A trash comment is a comment that you have deleted from your WordPress site and have been moved to the trash. A trash comment is not visible in your site and should be deleted forever. You can either use our plugin Advanced Database Cleaner to clean-up these trash comments or execute the following SQL code…
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’
Pending comments are comments published by users and which are waiting for your approval before appearing in your site. In some cases, you will have to clean all these comments. You can either use our plugin Advanced Database Cleaner to clean-up these comments or execute the following SQL code (which is used by the plugin)…
WordPress automatically saves your post (or page) while you are editing it. This is called WordPress auto-draft. If you don’t hit the publish/update button, then the post/page will be saved as auto-draft and any modification to your post/page will not be visible in your public site. Over time, you could have multiple auto-drafts that you…
WordPress allows you to save a post or a page without having to publish it immediately. This way you can work on it as much as you want and publish it only when it is ready. This is called a WordPress draft. Over time, you could have multiple drafts that you will never publish and…
WordPress stores a record called revision of each saved draft or published update. This system allows you to see what changes were made in each post and page over time. However, as you use WordPress, this can lead to a lot of unnecessary overhead in your WordPress database, which consumes a lot of space and…
A scheduled task enables plugins to execute some actions at specified times, without having to manually execute code at that time. WordPress itself uses some scheduled tasks to perform some regular actions. However, some scheduled tasks may not be removed even if the responsible plugins are deleted from your WordPress installation. As you know, not…
It is always safe to clean-up your WordPress database if you use the appropriate tools. Our plugin Advanced Database Cleaner does not run any code that can break down your site or delete your posts, pages, comments, etc. However, either by using our plugin or other ones, we advise you to always make a database…
As you use WordPress, your database accumulates a lot of extra data such as revisions, spam comments, trashed comments, transients, etc. that make your site sluggish and bloated. Cleaning your WordPress database consists of removing this unnecessary data. This operation will reduce the size of your database and improve efficiency when accessing tables. In addition,…
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