I spent tonight working on a patch for wordpress 1.2.2 to add a more powerful delete function to comments. You can search on simple criteria (Name contains a or b or c but not d or e or f, and post contains g or h or i but not j or k or l)

It’s not very thoroughly tested, having existed for about 2 hours, but I have it installed and it’s been working a treat so far.

To use, go to

http://www.sweavo.34sp.com/downloads/

grab the despam… .zip or .tgz, and unzip it somewhere. The wp-admin directory contains some replacement and one additional file for your wp-admin directory. Once the files are present on the server, you’ll hae a new option under the Edit menu called de-spam. Enter your criteria and hit Preview, then when you’re happy that only the posts you want to get rid of are red, hit Delete These Posts.

O, and either (a) have taken a backup of your comments table or (b) don’t come crying to me!

Let me know if you use it and it’s rubbish in any way. Apart from the fact it looks ropey. I wasn’t going flat out for looks.