Scan old comments for spam?

  • I recently disabled my Intense Debate plugin since it wasn’t marking many comments as spam. Now, the only problem is that I have a bunch of spam comments on my old posts. Is there any plugin out there that will scan all of my old comments and remove the spam?

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  • Thread Starter jshbbe

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    The Akismet plugin will do that.

    Thread Starter jshbbe

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    I have that installed, but it won’t scan approved comments. I have a lot of comments that somehow got approved, and now I need the spam sorted out of them.

    I was pretty sure Akismet had an option for rescanning the database. Anyway, it shouldn’t be too hard to get Akismet to scan approved comments. I just glanced at the plugin and it looks like you might be able to loop through your comments and run each one through akismet_auto_check_comment or at least crib the code for use in your own loop. You can also use the Akismet API directly. Its pretty straightforward.

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