4874 Spam Comments

I just deleted 4874 spam comments from the database. Wordpress crawled under the table and whimpered when I tried to use the normal interface, so I had to use PhpMyAdmin and figure out the database layout. Fortunately it wasn’t hard.

DELETE FROM `wp_comments` WHERE `comment_approved` = ‘0′

did the trick. I have now activated Akismet.

4 Responses to “4874 Spam Comments”

  1. JohnJo said:

    Apr 14, 07 at 11:26 am

    You were wise to activate Akismet. It works brilliantly.

  2. Dan said:

    May 17, 07 at 4:20 pm

    Yep. It’s already caught 1800 spam comments for me.

  3. Dan said:

    May 17, 07 at 4:38 pm

    Make that 5500.

  4. Gavin Ayling said:

    May 23, 07 at 7:53 pm

    That is quite a few comments… Oh, and since when did you start blogging again Mr?


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