Stephane Daury (stephdau)

Thanks for the report. We’ll look into it, and get it fixed for the next plugin release.

Hello @tobiasb92 .

We’ve handled it on our end. Should be good now.

Hi there @draky .

Is that for WordPress comments, or other types of spam?

In its WP plugin settings screen, Akismet has an option to “Silently discard the worst and most pervasive spam so I never see it.” that should do this for you.

Noting this has been handled through a support ticket.

Hey @jerclarke! It’s been a minute since we’ve talked WP. ??
Sorry for the delay, mis-sorted notif.

Noted, but in the context of testing, something you might want to explore leveraging is the AKISMET_TEST_MODE constant and related Akismet::is_test_mode(). That’ll set the is_test param when querying the API, so your tests don’t affect training, etc.

Sure thing, happy to help. ??

If you need further help that requires getting into the details of your account or statistics, I recommend reaching out to us from https://akismet.com/contact

Hi again,

are all the sites present? could it be that some site does not appear in the list?

The sites listed are the ones that have placed an API query to check for spam during the selected month (aka: considered active).

Depending on traffic to your site(s), what forms use Akismet to check for spam, etc, it’s possible some of your sites do not check anything for spam at all on any given month (so it would not appear in that list that month).

Hi @simonelongato

Absolutely. If you login to akismet.com, you’ll be taken to your account section, where a list of active sites using your key will be displayed. You can also go back in time to see what sites used your keys in the past.

See:

• https://docs.akismet.com/account/log-into-account/
• https://docs.akismet.com/account/remove-inactive-sites/

If you happen to also be interested, the list in the account section is powered by this API endpoint, which you can also leverage for your needs, if you want.

Hi there,

I’m not sure if that’ll entirely answer your question, but Akismet does protects your WP site against trackbacks and pingbacks spam, which both use XML-RPC.

Hi @bedas.

We’ll look into a new hook to achieve that in a future release indeed.

I was going to suggest that maybe the Auto Approve Comments plugin could be of help, but I checked their code, and they actually don’t approve a comment if Akismet thought it’s spam.

On the other hand, maybe the approach they’re taking could be something you could replicate for your needs: they hook on wp_insert_comment, set $comment['comment_approved'] to 1, and update the comment.

That wouldn’t bypass Akismet per se, though. It would just negate it flagging something as spam.

To completely bypass Akismet, you can also leverage the fact that it won’t do anything in the way of checking for spam if the API key isn’t configured.

So, in an mu-plugin (or your preferred way to auto-run code), you could:

if ( ! is_admin() ) {
        add_filter( 'akismet_get_api_key', '__return_null' );
}

… for the users you want. That way, every time our plugin tries to use Akismet::get_api_key(), it won’t get one, and won’t check the API, etc.

The is_admin() test is there so that those users still get access to Akismet’s functionalities in wp-admin (like in comment moderation, etc).

Hi @bedas.

There are multiple ways you can achieve this. Let me discuss a few of them with the team, and we’ll get back to you soon with some suggestions. ??

Hi there,

Lack of minification reported by such tools isn’t really raising an issue per se, but more of an optimization suggestion.

Our view is that Javascript in plugins shouldn’t be minified, as we feel it obfuscates the code for anyone looking to learn, or contribute. Akismet being bundled with WP, many would-be developers start their path to learning plugin development by reading through our plugin’s code.

Note that there are many WP plugins, and server-level (Apache, nginx, etc) modules that can handle this automatically for your whole site.

I see my colleagues have replied to your support request and provided you with the refunds you needed.

Will mark this as resolved. ??

Hi Adeline,

This sounds very strange, and that there was some sort of error with our payment provider (Stripe).

Could you please reach out to us via https://akismet.com/contact (choose “I have a billing question.”) with your API key and/or email address, and we’ll tend to this as quickly as possible, including refunding you for the extra charges.

With apologies, ad looking forward to resolving that unfortunate situation.