Stephane Daury (stephdau)
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No problem. 🙂
But you now won’t have to, see https://blog.akismet.com/2018/06/19/version-4-0-8-of-the-akismet-wordpress-plugin-is-now-available/
🙂
In the meantime, feel free to use the
akismet_comment_form_privacy_notice_markupfilter to customize the notice markup to your needs:https://blog.akismet.com/2018/06/07/customisation-options-for-the-akismet-front-end-privacy-notice/
- This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
- This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] How activate for allI’ve also published a post with more information here, based on our ticket interaction. 🙂
https://blog.akismet.com/2018/06/07/customisation-options-for-the-akismet-front-end-privacy-notice/
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In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] About Uninstalling this pluginForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Is this plugin GDPR compatible?Hi @tzeldin88
> The data I saw in the _postmeta table was well beyond 90 days old
Sorry about the misunderstanding, we mean on the API end (our databases).
The data in the comment meta is “yours” (as in, in your database), and only exists as long as the related comment exists.
If the associated comment is edited/deleted, WordPress does its own cleanup/deletions, regardless of what plugins added them:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-includes/comment.php#L1376
That data is stored to comply with WP’s comment history APIs, which wants plugins to log their actions, so site owners can review, or trace, all of a comment’s history. In other words, it’s not for Aksimet to delete, and doing so could be considered meddling with your site’s historical processing data, which is far worse.
The Akismet plugin does, however, have a series of scheduled cleanup jobs to clear unused data (such as for comments that are being deleted automatically when found to be spam), as seen here:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/akismet/trunk/class.akismet.php#L31
Technically, modern WordPress should delete those itself, but we’ve gone to the extent of adding our own cleanup jobs because older WP versions weren’t very good at said cleanups. So we’ve taken it upon ourselves to make sure the data gets cleared.
In that light, if one of your reader sends you a request for erasure on your site (for example), the Akismet (and other plugins’) meta data should be erased by WPs tools when their comments are deleted.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
- This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
- This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
Hi @boldt
The Akismet plugin leverages the following action to add that privacy notice, which all themes normally implement: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/akismet/trunk/class.akismet.php?rev=1882139#L56
add_action( 'comment_form_after', array( 'Akismet', 'display_comment_form_privacy_notice' ) );See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/comment_form_after/
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Hey Phil.
We’ll look into it, doesn’t sound like a bad idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
Hi there,
It’s possible you might have to update the language files for your site by visiting
wp-admin/update-core.phpfirst (see bottom). My notice was in English on my (French) test site until I used the built-in, user-controlled, WP updater.Here’s how it looks after update, on my test site: https://cloudup.com/cBvoVSlDbVv
Sure thing.
Extra note: to help you with your own privacy policy, Akismet is also integrating with WP’s new privacy tools found in
wp-admin/privacy.php, providing you sample text in their “Privacy Policy Guide” page, underwp-admin/tools.php?wp-privacy-policy-guide(see under WordPress’ own text)Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] About Uninstalling this pluginActually, that’s not technically true: the comment meta associated with Akismet will be left in your database, as it is a WordPress-level record of what happened to the comment(s) at the time of processing. Clearing that would leave a hole in your site’s processing history that would then leave you helpless, should you try to trace a comment’s history, and would be an unrequested and undesirabe data erasure by the plugin. You, as a site owner, can of course feel free to erase whatever data you feel is necessary.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Akismet Ham – but comments disabled?Akismet also checks pingbacks, in case you left the related option on: “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new articles”, in
wp-admin/options-discussion.phpThe solution pointed out by @mcgyver70 is the best way to achieve this indeed. That filter was specifically added for this purpose.
Note that your own privacy policy should still point to https://akismet.com/privacy (which will have the info or redirect to the proper info, as it does now).
- This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
- This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
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In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Discrepancy in privacy settingsThanks for the note. This has already been fixed in the development version, and will be part of the next version: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1887011
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Warning after UpdatesThe warning seems to be coming from
wp-content/plugins/simple-lightbox.You can find their support forum here: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-lightbox
- This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
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In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Akismet CookiesSure: the plugin does not set any cookies.