Stephane Daury (stephdau)
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Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Why is this installed with WordPress?For the record, Disqus, which you use as the commenting system on your site, actually uses Akismet to filter spam, so yes, you do “use it”. 🙂
- This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Why is this installed with WordPress?It’s installed with WordPress because, realistically, most sites out there actually do need it, and because spam-infested sites are a scourge to the web in general, proliferating spam and scam links, and so on.
Historically, it’s also because both WordPress and Akismet were created by the same developer, https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt
As @josk79 mentioned, the fact that it comes back at every upgrade on your install is not standard WP behaviour, nor is it Akismet’s doing.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Gutenberg UpdateHi Doug,
The Akismet plugin does not act on posts, just on comments, so Gutenberg has no effect on things. 🙂
If it’s a custom implementation with post data, then it’s up to whoever wrote that custom implementation, but the editor should not have much of an effect on things in that case either.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Akismet Privacy NoticeNo replies, assuming it is and marking as resolved. 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Lots of spam for 2 weeksPerfect. It’ll get sorted out soon.
Cheers. 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Lots of spam for 2 weeksHi Alex,
Sorry about that, you might be the victim of a particularly vicious spam bot attack.
Are you reporting the missed spam to Akismet by marking them as spam?
Feel free to send us a message via https://akismet.com/contact/ if it keeps going, and we can look into the details fo the attack for your specific site. Search for something like “spam attack” to get some tips, and the contact form.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Akismet Privacy NoticeHi there,
Sounds like your theme does not implement the
comment_form_afteraction (ref), which is highly unusual (and not great form on the developer’s part).Implementing that will fix your issue.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Safely deleting wp_postmeta contentAwesome. Glad this got sorted out, and thanks for the info.
Cheers! 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Safely deleting wp_postmeta contentHi again,
I’m waiting for some answers from a friend as to what could be the source of those.
As I said, those are not from the Akismet plugin, but they could have been from another plugin that interacted with the Akismet API, and managed their own meta keys. They don’t look like the old bbPress meta keys we’d expect to see, so it would likely have been something else.
As far as we’re concerned, those keys don’t look like anything valuable (truncated key name, NULL value, etc), and if it were me, I’d simply go ahead and delete them. It would be interesting to see if once deleted, more are being created, implying whatever plugin creates them is still active on your site.
I’ll get back to you once my friend has replied.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
- This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Safely deleting wp_postmeta contentHey Daniel.
This is puzzling indeed, and it’s not from us. Let me look a few things up and get back to you shortly. 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Safely deleting wp_postmeta contentHi Daniel.
Akismet does not store any data in WordPress’
wp_postmetatable, only thewp_commentmetatable. Could you post an example record of Akismet-related data in yourwp_postmetatable? The only context in which I know there could have been any is with a very old and very obsolete version of the bbbPress forum software, not WordPress.The methods in the plugin are there to run regularly scheduled cleanup jobs, not to delete all of the Akismet related data itself. They only delete data that the plugin considers obsolete.
Be extremely careful with the delete command, should you choose to use it. For example, it’s
akismet_%, not_akismet. Our meta keys start with the stringakismet_.Here is an article (not by us) that might help you with cleaning up up more than just the Akismet data: https://www.smarthomebeginner.com/clean-wp-commentmeta-wp-postmeta/
But once again, be very careful with any delete queries. My advice is to start with a
SELECTquery, look at the data, then use a (or series of)DELETEquery/ies to only delete what you are sure is okay to get rid of.- This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Safely deleting wp_postmeta contentHi David,
I’ll reply here, in case it becomes useful to others.
Once deleted, the plugin itself can’t really help.This said, all Akismet meta keys stored in the DB start with
akismet_, such asakismet_as_submitted. You could delete them with an SQL command usingWHERE meta_key LIKE 'akismet_%'. But note that you might want to limit that command to a few hundred keys at a time, if you have a very large table, or a slower server.The plugin has its own cleanup methods, if you’d like more inspiration: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/akismet/trunk/class.akismet.php?rev=1893537#L30
delete_old_comments_meta()delete_orphaned_commentmeta()
Hope this helps.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
- This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Not Responsive on my siteAssuming this is either resolved or abandoned. Re-open if needed.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Installing Askimet as new plugin@margmacd: Glad it’s already there for you, solving your main issue, but it should still appear in plugin search results, even if installed and activated.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Change to httpsYes, Akismet will keep working fine.