Delete Recent Comments
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How to delete ‘recent comments’
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Hi –
Here is some information on managing comments. Can you send a link to where you are seeing the ones that you wish to delete? Are they on your site or another one? Thanks.
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Thank you, Liz.
The link is the home page of my site: brightfuturesmag.wordpress.com, on the left side of the page.
It says “Recent Comments” and refers to an earlier comment I stuck to my own blog page when the title of the site was “Solarpunks”. Now the blog page is also gone as I deleted it when I put the stories on a “Short Stories” site page. If you click the icon, it is empty, so it is just garbage and I am trying to clean up the site as we move beyond construction phase.
But in all the comments pages and documentation I see no Trash button for Recent Comments.
Dr Jack
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Wow! It disappeared by itself! Thank you, Liz, for whatever magic . . .
Yet I would like to know how to handle this in future, and not rely on magic, so any information you can give will be most appreciated.
Dr Jack
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You’re referring to the Recent Comments widget:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/recent-comments-widget/
It’s not possible to add or remove comments to that widget directly – it automatically pulls in comments as they are left on your site, and according to the criteria you specify in the widget settings.
The only way to remove a comment from the widget, is if a newer comment pushes it down, or if you delete the comment from My Site ->Comments. Also note that if you delete the comment it won’t disappear from the widget immediately – widget content gets cached on your site, so the widget will only updates when your site’s cache refreshes. That should happen every hour.
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