Comments on: Reduce Database Backup Size: Delete Akismet Blocked Spam

By: Mightee

Mightee — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:13:45 +0000

400,000 of spam comments? :O
are you serious mate?
y didn’t you delete them regularly?
by the way thanks for great tips :)

By: Sankar

Sankar — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:04:26 +0000

You are awesome. with spam comments my back up file size is 2.4MB. After deletion size became to 1.9MB.

Thanks
Sankar

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:15:51 +0000

Thanks for the heads up.
My blog is new and I can see that I am slowly building up the amount of spam that Akismet picks up.
A great plugin that I check every day.
With Google using page load speed as one of its metrics, it makes sense to keep the database size down.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:39:47 +0000

WordPress must have changed this because I have 2.8 and there is no spam in my database.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:12:57 +0000

I just wish there was a way from within the wordpress program to disable the storage of comments marked spam….!

Oh well in the mean time, here is a PHP file I made to clean up the spam!

By: Asuka

Asuka — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:59:27 +0000

I solved my problem by going in the database and deleting all the comments. The strange thing is I only say my regular and approved comments. Where are the filtered comments stored?

By: Asuka

Asuka — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:21:19 +0000

My blog’s host (freehostia has blocked my site because their is spam comments containing key words that get you blocked automatically)Is there a way to delete these comments right from the database or I absolutely need to be able to log on to my blog and manally delete the spam comment. I also use the Akismet plugin. I’m so stuck because I can’t find anything on the subject. Any help would be apreceiated.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:28:14 +0000

Any tips for a person that desperately needs to use a backup file that is chock full of spam comments that weren’t finally zapped before the backup was made? PhpMyAdmin doesn’t even want to take the text of all of this and I know that my legit comments are not what is clogging it up. What are the syntax clues that the Akismet crap is starting?

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:29:44 +0000

I delete Spam comments on a daily basis. I feel thats the best way to clear it, otherwise once it gets to more than 1000, you can’t even check if there was any genuine comment caught by Akismet.

By: Dj Flush

Dj Flush — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:34:30 +0000

Nice tip :D

Thanks for sharing. I currently have 8k Spam :O