Olly - OWMC

Many people use WP as a fully fledged CMS, building sites which don’t even have a blog. In such cases, the WP comments functionality is a waste of pixels and needs completely removing. Comment Crusher was made to quickly and thoroughly clear your install of every trace of comment functionality.
For many years I have used this collection of hooks to achieve this end. So came the idea to put it in a plugin and make it available to the masses. Simply activate this plugin and never worry about comments again.
When activated, even though all pre-existing comments on your site won’t be visible, they do still exist in your database. This plugin doesn’t delete them. And so deactivating the plugin will restore full comments functionality and reveal all previous comments again.
This plugin does not collect any data, neither does it modify your database.
<ul>
<li>Disable comment and trackback support from all post-types</li>
<li>Deactivate comments and pings on the front end</li>
<li>Hide all existing comments</li>
<li>Remove the comment metabox from the dashboard</li>
<li>Remove comments link from the toolbar</li>
<li>Remove the admin menu link for comments</li>
<li>Redirect anyone trying to access the comments admin page </li>
</ul>
This plugin was built using the <a href="https://wppb.me" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Plugin Boilerplate</a> and the custom functionality code I think goes back to <a href="https://gist.github.com/mattclements/10a997775894c7a0eba1" rel="nofollow ugc">Matt Clements in 2013</a>.

Comment Crusher

Disable and remove comments on your WP site.

Sudar Muthu

This plugin is a quick way to delete all pending and spam comments. It’s useful for victims of spammer attacks.
After installing the plugin go to Comments -> Delete Pending Comments and follow the instructions to delete all the pending comments.
<h3>Credits</h3>
This plugin was originally developed by <a href="http://www.nkuttler.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Nicolas Kuttler</a> and he maintained it till June 24, 2020.
From June 24, 2020, <a href="https://sudarmuthu.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Sudar Muthu</a> took over the development and maintenance of the plugin.

Delete Pending Comments

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Apparenty no longer works...

'There's a plugin for everything', sure, but this one solved a problem I've been having for a LONG time... Thanks!

Easy and quick, almost as if nothing happened at all :)

AWESOME

A quick way to delete all pending and spam comments. Useful for victims of spammer attacks.

Comment Crusher vs Delete Pending Comments