Remove post_status Spam Posts from WordPress

One of our clients with an outdated WordPress website was notified by Google that their website may have been hacked. There were some pages that Google was reporting that could be spam. Looking in the backend of WordPress, we did not find any spam posts. However, one thing stuck out to me as odd. When viewing all posts in the WordPress backend, it said there were 168,030 posts but only 13 of them were published. It also only displayed 13 … Continue reading Remove post_status Spam Posts from WordPress