Christopher Finke

@shazibsohail,

That sounds like a file permissions error. Your web host will be able to help you fix that.

To reduce the time to 5 days, you’d have to write a small plugin to add this filter:

function reduce_akismet_auto_delete_time( $days ) {
    return 5;
}

add_filter( 'akismet_delete_comment_interval', 'reduce_akismet_auto_delete_time' );

There’s not a way to instantly delete comments marked as spam, but you could modify the function above to return 0 instead of 5 to have comments deleted every day from spam.

I don’t know. Which files do you not have permission to change, and what are their permissions?

It sounds like a file permissions issue with the folder; you may have “read” permissions but not “write” (which you’d need in order to update it). Your webhost should be able to help you fix this.

The German translation has been updated, so this issue should be fixed soon.

Do you mean that you checked the box labeled “Silently discard the worst and most pervasive spam so I never see it.”? That is only referring to a certain type of spam that is so obviously spam, there’s no point in reviewing it.

If you want spam to be deleted sooner than 15 days, you would need to add a plugin that sets the akismet_delete_comment_interval filter to zero, like in this example: https://www.engagewp.com/empty-akismet-spam-queue-daily/

Looking at your missed spam reports, it appears that these would all be caught if the spammers tried posting them again, so Akismet has started adjusting to them. Please do continue marking any that get through as spam.

Thanks for the heads up; we’ll update the plugin to only use that function if wp_check_comment_disallowed_list is not available.