Title: Exporting without Trackbacks
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Exporting without Trackbacks

 *  [opaun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opaun/)
 * (@opaun)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exporting-without-trackbacks/)
 * I’ve waited for far too long to change to WordPress. I’m still running MT 2.64,
   and I really want to make the switch. The only problem is that I have so much
   trackback spam that I can’t export my blog entries. There’s over 60,000.
 * Does anyone know how to export without the trackbacks?

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 *  [JeremyVisser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyvisser/)
 * (@jeremyvisser)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exporting-without-trackbacks/#post-464441)
 * Delete them first. Perhaps a MySQL query would come in handy.
 *  Thread Starter [opaun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opaun/)
 * (@opaun)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exporting-without-trackbacks/#post-464442)
 * I’d like to delete them, but other than clicking each item on each entry, I don’t
   know how. Could you direct me to a site that might explain how to do that using
   MySQL? My programming knowledge doesn’t extend much beyond the CSS that I learned
   three years ago when I created the site 🙂
 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exporting-without-trackbacks/#post-464443)
 * `DELETE FROM table_name WHERE somecolumn='something'`
 * Not sure on the `WHERE` syntax as I’ve never used MT, but basically you want 
   to do where comment type = trackback. Oh, and **make sure to backup first!!!**
   You don’t want to delete any comments or anything after all. 😉
 * [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/delete.html](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/delete.html)
 *  Thread Starter [opaun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opaun/)
 * (@opaun)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exporting-without-trackbacks/#post-464709)
 * Thanks for the reference. Unfortunately, part of the problem is that I can’t 
   backup, I have so many spam trackbacks that it always crashes when I try.
 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exporting-without-trackbacks/#post-464745)
 * **As we said**, delete the spam trackbacks before backing up.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exporting-without-trackbacks/#post-464745)
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