Title: Plugin stops working sometimes?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin stops working sometimes?

 *  Resolved [Steven Jay Cohen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenjaycohen/)
 * (@stevenjaycohen)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-working-sometimes/)
 * I can’t come up with another explanation. Here’s what happens:
 * Usually, Akismet marks something as spam, the plugin checks it and trashes it(
   I have the settings marked to do that).
 * Occasionally, Akismet marks something as spam, but the plugin just leaves it 
   in the spam queue.
 * Since the plugin is set to either trash a comment or marks it as not spam (back
   into moderation), nothing should be in my spam queue.
 * What’s going on?
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-conditional-captcha/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-conditional-captcha/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Samir Shah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solarissmoke/)
 * (@solarissmoke)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-working-sometimes/#post-4519348)
 * This can happen for two reasons:
 * 1. You have entered some blacklist keywords in `Settings -> Discussion`. When
   a comment matches any of those keywords, WordPress puts the comment in spam and
   bypasses Akismet.
 * 2. If Akismet tries to check a comment but it fails (e.g., because the Akismet
   server takes too long to respond, or your API key fails to validate, or there
   is a connection failure), then it puts the comment in the moderation queue, and
   tries to check it again later (6 hours later, to be precise). If, later, the 
   server reports that the comment is spam, then it moves the comment to spam. Obviously
   at this stage it is too late to show the commenter a captcha… so it stays in 
   spam.
 * (2) above happens quite frequently – I have no idea why.
 *  Thread Starter [Steven Jay Cohen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenjaycohen/)
 * (@stevenjaycohen)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-working-sometimes/#post-4519352)
 * It looks like #2 could be the problem for me.

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 * Last reply from: [Steven Jay Cohen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenjaycohen/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-working-sometimes/#post-4519352)
 * Status: resolved