{"id":1116,"date":"2013-02-22T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T08:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordpressintegration.com\/blog\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2023-02-10T12:21:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T12:21:20","slug":"get-rid-of-comments-in-your-wordpress-site-some-tips-and-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordpressintegration.com\/blog\/get-rid-of-comments-in-your-wordpress-site-some-tips-and-hacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Get rid of comments in your WordPress site: Some tips and hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

As developers of WordPress in a challenging online market, we are constantly asked by our clients for an easy way to moderate comments. WordPress, being a highly user friendly content management system, has an option to individually unapprove, edit, or delete a comment. But consider this; nearly every popular or moderately popular WordPress site is bombarded with hundreds of spam comments all day. Nearly all of them use spam filters but even then tons of unapproved or wrongly approved comments per day are accumulated, and God forbid if you leave your site for a month or so, you will have a collection of hundreds of comments waiting for approval.<\/p>\n

If you go about deleting every single comment individually you won\u2019t have the time left for anything else. Therefore to alleviate this problem, here we present few tricks using which you can bulk moderate comments.<\/p>\n

Delete comments using plugins<\/h2>\n

There are a number of ways through which you can delete comments. Out of them the safest way is to use plugins. There are a number of plugins that can be used to moderate comments, each having its own advantages and disadvantages. Here we present a few plugins that can get the job done for you.<\/p>\n

WP Ajax Edit Comments<\/a><\/h4>\n

\"WP<\/p>\n

This plugin is used for allowing users to edit their comments for a short period of time. However it is a complete comment management solution that can be used to mass delete approved, unapproved, or spam comments. The plugin also has the feature to move the comments or blacklist it. This plugin is great for those who have some time to analyze the comments.<\/p>\n

Requires<\/strong>: WordPress 3.1 or higher|<\/strong>
\nCompatible up to<\/strong>: WordPress 3.5.1|<\/strong>
\nDownloads<\/strong>: 249,076<\/p>\n

Delete Pending Comments<\/a><\/h4>\n

\"Delete<\/p>\n

This plugin can delete all the pending unapproved comments. This plugin is a great option for those who face hundreds of spam comments monthly or daily. However it cannot identify legitimate comment from spam or irrelevant comments; to do that you have to personally check all the comments.<\/p>\n

Requires<\/strong>: WordPress 2.7 or higher|<\/strong>
\nCompatible up to<\/strong>: WordPress 3.0.5|<\/strong>
\nDownloads<\/strong>: 26,871<\/p>\n

Bulk Comment Remove<\/a><\/h4>\n

\"Bulk<\/p>\n

As the name suggests, Bulk Comment Remove can eliminate pending comments in mass. However, just like the previous plugin it won\u2019t delete the approved comments, neither can it identify relevant comments from spam ones.<\/p>\n

Requires<\/strong>: WordPress 3 or higher|<\/strong>
\nCompatible up to<\/strong>: WordPress 3.0.5|<\/strong>
\nDownloads<\/strong>: 19,628<\/p>\n

WPCommentCleaner<\/a><\/h4>\n

\"WPCommentCleaner\"<\/p>\n

WP Comment Cleaner can delete pending comments in bulk. But unlike the previously discussed plugins, it can delete approved, unapproved, and spam comments as well. It can\u2019t differentiae spam from genuine comments. Also this plugin is not tested for WordPress 3.5.1 or higher so it may break when used in them.<\/p>\n

Requires<\/strong>: WordPress 2.8 or higher|<\/strong>
\nCompatible up to<\/strong>: WordPress 3.4.2|<\/strong>
\nDownloads<\/strong>: 2,620<\/p>\n

Delete comments from WordPress dashboard<\/h2>\n

The main reason why WordPress is extremely popular is because it\u2019s highly user friendly. Being user friendly means it has native features to manage every aspect of functionality easily. Therefore just like every feature of WordPress, comments are also highly customizable. You can easily delete approved, unapproved, and spam comments right from the WordPress dashboard, that too in bulk. Just follow these few simple steps<\/p>\n