Christopher Finke
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You’re right; they used to go into spam, but it was changed to put them in Trash instead.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Regress from Akismet 4.0You could download and install the previous version from the bottom of https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/advanced/ if you ever need to.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Free AccountYes, if you have a personal site, you can use Akismet for free. Just go to https://akismet.com/plans/, choose the Basic plan, and slide the payment slider to zero.
I’m not aware of a way to remove the Spam folder entirely. The Comment Blacklist in the discussion options is the only thing I know of in core WordPress that will put something in spam. If it’s not that, the best way is still to disable your plugins one at a time until it stops happening; if you find out which plugin is causing it, let me know and I can dig into it.
Akismet doesn’t do much when a comment is approved from the Pending queue besides saving an entry in the comment history. Is your commentmeta table very very large?
About how many comments do you have to select at once for this problem to happen?
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Absolute junkIt looks like your support ticket is still open and active, so hopefully you’re able to find a solution there. If not, I can walk you through some debugging steps to find out exactly why Akismet says that your site can’t connect.
Are you approving comments from the Pending queue or from the Spam folder?
You’re right that nothing there looks problematic. Comment Notifier might be involved, but I only say that because it’s the only one that obviously has some connection to comments.
You may want to start disabling different plugins for a couple days each and see if the problem persists in order to narrow down the culprit.
Also, check whether there are any plugins listed in your “Must Use” section on the plugins page (/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=mustuse). Those are plugins that are added by an administrator and can’t be disabled (without permission).
I’m going to mark as resolved, since it’s definitely not Akismet-related, but I will continue to check on this thread if you find any more information.
@shalirey If you’re still running Akismet, you can contact us at support@akismet.com to work through the spam issue. Otherwise, you may want to look into the Comment Blacklist or some other solution like a captcha for your comment form.
The comment history may include some information; it’s at the bottom of the “Edit Comment” page.
If there’s nothing helpful there, can you post the full list of plugins you still have enabled?
Because the core Comment Blacklist description says this: “When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URL, email, or IP, it will be put in the trash”, we decided not to override it.
Are these comments matching an entry in your Comment Blacklist (/wp-admin/options-discussion.php)? Version 3.3.4 contained a fix that gives the Blacklist higher priority than the spam check, and if a comment matches the blacklist, it’s put in the Trash.
The Akismet plugin interface displays a bar graph. Does that tell me how much contact form spam has been rejected?
Yes, if you have comments turned off, this graph would reflect how many spam contact form submissions Akismet has blocked.
It says that the “Accuracy” is 100%. How was that calculated?
Accuracy is determined by how many missed spam you submit vs. how many comments (or contact form submissions) Akismet checked. Since Contact Form 7 doesn’t have a method for submitting a missed spam, accuracy will always show as 100%.
Does “strictness” only apply to comment spam?
Yes, since Contact Form 7 has not implemented any code to deal with the discard response.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Upgrade to 3.3.4This is an issue unrelated to Akismet itself. You’ll need to contact your Web host for help on resetting your file permissions so that the plugin can update.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Contact Form 7] No more Akismet?You won’t lose Akismet functionality. I’m on the Akismet team, and this was due to a recommendation I made in a different support ticket.
Previously, if a contact form was submitted by “Alex Smith” that said “Hello please visit my site.”, then CF7 would send these values to Akismet:
comment_author: “Alex Smith”
comment_content: “Alex Smith
Please visit my site.”You can see the author is included in both places. Now, CF7 will send this:
comment_author: “Alex Smith”
comment_content: “Please visit my site.”