A comment broke my blog.

4 10 2009

Ok, any help anyone can give me would be great!

I moderate all my comments, but unfortunately I haven’t installed akismet yet, since there was a problem when I tried to install it (and I figured I could just go ahead and not approve spam in the beginning). The last days I had noticed that the number of spam comments I had to delete was growing fast (like, 30 per day or something).

And now when I try to go to the edit/delete comments or spam page I come to a blank page, only with the number “35″ on it. How weird is that?

So, I try to delete spamcomment by spamcomment through “recent comments” on the dashboard. When I come down to around 10 pending messages, and reload to get the last batch, I no longer can log in to the dashboard! Instead I come to the blank page with “35″.

The only way for me to be able to log in to the dashboard again is to log out and make nonsense comments enough to fill the “recent comments” field. Then I can log in again.

This tells me there is a comment which is f***ing up my blog. I can’t delete it by normal means, which means I need to get to it some other way. Suggestions?

UPDATE: Using the plugin “Spam Karma 2″ I managed to delete all cued spam comments, which also took care of the problem. So the blog is happy again and I now have a good spam-stopping plugin! I’m still very curious of what exactly caused the problem though, can’t find any info about it around the web.








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