Managing WordPress Comments

Your website visitors can always leave a comment on your posts but also the website owner has control over these comments. You can always edit, approve, disapprove or even delete some of these comments. This does not mean that you don’t care about your audience but its meant to create healthy boundaries as well as engaging in a social discussion that has limits but in an interesting way.

The best way to manage audience comments is by having a Spam filter in your email box that can snag most of the comments. Moreover, have a policy of moderation to ensure things stay civilized because comments are viewed by many other website visitors when they get published on your blog. The most common way used to manage comments is through the administration interface and through phpMyAdmin.

  Managing through administration interface

• Log in to WordPress as the administrator
• Click on comments under WordPress dashboard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here you can read the pending messages, approved, marked as Spam and also as a trash. On the comment area there are options for quick edit,reply, approving, unapprove,mark as Spam and also delete by marking it as trash.

Delete using PhpMyAdmin

• Log in to Cpanel
• Navigate to databases- and click on phpMyAdmin. Look for a database that has wp-username -3 digits
• Click on comments table with wp- and on the username ID click on delete. In a case of multiple comments select multiple comments then click delete
• To confirm deletion click yes.

For further management,

• Click on settings in the WordPress dashboard. Go to discussion and a list of how you can manage comments appears as shown below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This gives you more control..