Questions tagged [akismet]
Anti-spam plugin from Automattic.
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How to change Akismet commenter privacy notice?
I read the supposed explanation posted on their blog, and came away unenlightened.
The following site-specific plugin does nothing (I have enabled it):
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Akismet Better Privacy ...
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Can the Akismet API key be pulled from the plugin?
I've looked for a way to pull my site's Akismet's API key but I'm not seeing a solution when I search through the tag akismet. When I research the documentation on Key verification I add the function ...
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Comment moderation
I am using a plugin (dwqa) that overrides wordpress' Settings->Discussion options (eg: I select "Comment author must have a previously approved comment" but comments are approved regardless).
If I ...
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Can I reuse the Akismet API key used on old version of my website? [closed]
I have a site with old version of Akismet plugin. I'm doing a major update/reinstall and I need Akismet API key to reactivate the Akismet plugin. I didn't find the key neither hardcoded anywhere in ...
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Contact form won't submit
I posted this on the Stackoverflow site and haven't received much assistance with the issue. I hope that, by reposting it on here, someone could please offer me any assistance.
I am creating a theme ...
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Batch approve comments
Akismet went crazy and sent several hundred comments to spam. Right now, I have to manually mark each comment as "Not Spam" and then manually move all of them from Pending to Approved. Any way to do ...
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selectively disable akismet
I need to disable Akismet for comments written by one of my registered users, since there is a problem that when such plugin is enabled they do not appear. I have some familiarity with php but I am ...
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How to spam-filter a custom content type with the Akismet plugin?
I have several inputboxes and no textareas in my custom content type. Can I use Akismet that comes with WP for that? If I can, how to do that?
E.g. If I have 5 inputboxes like: name, address, city, ...
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Does Akismet plugin expose any hooks, functions, class that can work with custom code?
I have custom code that handles comment insertions using wp_insert_comment. Does Akismet plugin expose any hooks, functions, class that can work with the same and possibly elsewhere where custom forms ...
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Check spam in custom form - akismet
I have a plugin that has input form, I have decided to check submitted data with akismet. I do have API key, WP comments are filtered correctly...
here is, what I found: http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/...
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Why do I get email notifications about comments that Wordpress has already determined are spam?
I have a wordpress.org blog that I host on my own site. I have the Akismet plugin installed, and in general I keep both up-to-date (e.g. at the moment, Akismet is at version 2.5.7, and Wordpress at 3....
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Auto-deleting comments that trigger the blacklist
By default, the WP 'blacklist' feature finds comments containing the blacklisted string and moves them to the spam folder. What I am trying to do is change it so that instead of going to spam, the ...
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Why does akismet prevent jetpack comments from appearing in my moderation queue? [closed]
On the blog I run, when I have Akismet activated, it somehow prevents comments posted via Jetpack from appearing in the moderation queue. I know it's Akismet because I have disabled every plugin but ...
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How to deal with small scale comment spam on small commercial sites? [closed]
When I've built a few sites for small businesses in the past, I've historically been able to do without anti-spam measures. I now have several sites which get maybe between 5 and 20 spam comments a ...
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Activate Akismet on installation with akismet key
I want Akismet to be activated by default on installation with my Akismet API key. I am making my own distribution that I will use on my own sites and I want the plugin and key to already be activated ...
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Akismet plugin is deleting spam despite preferences
Curiously, Akismet is deleting old spam comments after a period of time (I'm guessing within a week).
This box is NOT checked:
Auto-delete spam submitted on posts more than a month old.
I've sent ...
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What do comments with [...] mean?
I get a bunch of comments that simply repeat the title with '[...]'.
ie:
[...] Some cool post title [...]
Is this spam or is wordpress doing something wrong? I have the akismet plugin enabled.
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A spam bot loves me, what can I do?
I'm receiving many many spam comments using the same username and I guess it is a bot that keeps on submitting comments. In one week I get around 100 such comments (which is quite a lot for my small ...
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Auto block ALL IP's indicated by Akismet?
I'm thinking of blocking all IP adresses indicated by Akismet as containing spam. Something like cronning
select distinct wp_comments.comment_author_IP
FROM `wp_commentmeta` JOIN `wp_comments`
WHERE ...
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