Back from Summer Vacation? Need to mass delete WordPress comments? Look no furthur.

So, you just came back from summer vacation and now you have 10,000 comments spread across your blogs. What do you do? Instead of paginating through 20 at a time, and taking hours to delete your comments that you’re sure are not legit anyway, you can mass delete them from phpmyadmin or from the mysql command line instead. Just login to phpmyadmin, or select the database you want to use via the cli (use databasename;)...

August 27, 2009 · 1 min · 209 words · Matt G

Disable Auto Saving and Post Revisions with WordPress

Simply add this to your wp-config.php define('AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 600); define ('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 0); Done. No more database fat.

December 27, 2008 · 1 min · 16 words · Matt G