If a spam comment has been posted to your site
you can mark it as spam simply by hovering your cursor over the comment and
clicking the Spam link. If you’re
using the Akismet plugin and you come across a spam comment that Akismet
missed, marking it as spam will help Akismet learn and it will be less likely
to miss similar spam in the future.
If you simply want to remove
a comment, hover your cursor over it and click the Trash link.
To empty the Trash, click on
the Trash link at the top of the page
to display all the comments that have been marked as Trash. This link will be
displayed along with a number within brackets which indicates how many comments
are marked as Trash. To permanently remove all these comments, click the Empty Trash button. You will not be
prompted for confirmation.
To remove all the spam
comments, click on the Spam link at
the top of the page to display all the comments that have been marked as spam.
This link will be displayed along with a number in brackets which indicates how
many spam comments there are. To permanently remove all these comments, click
the Empty Spam button. You will not be prompted for confirmation.
You can also delete a single spam comment
permanently by clicking on the Delete Permanently link that appears when
hovering your cursor over each row. You will not be prompted for confirmation.
If you find there are
comments that have been marked as spam that shouldn’t be, click the checkboxes
next to them and select Not Spam from
the Bulk Actions drop down at the top
of the page. Click the Apply button
to confirm your choice.
Alternatively, click the Not Spam link that appears when hovering
your cursor over each row.