Title: Manually Clear CommentMeta database?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Manually Clear CommentMeta database?

 *  [Michael Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/planetmike/)
 * (@planetmike)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-clear-commentmeta-database/)
 * While experimenting with the plugins on one of my sites (trying to see what I
   didn’t need to be running anymore), I disabled Akismet for a while. While it 
   was disabled I noticed that I had nearly 1,000 spam comments sitting in my Comments
   admin area. So I deleted the Spam. Unfortunately, it looks like Akismet can no
   longer clean up the commentmeta database, since the original spam messages are
   already gone. Is there a way for me to clean up the database manually?
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 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-clear-commentmeta-database/)
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