Blog Catalog Discussion: Pls tell me how to delete spam in wordpress

denharsh on 'Pls tell me how to delete spam in wordpress'

denharsh — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:28:11 -0500

Install intensedebate which has inbuilt plugin as optional which will take care of spam...:)

richardm on 'Pls tell me how to delete spam in wordpress'

richardm — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:36:55 -0500

What post i couldn't read it through all the ads and the annoying full page ad.

bradhart on 'Pls tell me how to delete spam in wordpress'

bradhart — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:03:05 -0500

or you could simply read the post I linked to...

richardm on 'Pls tell me how to delete spam in wordpress'

richardm — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:52:08 -0500

You could also install the re-captcha plugin, that's where people have to type in 2 words before there comment is posted.

richardm on 'Pls tell me how to delete spam in wordpress'

richardm — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:50:43 -0500

You could moderate all comments, you may just have to delete comments 100 at a time.

bradhart on 'Pls tell me how to delete spam in wordpress'

bradhart — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:55:42 -0500

http://bloggingfornoobs.com/spam/reduce-your-comment-spam/

JDh888 on 'Pls tell me how to delete spam in wordpress'

JDh888 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:32:06 -0500

wow, i've done those things and still ...

i guess i'm screwed

i will updgrade and ask wp support

SomeMuslimMan on 'Pls tell me how to delete spam in wordpress'

SomeMuslimMan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:07:47 -0500

This is tough indeed! My suggestions are:
1. You need to upgrade to latest WP
2. Activate 'Akismet Plugin' which came with WP by default
3. Check WP documentation and take your time while reading
http://codex.wordpress.org/Working_with_WordPress#Fighting_Comment_Spam

Effigy on 'Pls tell me how to delete spam in wordpress'

Effigy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:51:42 -0500

Not sure about the answer to your first question. I'm sure there's probably a way to do this in mysql, but I wouldn't know what tables to look at in the DB for it. As for your second question, I highly recommend you install the plugin Akismet. It'll really help you with spam catching. Bonus: you can set it to auto delete spam it has caught and is holding after x number of days. That way you wont come back to your blog after a month and find that much crap waiting for you.

AngieSS on 'Pls tell me how to delete spam in wordpress'

AngieSS — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:49:10 -0500

I'm sorry. I use wordpress, but I have no idea. I get up every morning and delete it then. This would be useful though for when you are on vaca. I hope someone knowledgeable will chime in soon. Have you googled it?

jaffermaniar on 'Pls tell me how to delete spam in wordpress'

jaffermaniar — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:48:27 -0500

Wow ! That's tough ! I really can't think of anything else - except try using a faster computer.

You may want to try posting this question to the Wordpress forums. http://wordpress.org/support/

JDh888 on 'Pls tell me how to delete spam in wordpress'

JDh888 — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:28:11 -0500

DO you have a spam problem? I do.

So due to various real world concerns i took a sabbatical from blogging for a month or so. When i woke up and came back i had 7800 spam messages in my moderation inbox. So many, in fact, that the page will not load. So in essence i cannot get to my moderation page. Even if i could, WP 2.4 which i'm on, only allows you to delete spam 100 at a time to my knowledge ... which would mean paging through 78 pages of crap.

First question: anyone have any ideas on how to delete this spam?

Second question: is there anything i can do to limit or better manage spam going forward?