Can’t delete multiple comments

benjy
(@benjy)

21 years, 5 months ago

So, I’ve been hit by a rash of comment spam on footballoutsiders.com , and I just installed a comment preview to try to diminish it. Anyway, I want to delete all the existing spam comments in the system, but I’m having trouble.
When I log in as admin, Edit/Comments/Mass Edit Mode/search for, say, “online poker”, I get a list of offending comments. If I click on Invert Checkbox Selections at the bottom to select all items in the list (or even if I check one or two), and then click Delete, I get nothing. The page just refreshes, with all the comments still there.
I can delete them one at a time, but that gets tedious after the first 100 or so 🙂
Anyone run across this before? Any suggestions?
thanks,
benjy

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kejia
(@kejia)

21 years, 5 months ago

I’m having exactly the same problem, yes. **Gnash, gnash**
So. Much. Spam.

Mark (podz)
(@podz)

21 years, 5 months ago

You could try installing Kittens Spam Words ?
That also features a mass ‘delete as spam’ button.
http://mookitty.co.uk/devblog/category/kittens-spam-words/

Anonymous

21 years, 4 months ago

Same problem here. Would seem like installing another feature is a bit of a cop out. Shouldn’t the given delete functionality work instead?

Mark (podz)
(@podz)

21 years, 4 months ago

If you install Spaminator as well, the spam will be silently killed (if you turn off email notification of the slaughter) and that’s got to be better than any delete button ?

Anonymous

21 years, 4 months ago

Sure, installing a spam eliminator is a great proactive approach. However, for those of us with tiny blogs with minimal traffic who never expected to get found and spammed, what we need is the solution to delete the spam now that it has arrived.
After spending a little time debugging, you need to add the following line in edit-comments.php:
$delete_comments = $_POST[‘delete_comments’];
In my file, it was on line 42. The end result with the before and after lines would look like:
<?php
$delete_comments = $_POST[‘delete_comments’];
if (!empty($delete_comments)) {
The root problem was that $delete_comments was not being populated with the post data and was thus not going into the routine to delete the comments.
Hope that helps someone!

Anonymous

21 years, 4 months ago

I also changed the LIMIT on line 68/69 from 20 to 100 to make it a little easier to delete the 300+ spam comments I had.
$comments = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $tablecomments ORDER BY comment_date DESC LIMIT 100”);

Mark (podz)
(@podz)

21 years, 4 months ago

“those of us with tiny blogs with minimal traffic who never expected to get found and spammed”
The spammers will google for files they know show a blog is installed.
Then they will hit you.
My daughter’s blog is linked from nowhere.
She does not ping.
She gets hit with spam.
She now has Spaminator and Spamwords installed, and they do the job very nicely indeed.
Up to you though…..

TechGnome
(@techgnome)

21 years, 4 months ago

podz – you still haven’t addressed the issue of being able to delete multiple comments….. spam aside, the multiple delete should work. It’s not a problem of preventing spam, but once hit, it owuld be nice to mass delete them.
TG

achilleas
(@achilleas)

21 years, 4 months ago

but mattsmith321 did adress it succesfully!! thanx matt. that line of code saved me 752 mouse clicks approximately…