Uses wp_cron to delete comments each day that are marked “spam” in the database.
| Author: | Brock Angelo (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.1.0 |
| WordPress version tested: | 2.7.1 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0.2 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 25-05-2009 |
| Last updated: | 28-05-2009
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 100 |
| Rated by: | 1 |
| Plugin URI: | http://brockangelo.com/wordpress/plugins/dele... |
| Total downloads: | 8 628 |
| Active installs: | 100+ |
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This plugin schedules a daily event using wp_cron that deletes all comments marked "spam" in the database, then optimizes the comments table.
Brief reason why I made such a low-tech plugin:
Akismet catches all the spam, but when I was looking at the size of my backups one day, I noticed that there were large numbers of comment spam across several sites that were undeleted and they made the databases fairly large. So I setup a cron job on my server that deletes the spam.
Since I had never written a plugin, I thought this might be helpful for those who do not have a dedicated server, shell access to their site, or the knowledge of (or interest in ) cron to set this up.
Spam is not deleted until you start the schedule after the plugin is activated. I created buttons to start and stop the schedule if you need that layer of control. There is also a button for deleting all spam manually.
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