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Delete All Pending Comments

by Gravuj Miklos Henrich · Security

Also makes 4 other plugins · 150+ installs across the portfolio →

Delete all pending comments from your database easily.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 63 average across 997 Security plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4970 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+63% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

52

now · peak 78

5230d downloads · Sep 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Delete All Pending C · #16261 you Delete Pending Comme · #2022 Anti-spam Reloaded · #5183 Batch Comment Spam D · #6880

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

520per 1k installs · Sep 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

13.6y ago

latest release · v1.0

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0 · 13.6y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,374 observations

100Installs · Sep 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
13.6y ago
Added
2013-01-22 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3
Tested up to
3.5.2
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. draaagaaan
    10.9y ago

    It still works perfectly. Nice work.

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  2. betholsoncreative
    11.3y ago

    I had 93 junk comments left over from old pages on an old template that I deleted. I’m not sure why the comments were left behind but since they weren’t attributed to an existing page I couldn’t select them to delete them but this plug in worked like a charm and took care of it for me! Thanks for saving me the headache and mess of trying to delete them all from directly inside my actual database.

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  3. Lehel Szilard Marosi
    12.6y ago

    Especially when you are flooded with unnecessary comments. Thanks for the effort

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  4. rokfrd
    12.9y ago

    This plugin is exactly what I needed. I had over 3,000 pending comments that were all spam and needed to be deleted. A major flaw of WordPress is that you can only delete 20 at a time. Sorry but I don’t know anyone who has that kind of time to waste. Within minutes I was able to install and active this plugin, go to the comments section, click pending comments and DELETE ALL – hallelujah!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2023-10-23 200+ → 100+ down

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