akismet

How to change Akismet commenter privacy notice?

Aha, I finally got it working: <?php /* Plugin Name: Akismet Better Privacy Notice Description: Inform users about what’s actually happening with their data */ add_filter ( ‘akismet_comment_form_privacy_notice_markup’, ‘better_display_comment_form_privacy_notice’ ); function better_display_comment_form_privacy_notice() { echo sprintf( ‘<p class=”akismet_comment_form_privacy_notice”>’ . ‘Warning: This site uses Akismet to filter spam.’ . ‘ Until or unless I can find a … Read more

Auto block ALL IP’s indicated by Akismet?

Personally I highly recommend to not use IP blocks at .htaccess level. There are simply too many false positives possibilities for that to work reliably. I had encountered WP blogs (luckily wave of those seem to have faded) that just shut me out, accusing my IP of belonging to evil spamer… Static IP that belonged … Read more

Activate Akismet on installation with akismet key

The link Bainternet provides looks quite promising. Now you only need to automatticaly add the API key. Akismet has a constant for this called *WPCOM_API_KEY* (source code). So you could add something like this to your wp-config.php file and Akismet would use it as API key. define( ‘WPCOM_API_KEY’, ‘abcd1234efgh’ );

What do comments with […] mean?

Its most likely to be a TrackBack or pingback: In a nutshell, TrackBack was designed to provide a method of notification between websites: it is a method of person A saying to person B, “This is something you may be interested in.” To do that, person A sends a TrackBack ping to person B.

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