Spam is evil. I install this new theme. I get it to a workable point (for now) and I realize that the comment pages have the comment ID numbers on them. I like this.
Of course, I notice the ID to one of the most recent posts is 8237. Now, according to my dashboard, I have all of 397 comments on there, and I do realize that I have in fact cleaned a heck of a lot of spam off my blog over time.
I export my comments portion of the db, and lo-and-behold, there is only 397 lines (spam-nuker++). I notice that the numbers go up sharply at the end, so I manaually edit them, drop the table, and import this new code.
Viola, latest post is ~422, which makes a hell of a lot more sense than 8237.
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