Andreas Ostheimer

<p><strong>Delete & Disable Comments</strong> gives WordPress administrators a focused screen for comment cleanup and comment shutdown tasks. Open it under <strong>Tools <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Delete & Disable Comments</strong>.</p>
<p>Many older sites collect spam comments, unused discussion threads, or imported comment data that no longer belongs on the site. This plugin keeps those maintenance actions in one place without asking you to edit the database manually.</p>
<h4>Why use it?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Delete all comments marked as spam after confirmation.</li>
<li>Delete all comments after confirmation.</li>
<li>Download a CSV backup before deleting all comments.</li>
<li>Disable comments site-wide with a single toggle.</li>
<li>Close comments and pings on existing posts when disable mode is active.</li>
<li>Use a standard WordPress admin screen available only to administrators.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Common use cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Remove accumulated spam comments from a site.</li>
<li>Prepare a site that no longer accepts discussion.</li>
<li>Clean comments before a redesign, migration, or client handover.</li>
<li>Download a CSV copy of comment data before permanent deletion.</li>
<li>Close open comment status on existing posts without triggering <code>save_post</code> hooks.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What Disable Comments does</h4>
<p>The <strong>Disable Comments</strong> toggle changes the site’s comment behavior. When enabled, it sets WordPress defaults for new content to closed, prevents new comment and ping submissions, hides front-end comment output, removes comment-related UI, blocks comment REST endpoints, unregisters comment-related blocks, and removes the recent comments widget.</p>
<p>It does <strong>not</strong> delete existing comments. It also does not run a scheduled cleanup. If existing posts still have open comment or ping status, the admin screen shows a maintenance notice with a <strong>Close all comments now</strong> button. That button performs one direct SQL update to close those fields and avoids per-post <code>save_post</code> hooks, which is useful for sites using WPML, Yoast SEO, Polylang, or other plugins that listen to post updates.</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>The plugin ships with gettext translation files for broad EU language support, including German and additional EU locales. WordPress loads the matching <code>.mo</code> file automatically based on the site language. Text domain: <code>delete-disable-comments</code>.</p>


Delete & Disable Comments

Clean up spam, delete all comments with CSV backup, or disable comments site-wide from one admin screen.

Manish Kumar Agarwal

<p>Ger advance version <a href="http://youngtechleads.com/wordpress-database-cleaner/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Database Cleaner</a></p>
<p>If you are a WordPress site owner then you are definitely aware that everyday more than 20-30 SPAM comments are posting in your site’s different posts. And if you do not delete these spam comments then database size going heavy day after day. So to have database size lighter you have to remove unnecessary spam comments. To do so you have to go to comments listing and delete all the spam comments.</p>
<p>But we are living in advance age and here every thing should be advance. We have created a plugin which will do the same job on behalf of you 🙂</p>
<h4>What this plugin does?</h4>
<pre><code>This plugin basically delete all spam comments of your WordPress site in a regular time interval. All you need to do is:
* Download and Install the Spam Comments Cleaner plugin.
* Go to settings >> WordPress Spam Delete options page
* Select your suitable time option to delete spam comments in a regular time interval.
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<h4>Features of this plugin:</h4>
<pre><code>All possible time interval available:
* Delete Now
* Delete after 1 minute
* Delete in every hour.
* Delete once in a day in a regular manner.
* Delete twice in a day in a regular manner.
* Delete once in a week in a regular manner.
* Delete once in a month in a regular manner.
* Delete twice in a month in a regular manner.
* Delete every day at your custom set time.
* Stop spam comments delete.
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<p>Secure and Light weight, very simple and less coding effort.<br />
All you need to do is click on suitable time interval button.<br />
To delete spam comments at your suitable time text-box available to provide custom time in hr:mm format.<br />
For debugging purpose provided button to delete spam in next one(1) minute.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ol>
<li>No more need to go to the comments list and delete SPAM comments manually.</li>
<li>Delete spam comment now.</li>
<li>Delete spam comment cron job can be schedule to hourly.</li>
<li>Delete spam comment cron job can be schedule to daily.</li>
<li>Delete spam comment cron job can be schedule to twice in a day.</li>
<li>Delete spam comment cron job can be schedule to weekly.</li>
<li>Delete spam comment cron job can be schedule to monthly.</li>
<li>Delete spam comment cron job can be schedule to twice in a month.</li>
<li>Delete spam comment cron job can be schedule to user(admin) defined time.</li>
<li>Secure and light weighted plugin.</li>
</ol>


Spam Comments Cleaner

Fastest way to delete comments! Much faster than the "Clear Spam" button in Wordpress' default comment functionality... Had over 50k spam comments and they were deleted within a few seconds while Wordpress' native delete spam comments failed and errored out!



Fast!

Using in my all Projects

Delete all the SPAM comments of your WordPress site in a regular time interval. To start the scheduled script this plugin using wp_cron hook.

Delete & Disable Comments vs Spam Comments Cleaner