How Can I Delete thousands Of Spam Posts On My Website?

  • Resolved olakunle25

    (@olakunle25)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hello:
    Please can someone kindly give me some tips on how I can delete the thousands of spam posts now on my website. I have well over seven thousand of them. Deleting them manually is almost an impossible task. When I want to delete, I can only delete 22 at a time from the post menu on the dashboard. I have userroll editor installed, and I set the general settings of my site, to disallow anlyone from posting or writing anything on my site, or even registering.
    The problem was brought about by my installation of the SEO pack 2.2 plugin. I have since removed this plugin.
    So, please kindly give me some tips on how I can remove all these posts.

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  • Are the posts attached to an existing username, or did they create a new username to add them?

    If they were all created under a new user, you could delete the user and select the option to delete the posts.

    If that won’t work, how familiar are you with SQL?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Spam posts or spam comments?

    Thread Starter olakunle25

    (@olakunle25)

    Hello:
    I am back with this issue.
    The last time I posted this issue, I deleted the posts manually. There are now new spam posts. I have well over 5 thousand of them right now. I’ve deleted the users, and the posts associated with them. But the posts are still on my site: please how can I remove them. I can only remove 22 at a time. This manual removal is causing me real time and effort. Please kindly help out.

    Have a look at this plugin: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/bulk-delete/

    Thread Starter olakunle25

    (@olakunle25)

    Thanks: I’ve installed the bulk delete plugin, but I’ve found out that it is incompatible with Mozilla Firefox. I attempted using it twice, but it crashed my browser. Has anyone ever had this problem with this plugin or any other? if you have how did you get around it.
    Added to this, do you know of any plugin that blocks spam posts?
    Looking forward to reading your kind response.

    Thread Starter olakunle25

    (@olakunle25)

    Hello:
    The bulk delete plugin is very effective for deleting spam posts pages users and others. I had problems with the plugin, because my website’s server didn’t have file permissions, making it difficult for me to access plugins, and even doing updates successfully.
    But all that has now been resolved. I highly recommend the plugin.
    I thank you most sincerely for the information about the plugin.

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