10 Best WP Comment Cleaner Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
WP Comment Cleaner has 20,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to WP Comment Cleaner
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Disable Comments & Delete All Comments
Closest match5.0 (41) 9,000+ active installsDisable comments globally on all posts or certain post types. Delete all comments at once, by post type or comment status. Manage links in comments.
Shares the delete comments, disable comments, remove comments tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated 17 days ago.
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Disable Comments – Remove Comments & Stop Spam [Multi-Site Support]
4.7 (280) 1 million+ active installsDisable comments site-wide or by post type, delete existing comments in bulk, and block comment spam via REST API and XML-RPC. Multisite ready.
Shares the delete comments, disable comments, remove comments tags on WordPress.org. About 50 times the installs, last updated 6 days ago.
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Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields
4.8 (418) 100,000+ active installsPods is a framework for creating, managing, and deploying customized content types and fields for any project.
About 5 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 7 days ago.
- 4
Newsletter
Paid version availableNewsletter – Send awesome emails from WordPress
4.6 (1,204) 200,000+ active installsAn email marketing tool for your blog: subscription forms to create your lists with unlimited subscribers and newsletters.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.7, last updated 19 days ago.
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Relevanssi – A Better Search
4.8 (405) 100,000+ active installsRelevanssi replaces the default search with a partial-match search that sorts results by relevance. It also indexes comments and shortcode content.
About 5 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 21 days ago.
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Admin Columns
Paid version available4.9 (1,651) 100,000+ active installsTake control of your WordPress admin list tables. Add, remove, and reorder columns for posts, users, media, and more - no coding needed.
About 5 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.7, last updated 6 days ago.
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Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
4.8 (3,211) 200,000+ active installsTop-rated antispam for contact forms, comments, WooCommerce, eCommerce, and login. No CAPTCHAs, no friction, just background anti spam protection.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 5 days ago.
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Ultimate Member
Paid version availableUltimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin
4.4 (1,445) 200,000+ active installsMembership & community plugin with user profiles, registration & login, member directories, content restriction, user roles and much more.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.4 against 4.7, last updated 14 days ago.
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4.8 (430) 200,000+ active installsCaptcha protection against spam comments & brute force login attacks using Google reCAPTCHA.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 22 days ago.
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4.7 (255) 200,000+ active installsAdd Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, WooCommerce, Contact Forms & more. The user-friendly, privacy-preserving reCAPTCHA alternative. 100% free!
About 10 times the installs, last updated July 27, 2026.
Switching from WP Comment Cleaner: common questions
What is the best alternative to WP Comment Cleaner?
Disable Comments & Delete All Comments is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 9,000+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which WP Comment Cleaner alternative has the most users?
Disable Comments, with 1 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which WP Comment Cleaner alternative is rated highest?
Admin Columns, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 1,651 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these WP Comment Cleaner alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with WP Comment Cleaner score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against WP Comment Cleaner on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Disable Comments & Delete All Comments is the closest match to WP Comment Cleaner by the data we track, and Disable Comments has the widest reach with 1 million+ active installs. CleanTalk shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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