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What are WordPress spam comments and how to clean them?

Younes JFR.

A WordPress spam comment is a comment that you (or a plugin like Akismet) have marked as spam.

You can either use our plugin Advanced Database Cleaner to clean-up these spam comments or execute the following SQL code (which is used by the plugin) directly via your phpMyAdmin:

DELETE FROM comments WHERE comment_approved = 'spam'