Christopher Finke
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Working not ProperlyHi Roshan,
While the submissions don’t look entirely relevant to your site, they don’t appear to have any actual spammy content. In order to teach Akismet that the content you’re seeing is spam, you’ll need to mark the submissions as spam, assuming you are using a contact form that supports that feature.
Chris
Can you post a screenshot of what you’re seeing? I just followed your steps, and this is what /wp-admin/ looks like to me on the first load for a brand-new WP install with Akismet activated:
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] set up account disabledCan you email us at support@akismet.com with the email address you’re trying to sign up with?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Receiving a Fatal Error After UpdateAt this point, I think you’ll need to contact your webhost. I’m not sure why a file that exists and is readable can’t be loaded by PHP.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Receiving a Fatal Error After UpdateDoes the file
/nas/content/live/kcitech/wp-content/plugins/akismet/class.akismet-widget.phpexist? If so, what are the permissions on it?Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Receiving a Fatal Error After UpdateDid you remove both
wp-content/plugins/akismet.old/andwp-content/plugins/akismet/? What’s the exact error you’re seeing?Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Receiving a Fatal Error After UpdateIf you used core’s standard update process, I would recommend opening a bug with them about why the
akismet.olddirectory is still around after update.Regardless, the actual cause of why this is happening is outside of Akismet itself. Removing and re-installing would still be the fastest way to fix this.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Receiving a Fatal Error After UpdateYou have a directory named
/nas/content/live/kcitech/wp-content/plugins/akismet.old/referencing the directory/nas/content/live/example/wp-content/plugins/akismet/. Those look like they’re for different sites; I’m not sure what your setup or upgrade process is, but the easiest way to fix this would be to remove Akismet and all Akismet directories from both sites and re-install it from the plugin directory.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] New user is createdAkismet does not filter out user signups, so the increase in “New user is created” notifications would be unrelated to Akismet.
Because of the changing nature of spam, sending old comments to Akismet will not always trigger the same learning that sending new comments does. Additionally, checking old comments does not benefit from the same real-time knowledge that checking new comments does, so the accuracy rate will be lower. Depending on the age of these comments, you may just have to clear them out manually or by searching for key phrases that they use and deleting them in batches.
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In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Contact FormIt would be up to the contact form developer to add support for Akismet, and I don’t see any indication that Unyson/Brizy has added Akismet integration.
Yes, Akismet should be compatible, since the REST API uses the standard WordPress comment functions, and Akismet hooks into the
wp_insert_commentaction.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Mailchimp Signup form and WoocommerceNo, it doesn’t sound like you need Akismet right now.
If you do ever add comment sections or a contact form, keep us in mind. 🙂
The popup you see from CNN.com in your example is just a screenshot, taken by the mShots service (https://github.com/Automattic/mShots). It is static, so there is no content from CNN.com actually being included in the page. If you check line 87 of
_inc/akismet.js, you can see the JavaScript that requests the screenshot and displays it in the page.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] “Silently Discard…” not workingThose are obvious spam and were correctly marked as such, so imagine how terrible and obvious the ones that were automatically discarded were. 🙂