Christopher Finke

I’m curious — if you add a Login link somewhere in the page so that it’s not hidden behind a hamburger menu, does that work? Some of what I’m seeing suggests that dropdown menu code in the Listable theme is interfering.

I’m still looking into it, but signs are pointing towards it being primarily due to another plugin’s code, as the offending code in Akismet can be reduced to this, which follows best practices for executing code 250ms after the mouse stops moving:

var myTimer = null;

document.addEventListener( 'mousemove', function () {
        if ( myTimer ) {
                clearTimeout( myTimer );
                myTimer = null;
        }

        myTimer = setTimeout( function () {
                // Do some things here.

                clearTimeout( myTimer );
                myTimer = null;
        }, 250 );
} );

If you replace akismet-frontend.js with a file that only contains this, it still breaks the login modal popup. In fact, even just this code, which does essentially nothing, will break it:

document.addEventListener( 'mousemove', function () {
        setTimeout( function () { }, 250 );
} );

I’m continuing to investigate.

I wasn’t able to reproduce this on a test site. If you’re ok with temporarily re-upgrading to 5.0 so I can test it on your site (maybe after the weekend is over), that would be helpful. Let me know.

Great, I’m glad I was able to help.

Thanks for confirming; I’ll direct anyone else with this issue to try that as well.

Hi Laurence,

Try adding this in mu-plugins; it worked on my site. It should remove both the new JavaScript file and the inline JavaScript, but the usual caveat applies that it may negatively affect spam-catching accuracy on your site.

<?php

add_action( 'init', 'remove_akismet_frontend_js', 99 );

function remove_akismet_frontend_js() {
	remove_action( 'comment_form', array( 'Akismet', 'load_form_js' ) );
	remove_action( 'do_shortcode_tag', array( 'Akismet', 'load_form_js_via_filter' ) );
	remove_action( 'comment_form', array( 'Akismet', 'output_custom_form_fields' ) );
}

If you want to guarantee a true response, send akismet-guaranteed-spam as the content or akismet-guaranteed-spam@example.com as the email.

In your WordPress dashboard, click on “Comments” and then the “Spam” link at the top of the page. The URL will end with /wp-admin/edit-comments.php?comment_status=spam