Mass delete pending subscriptions
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Hi,
I’ve somehow accrued 98 pending blog subscriptions – probably via some kind of spam bot – that I want to mass delete but I can’t find a button for it. Is there such a feature?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
For which site is this? I don’t see any followers on the site you indicated, http://firstcamethestars.wordpress.com/
At the moment there is no way to bulk delete followers, so the only way to get rid of them is to remove them from the People section of the My Sites dashboard.
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Hi Kokkieh,
It’s not followers, it’s “my” blog subscriptions.
Screenshot of what I mean:
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Thanks for clarifying.
I’m afraid there’s no way to bulk-delete these either, not even from our end. I also see about half of them are for subscriptions to comments on specific posts, not subscriptions to blogs themselves, and they’re scattered across two years which makes it unlikely that it’s the work of spam bots. If it were bots I’d expect to see a large number of subscriptions in a very short time, not spread out like this.
Could it be that you at some point commented on those sites and did not uncheck the box that says to automatically subscribe to comments on those sites?
Even if not, the only way to get rid of them is to delete them one by one in the subscription manager. You might also want to consider changing the email address you use for your WordPress.com account, just in case this is the work of some very patient spammers.
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Hi,
I receive these “thank you for your subscription” spam mails every once in a while. How it works I don’t know but what I do know is that I’ve never heard of Eurodad Travels and 187163 Free Porn Bot does not sound like a legitimate blog. :)
Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to go through them one by one.
Thanks all the same.
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In that case it’s probably someone who got hold of your email address and is adding it to random sites to annoy you or something. I’m afraid there’s no way to prevent this without preventing you from signing up to sites yourself either.
The only solution I can think of is to change your WordPress.com account email address, and then set up a filter in your current email account to automatically delete new emails like these that come in.
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