WordPress Comment Spam delete in entirety

Published by Fudgy McFarlen on

Lately I have not been able to delete all comment spam from my WordPress control panel.  This may be due to a recent update of WP.  The work around is as follows from phpAdmin

DELETE from wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = 'spam'

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