A Spam Score Column in Your WordPress Comments Screen
Piotr GOMAX ULTIMATE 5.76.0 adds a colour-coded spam-score column to the standard WordPress Comments screen...
GOMAX ULTIMATE 5.76.0 adds a colour-coded spam-score column to the standard WordPress Comments screen — every comment is rated 0 to 100 with a plain verdict, and a hover shows exactly why — plus a one-click bulk action that moves every selected comment scoring 60 or above straight to spam. The local spam scoring that was only available through the API now lives where you already moderate comments.
You don't have to open a separate tool or run a scan. Open Comments, glance at the scores, and clean up the junk.
Key takeaways
Score column in the Comments screen. Every comment shows a 0–100 spam score, colour-coded green, amber or red.
See why it was flagged. Hover the score to read the reasons — links, spam phrases, all-caps and so on.
One-click bulk cleanup. The "GOMAX: spam the likely-spam" bulk action spams everything selected that scores 60 or above.
Local and fast. The same rule-based heuristic runs on your server — no Akismet subscription and nothing sent to a third party.
No new screen to learn. It's built into the WordPress Comments page you already use.
Spot spam at a glance
Moderating comments usually means reading each one to decide if it's junk. The score column turns that into a glance: a red number is almost certainly spam, amber is worth a look, green is fine. Because the score is explained on hover, you're never guessing why something was flagged — you can trust it or overrule it. It's the difference between skimming a colour and reading every comment.
Clean the queue in one click
When you've got a page full of obvious spam, select them and choose "GOMAX: spam the likely-spam". Every selected comment scoring 60 or above is moved to spam at once, and you get a confirmation of how many were handled. You stay in control — only the comments you selected are considered, and you can always review the spam folder.
Local by design
This uses the same first-party spam heuristic as the rest of GOMAX: it looks at links, known spam phrases, shouting capitals, author URLs paired with links and short link-only comments, all computed on your own server. There's no external spam service, no subscription and no comment data leaving your site — it just makes the scoring visible in the place it's most useful.
Frequently asked questions
Where does the score appear? As a new column in the standard WordPress Comments screen, next to each comment, so you see it while moderating as usual.
What does the number mean? It's a 0–100 spam likelihood from the local heuristic. Higher is spammier; hovering shows the specific signals that raised it.
What does the bulk action do? "GOMAX: spam the likely-spam" takes the comments you've selected and moves the ones scoring 60 or above to spam, then tells you how many it handled.
Do I need Akismet or a subscription? No. The scoring is a local, rule-based engine on your own server. You can use it instead of, or alongside, other tools.
Is any comment data sent anywhere? No. Scoring and the bulk action run entirely on your site. Nothing is sent to GOMAX or any third party.