Deleting comments on your dashboard after appoved

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  sweetdaysundertheoaks · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 2:31 pm

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  I would like to delete all the comments that have accumulated on my dashboard that I have already approved and are on my blog in comments. Can these be deleted or sent to trash from the dashboard so as not to clog things up with all the comments WITHOUT the comments vanishing from my blog posts?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  justjennifer · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 2:56 pm

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  No, the act of deleting them removes them from your blog posts.

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  sweetdaysundertheoaks · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 3:15 pm

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  Thank you for your quick reply jennifer! One more question? Aren’t all those comments going to clog up the works behind the scenes and take up valuable space. I want them out of there since they are already on my blog and I can, everybody can read them there.

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  justjennifer · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 3:31 pm

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  Again, no. Approved comments may take up space, but it doesn’t count against you and they don’t clog up the works. It’s really not a concern.

  Spam comments are automatically deleted after 2 weeks, however, you have the choice of reviewing them and deleting them sooner if you wish.

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  sweetdaysundertheoaks · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 4:04 pm

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  Ok! Thank you so much. Clogging up the works and slowing down things was the issue for me. I did not know about spam comments so that is something learned today too. Thank you again for the help and the quick response. WordPress is new to me and I am just trying to figure it out. It is also a wonderful place to blog!

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  timethief · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 4:52 pm

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  @sweetdaysundertheoaks
  As you are new to WordPress.com I can recommend a comprehensive tutorial. The Learn WordPress.com tutorial is divided into progressive levels and presented as a series: http://learn.wordpress.com/ This is the link to all support documentation http://en.support.wordpress.com. There you will find a searchbox that provides results form the documentation and from forum threads. if you cannot locate answers to your questions by searching then you can post to this support forum for help.

  This is the link to the blog promotion forum > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/showcase and this will help you learn hoe to promote your blog withing the WordPress.com community > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/07/13/wordpress-com-in-house-blog-promotion/
  This is the link to the Off-Topic forum where you can discuss anything under the sun with other members > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/off-topic

  Best wishes with your blog. :)

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  sweetdaysundertheoaks · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 5:39 pm

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  timethief, thank you so much! I will be clicking on the links you provided and saving them to favorites and utilizing them. Thank you also for the good wishes with my blog. I am incredibly happy with WordPress. It has jumpstarted my desire to take pictures again. Great place for picture takers :) A very nice community here.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 5:40 pm

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  I’m glad to here you are happy here. I am too. :)

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  justjennifer · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 7:28 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes from me as well.

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  sweetdaysundertheoaks · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 11:44 pm

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  Thank you justjennifer!