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Remove All Comments

by php-developer · Security

Also makes 1 other plugin · 210+ installs across the portfolio →

This plug-in will removed/Delete all comments from posts and pages.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
40 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 62/100
Support 70/100

40 health vs 64 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.30, 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.

39 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 9/100
Rating quality 57/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3305 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+27% vs prior 30d
5Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

160

now · peak 257

16030d downloads · Aug 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

Remove All Comments · #11258 you CRUDLab Disable Comm · #7927 Bulk Comments Manage · #8187 Akismet Anti-spam: S · #8

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.

800per 1k installs · Aug 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

9.1y ago

latest release · v3.1

4

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.1 · 9.1y ago2.0 · 9.5y ago3.0 · 9.5y ago1.0 · 10.4y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 87% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.1 87%
v2.0 8.1%
v1.0 5.1%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈250

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

Install history · since 2019-07-22 · 1,385 observations

200Installs · Aug 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
3.1.1
Last updated
9.1y ago
Added
2014-12-30 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
4.8.30
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. rishigangoly
    9.0y ago

    It says I have to upgrade to their pro version because I have too many comments

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  2. Thomas Rendleman
    9.4y ago

    Too bad. I really would have liked this one. 🙁

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  3. Joe Bloggs
    9.4y ago

    My site has 177 comments I wanted to get rid of. Straight after the installation of this plugin, I get the following message: “Its looks there are many comments in your website.This plugin will not work with your website. You can get full version from here (link to the paid version).” Dude, If you want to release a free version of the plugin and submit it to the WordPress plugin inventory, at least make it do something useful! This is a waste of time. This topic was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by Joe Bloggs.

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  4. Naanad
    9.8y ago

    The website said it might not be compatible, the website warned me this might not be what I wanted. Oh it was EXACTLY what I wanted and needed. The “auto” approval of the comments on photos was something I had initially tried to turn off using the steps a when I setup the site, but at first it only worked on posts. Once I found the option to address the individual photos, it had already collected 260000+ comments in less than a few weeks. The client wanted NO comments at all. After all this time, I found this application, and they are GONE. Thank you!

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  5. scotttraveler
    10.6y ago

    Crashed my site – gave me fatal errors. Oh, and it didn’t remove the comments, only crashed once a comment was added.

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  6. lancerkind
    10.6y ago

    Update.php had a warning but otherwise the plug in worked wonderfully. I’m not clear what the author suggest be done after such an operation. I just wanted to remove the two thousand “ping-back” crap comments that infected my site, then return to normal operations for a media campaign. So after the Purge, I went back to “remove comments” on my dash and debated about whether it was necessary to change the settings to “no.” I wondered if leaving them at “yes” meant that it would continuously purge new comments. Then I decided why have this plugin active at all, so I deactivated it. I’m glad to keep the plugin installed for next time things get out of control.

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  7. aatayyab
    11.2y ago

    EASY AND STRAIGHTFORWARD REMOVAL OF COMMENTS.

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  8. php-developer
    11.6y ago

    100 % Comments Free Website. This topic was modified 9 years ago by php-developer.

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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. 2026-07-11 300+ → 200+ down after 402 days in tier
  2. 2025-06-04 400+ → 300+ down after 412 days in tier
  3. 2024-04-18 500+ → 400+ down after 248 days in tier
  4. 2023-08-14 600+ → 500+ down after 2 days in tier
  5. 2023-08-12 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2023-08-11 600+ → 500+ down after 6 days in tier
  7. 2023-08-05 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2023-08-04 600+ → 500+ down after 213 days in tier

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