AOS Comment Spam Cleanup for WordPress

AOS Comment Spam Cleanup helps you remove comment spam in bulk using URL pattern matching, and prevents future bot submissions with a honeypot and quality scoring. Whether you have hundreds of shortlink spam comments or want ongoing protection, this plugin has you covered.

It works alongside Akismet and other spam filters, not instead of them.

✨ What you can do 🔍 Pattern Scanner

Type a URL fragment (e.g. shorturl.fm) into the scanner, click Check Count to see exactly how many comments match, then choose your action: mark as spam, move to trash, or delete permanently.

👀 See the matches before you act

A count tells you how many, not which ones. Show matches lists the matching comments — author, comment excerpt, the post it sits on, the date and the current status — so you can spot a pattern that also catches real comments before you run an action that cannot be undone. The list is read-only and closes itself whenever the pattern changes, so it can never describe a different search than the one in the field.

⏱ Scheduled Auto-Cleanup

Set a WP-Cron job to run hourly, twice daily, daily, or weekly. Configure your patterns and action once — the plugin keeps your comment section clean automatically.

🤖 Honeypot Bot Protection

An invisible form field is added to your comment form. Real visitors never see or fill it. Bots that automatically fill every form field get rejected with a 403 error — silently, without affecting real users who never see or fill the field.

📊 Comment Quality Scoring

Every new comment is automatically scored based on: