By freelylw on

I got thousands spam topic in my forum, I don't need this forum anymore, How can I del all of them together? I try to dele them from Administer/Content management/content, but it takes toooo long, coz there are too many of them, Who can tell me how to do this quickly???

Thank you

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sevanden’s picture

sevanden commented

First off all you should make sure there are no new SPAM topics being added while you try to clean up.
I use 2 modules to protect my website from this:

  • Bad behavior
  • Mollom

With those 2 modules in place you should be able to do a clean-up through Administer/Content management/content. Set your content filter so only forum topics are visible and use the top checkbox to select everything on the page, should be faster to delete those topics.

You could also disable and uninstall the forum module, should do the trick also i think

dnewkerk’s picture

dnewkerk commented

If disabling and uninstalling forum module doesn't do the trick (I've never tried this), and you're planning to completely delete the forum (and all content in it) then try out this tool to help you to more quickly delete all of the "forum" nodes in the system: http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations

This adds a more flexible version of the core admin/content screen. What you can do is edit the view a little to make it display 100 (for instance, or more) nodes per page rather than just 10. Save the View and then use it the same way as you would the core admin/content screen, filtering to Forum nodes, and using the check all box and pressing delete. This should help you go through them all much more quickly.

maguffinator’s picture

maguffinator commented

I have the same problem, but using have drupal 6.4
Thanks!