Akismet Anti-Spam

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This extension will automatically check new posts against the Akismet spam rulesets and identify spam if it is posted on your site. All spam is set to moderated status until an admin/moderator approves/deletes it.

This setting can be set on a usergroup basis so only certain usergroups are scanned.

I have no affiliation with Akismet, I just know that it catches about 99% of all spam I get on my blogs.

You will need an API key to use this product, but they are free and you can get one immediately at wordpress.com when you sign up.

Installs easily, just upload the included files, and install the product file. NO TEMPLATE EDITS!

You should probably use a promotion strategy outlined here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....3&postcount=18

This will reduce your Akismet usage and not filter your regular users who you are pretty confident will not post SPAM.

A good mod that works with this hack is the "Moderation Queue on FORUMHOME" hack here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=120150

The only other thing you need to do is:

CLICK INSTALL

This modification is FREE of charge, but if you wish to reward me for my work, and encourage future modifications by me, please donate below - :

[Troy Roberts]

Thanks. I didn't figure it did. Just narrowing down the problem.

How about a 3.6 version? Any word on that?

[steven s]

Originally Posted by Troy Roberts

How about a 3.6 version? Any word on that?

:up: WOW! This is cool. After installing it a few days ago it snagged cellphone spam. Does this slow down the site?

And it seems to be working just fine in 3.6.

[Jafo232]

It shouldn't really slow down the script if you follow the promotional strategy outlined here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....3&postcount=18

[steven s]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

It shouldn't really slow down the script if you follow the promotional strategy outlined here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....3&postcount=18

I took that advice. I should have no more than a few members that get their posts checked. Currently I have only 7 people as registered. Everyone else has been moved to another usergroup. After 5 posts they will be moved too. Works very well, thanks again!

[tom w]

Is there a way to report spam that isn't caught by Akismet?

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by tom w

Is there a way to report spam that isn't caught by Akismet?

No, not at this time, I just do not have the time to add that feature yet.

[rob30UK]

I'm itching to test it.... and trying to resist.

edit... I tested it, and it never picked up the spam.
I posted saying 'buy cialis and viagra'

why that never got picked up I dont know.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by rob30UK

I'm itching to test it.... and trying to resist.

edit... I tested it, and it never picked up the spam.
I posted saying 'buy cialis and viagra'

why that never got picked up I dont know.

If you really want to test it, find a spam post already on your site, make sure you belong to a primary usergroup that is being filtered, copy the spam post into a new thread.

[TTG]

If you have members in custom usergroups this hack really screws up the access masks .. had to click un-install

[gopherhockey]

Originally Posted by TTG

If you have members in custom usergroups this hack really screws up the access masks .. had to click un-install

What exactly do you mean by that?

I'm looking to get something like this in place. However, I don't want to have to build a new usergroup and move people into it as previously mentioned.

It appears to have slowed down posting as well.

There is another hack here that allows you to specify the post count of users that have SPAM blocking applied... (i.e. less than 10). It would be nice if this was an option vs. messing with usergroups.

I'd use the other one (SpamBuster 1.0.0) but it too isn't working correctly and the author seems to be too busy to support it.