Is there a way to delete pending comments from cpanel (directly from the files)? I have a couple of thousand and the page hangs everytime I try and load them. thanks
You can try deleting them directly from the database via something like phpmyadmin - usually available from your webhost's control panel. Also, I'm suspecting that the reason you have so many comments is that a majority of them are spam. Have you installed any of the following plugins to help combat spam? Akistmet Spam-Karma 2 Bad Behaviour 2
If you've got access to phpmyadmin run the following SQL statement on your Wordpress database. DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = '0'
I am not really sure, I thought I had it but can't find it. Would it be on the home page of cpanel or somewhere inside? Anyways I found a work-around that works!! I went into manage --> comments and clicked bulk then I used the search feature. I started with some of the most popular ip number pairs 71, 72 etc... It brought up 200-600 at a time and you can check them all then delete. Then I did seperate numbers and I was able to work through 5,600 comments in about 5 minutes that way. Hope this helps someone else that had the same problem.
Dam, I knew it was in there somewhere....I am glad I finally figured out 'my way', it worked pretty good.