How to delete spam comments and prevent future receipt?

[dksreeder]

In the last several days I have been receiving spam in the comments section. I have 100 pages of over 1000 "comments" and it is ALL spam. Is there a way to delete all of the comments?

The only way I have found is to mark each one individually. This will take too long. Also, how can I prevent future spam?

Thanks,

dksreeder

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You either need to go through them page by page, or you use a tool like phpMyAdmin to manually cleanup your "serendipity_comments" table.

You can click on "Invert Selection" at the bottom of the page to check all comments on that page, and then click on "delete" to delete those. Then you will see the next page of comments, and you can do that over and over again.

For preventing spam, using a recent version of the spamblock plugin can do miracles for you, if you configure it to suit your needs and match the spam you usually get.

Best regards,
Garvin