{"id":18729780,"date":"2025-11-23T20:40:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/orphan-comments\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:40:55","slug":"orphan-comments","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/orphan-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphan comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does Optimize DB also take care of orphan comments?<br \/>With orphan comments I mean comments, which still exist in the DB although their parent has been deleted. E.g. comments which belong to a post or page, but the corresponding post or page is gone. Or (even more important for me) comments belonging to a deeply nested comment structure, where the first comment has been deleted.<br \/>Are those orphan comments removed during an Optimize DB run?<br \/>If not: Could that be done in a future version? Please. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18729780","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18729780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18729780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18729780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}