Title: edit-comments.php gives 404 Error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# edit-comments.php gives 404 Error

 *  Resolved [joemerchant2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joemerchant2/)
 * (@joemerchant2)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-commentsphp-gives-404-error/)
 * This morning, I was on my main admin screen edit-comments.php to approve a few
   comments. I click “Approve” on one and it worked. I clicked “Approve” on another
   and the whole comment box turned red and stayed red. I thought that odd. Then,
   I clicked the Comments link in the admin left toolbar to reload my comments admin
   page. That’s when I got the 404 error.
 * I searched around and the best I could find was people suggesting a string of
   characters in the comment set off the problem, or that it was a permalinks issue.
   I re-selected my permalinks with no change. Then I started looking at the latest
   comments.
 * I added the comment-status parameter to the edit-comments.php page and I looked
   at trash, spam, approved, pending, and all. Doing so, I deleted all of my spam
   comments and trash comments. This left it to about 2 or 3 recent comments.
 * When I used the comment-status parameter “all,” I was surprised to see all of
   the comments. However, if I leave off that parm, like i’m using the WP admin 
   link, I still get the 404 error. And yes, I did clear my cache.
 * I’m stumped.
 * P.S. I have not updated any plug-ins recently.

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 *  Thread Starter [joemerchant2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joemerchant2/)
 * (@joemerchant2)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-commentsphp-gives-404-error/#post-4230117)
 * two things:
    1. Clearing out the spam seemed to do the trick. 2. The persisting“
   not found” issue after the spam deletion is due to a browser caching issue.

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