I have 3400 spam topics I need to delete because they’re overloading the server. I can only delete 20 at a time via the Dashboard.

1. If I have 3400 spam topics showing up in bbpress > Topics, why are there only 9 Topics showing up in the database [databasename]_bb_topics? How can I delete them in the database if they don’t show up there?
2. If I delete the forum that the spam topics are in, does that automatically delete all the spam topics?

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 10 months ago]

dashbaoard>topics>all topics

top right of screen click ‘screen options’

change ‘number of items per page’ to 999 and you can delete 999 at a time, it will take while to refresh but only 4 times needed to get rid of 3400

[@evado Participant 6 years, 10 months ago]

Better check for some antispam plugins, captcha etc., otherwise you’re gonna spend whola lotta time deleting the spam manually 😉