Delete All Pingback and Trackback Comments from WordPress Posts

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A quick bit of code to delete all trackback or pingback comments from every post on a WordPress site. All other comments on posts remains intact.

DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE wp_comments.comment_type = 'pingback';
DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE wp_comments.comment_type = 'trackback';

Access database via phpMyAdmin and run this SQL query.