ to whatever number you like.

Well, I changed mine to 200 and it works great.

There is a way to do this, and it requires an edit in one of the PHP files. I once set this to a very large number (250) so that I could delete a major spam attack. This was prior to having most of the great anti-spam plugins available.

I will poke around my failing memory and try and remember where I changed this.

Also, if there are any bored coders out there who would like something to do, this would be an excellent plugin! ??

Okay, I remembered!
You need to go to /wp-admin/edit-comments.php and look for this line:
$comments = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $tablecomments ORDER BY comment_date DESC LIMIT 20");

In my file, it was line 68. Change the 20 to whatever value you want. Be aware that loading a lot of comments will slow down page load time.

This is the plugin you’re looking for. Good timing really, it was only released two days ago.

https://www.coldforged.org/archives/2005/03/03/where-the-hell-are-my-comments/