• I started using WordPress Forms on my site and found that Akismet automatically (and forcibly) is used on these if installed. You cannot disable this connection. After a month I realised that it had gathered dozens of form responses as spam, and not a single one was a true positive. The most it lets me do is mark them as “not spam”.

    I now have these many messages stuck in WordPress with no simple way to get them to where they should have gone (ie our mailbox). That’s dozens of customer emails I didn’t see. That’s money lost. If any spam does get sent from a Form then our own email servers will handle it. I don’t need Akismet sat in the middle stealing all the messages.

    As with so much Jetpack stuff over the last year or so, the more they’ve started to charge for things, the worse the products have become. I’ve uninstalled it and will find something else that I can actually trust and which is functional (or at least includes an option to exclude it from certain areas of WordPress).

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