Certainly, our Comments section is bloated with lot of Spam comments listed under Spam section and similarly there are Pending comments. If you want to get rid of all the Spam or Pending comments, then you can easily remove all of them at once in just a few clicks without the need to use the uneasy phpMyAdmin method.

Just install the WP-Optimize plugin directly from your WordPress Dashboard and activate it. To access it, just open the Dashboard drop-down menu and click on the “WP-Optimize” option. Now tick mark the desired option ‘Clean marked Spam comments’ or ‘Clean Unapproved comments’ (Pending comments). Click on the Process button.

Voila! All the Spam or Pending/Unapproved comments will get deleted instantly. You can deactivate this plugin later if you don’t want to use it frequently.

Update – I just noticed that we can easily bulk delete all the Spam comments in WordPress without using any plugin. To do so, go to Comments > Spam and click on the “Empty Spam” button. All the spam comments will get deleted.

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An exclusive way is discovered by us which will allow you to extract the email addresses, IP address and Name of all commentators from a specific post in WordPress.org.

Follow the step by step tutorial below carefully to extract Email address:

1. Login to cPanel (of your blog host).

2. Go to phpMyAdmin under Databases section.

3. Select your blog database from the left panel which may be marked as _wrdp1

4. Click on wp_comments from table in left hand side.

5. Now click on “Search” tab.

6. Open Options (in blue), Select comment_author, comment_author_email and comment_author_ip in the fields box. Tick mark ‘DISTINCT’ to remove the exactly similar entries (those with same name, email and IP address).

7. Input comment_post_id = xxxx under "Add search conditions (body of the "where" clause):" Replace xxxx with the post ID.

To find Post ID of a post, just login to your blog’s WordPress dashboard. Open ‘Posts’ and point your mouse over the preferred post. You’ll then see a link in the status bar of browser. Just note the no. next to post=xxx (For eg: Here it is 7260) as shown below:

8. Set Number of rows per page to 1000

9. Display order Ascending

10. Click ‘GO’ button. All queries will be sorted now.

11. Click Export button, select ‘CSV for MS Excel’ and tick mark ‘Save as file’. Click GO.

A MS Excel file will now be produced containing all the commentators name, IP and email address from a certain post. You can then find duplicate email and IP addresses and sort the invalid ones using Excel. Then you can copy all the email addresses and use Random.org to draw the giveaway winners.

This guide looks difficult in starting but you’ll find it really easy, once you get used to it. This post is specially for bloggers who conduct big giveaways on their blog.

Do share this tutorial if you find it useful.

Update – Sandip of BlogsDNA has provided us a source code which eliminates 6 steps and makes it real easy to do this task. Check below how to do it:

Go to phpMyAdmin and select your blog database. Now click on “SQL” tab. Input the below SQL query there and click the ‘Go’ button. You’ll now come straight to Step 11.

SELECT DISTINCT comment_author, comment_author_email, comment_author_IP
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT comment_author, comment_author_email, comment_author_IP
FROM wp_comments
WHERE `comment_post_ID` = ‘xxxx’
) AS WEBTRICKZ

Remember to Replace xxxx with your Post ID.

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First, make sure you’ve a backed up your blog database. Deactivate all Plugins and see if the issue is resolved. If this doesn’t works then follow the below tutorial:

Recommend Trick – I’ve tried it myself 2 times and it worked great.

To fix this issue, Login to your blog Cpanel (Control panel). Open the ‘My SQL Databases’ entry located under Databases box in cpanel.

Under Modify Databases, open drop-down menu of Repair DB: and select your blog database.

Click ‘Repair DB’ button and wait for repairing process to be completed.

Now open your blog and it must be working fine.

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