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Comment Cleaner — Bulk Delete & Disable Comments
Great for small spam piles until the 500 comment limit hits.
DecliningReview burst
48/100
The plugin cleans small comment sets well but the tiny free limit causes frustration.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.7★
58 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-55%
Declining fast
159 → 71 installs/day
Warnings
- Reviews concentrated in a single month — usually a marketing push or paid wave.
What to watch out for
- MAJOR42% of reviews in one month (2025-08-08)
- MINORdownloads down 55% vs a year ago
- MINORreview volume down 67% vs prior 6mo
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -55% in the last year
159/day a year ago→71/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayComment Cleaner is a mixed-reputation plugin that works well for users with modest comment volumes, but draws significant criticism for its activation friction, Freemius data-sharing requirement, and a 500-comment hard limit on the free tier.
What people like
- +Effectively cleans large volumes of spam comments and speeds up the dashboard×2
- +Includes a global comment disable feature
Common complaints
- −Free version is capped at 500 comments — users report being unable to delete even that many×2
- −Requires activation steps including a license key prompt and a mandatory Freemius account connection before use×2
- −Nags users with a 'explain why you're leaving' prompt on deactivation, perceived as adware-like behavior
- −Performance slows noticeably when processing very large comment sets (millions)
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.81★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 26%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 42% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 58 total
Latest reviews · 58 analyzed
- 2026-02-27★★★★★Easy Bulk Comment Cleanupdeepesh12341-shot
- 2026-02-27★★★★★Nice plugin for bulk deleterakeshsaini12341-shot
- 2026-02-27★★★★★love thislokesh2002
- 2026-02-08★★★★★Requires a licenseevrimicoz
- 2025-11-19★★★★★Adwarehimselfv1-shot
- 2025-09-17★★★★★Bad epxLe Duy Quang
- 2025-09-07★★★★★It's life changing plugin deleted all commentsvimlaemitra
- 2025-07-25★★★★★Nice plugin to remove comment. Very helpful.kastayush1-shot
- 2025-07-22★★★★★Nice plugin for bulk deletesoniarchana1-shot
- 2025-07-22★★★★★I have no word for this plugin.For disable commentsonusaini8107541-shot
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Comment Cleaner
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
67
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
73
Prior 7-day baseline
58
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
268
Mean release-day peak (30d)
73
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-8.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
42%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.77
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
90%
5★ share in analyzed sample
26%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-67%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.66 → 4.81★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered