Akismet extension and module combo
Development and Programming
OK, first thing to say: awesome job. This was the one thing I missed since switching from Wordpress. It works like a charm and is way neater than captchas. Thanks for developing this, great work!
I have hit an issue - I have only noticed it since installing the Akismet module this morning: Any post with just one word in gets met with
“The Form You Submitted Contains the Following Errors: Unable to receive your comment at this time”
I have tested that a spam style comment gets picked up - it does, and any comment with more than one word that isn’t spam gets through, but one word = no go.
Any ideas? Is this down to a setting I can tweak in the Akismet module, or is it just co-incidence that I noticed this issue today? Any help much appreciated
Again, though, great work on this.
Thanks, Andy. I appreciate it. 😊
Then, as for your issue. Have you seen Lisa’s remark in this thread about that very same error message? It has to do with duplicate comment entries. Check out this KB-entry.
:red: Oops. I did see Lisa’s reply, but totally missed what it was actually saying. Thanks for alerting me to it, and for the link to the KB. Sorry to have asked a duplicate question.
This extension may be just what I need. I am having a terrible time with SPAM coming through weblog comments. Over the past week the amount of SPAM I am receiving is making me consider taking down what is a relatively low volume BLOG. In any event, my question is does this plug in work with version 1.3.1? I haven’t spent the time or money to upgrade to 1.4 and would like to use this plug in to try and get a handle on this problem now. I cannot find a way to require CAPTCHAS on comments on this release either. If there is a setting you know of that I might be missing which would at least enable this feature to slow down the comment SPAM, I would welcome this assistance as well. TIA for your time.
Version 1.3.1? Well, the current version of the Akismet combo certainly won’t work: that’s only compatible with EE 1.5.1 build 20061016 (and onwards). So that would mean you could only use the 0.1.0 version of the Akismet combo (download available in this thread). I haven’t tested it in 1.3.1, though. Don’t even know for sure if extensions were available back then!
Anyways, I would strongly recommend that you upgrade to 1.5.1. Major bug fixes, extra modules, trust me, it’s well worth the effort.
Extensions were added in 1.4 as you can see from the changelog - hence, despise Lowe’s best intentions, this won’t work with 1.3.1. =)
Captchas can be enabled for comments in CP Home › Admin › Weblog Administration › Weblog Management › Edit Section › Comment Posting Preferences. There are other anti-spam measures including the built-in blacklist (updated from pMachine if you are a licensed user) and the Bad Behavior extension, plus throttling and a variety of other built-in security measures.
Quick query - I have used this with huge success, and I think it’s fantastic. Today, though, something weird happened. It returned a message saying my ‘API Key appears to be invalid’ whenever anyone tried to leave a comment. A bit of googling suggests that this is likely to be due to an outage at Akismet’s end, and the fact that a WP blog I run has started slinging spam comments into moderation rather than Akismet also seems to add weight to that theory. Does that sound right to anyone else? Or do I have bigger problems?
Assuming it is down to Akismet, is there a way of changing that message so that it says something more useful to a commenter - like ’ we can’t accept comments right now, please try a little later’? I changed the error message for duplicate comments by editing the lang. file - would it e something similar to do it for the API Kety message?
Thanks in advance
i got the same message with the …api key..
Does that sound right to anyone else? Or do I have bigger problems?
You’re right, the Akismet server appears to be down. I received messages from the Akismet mailing list from all over the world. I guess measures are being taken…
Assuming it is down to Akismet, is there a way of changing that message so that it says something more useful to a commenter - like ’ we can’t accept comments right now, please try a little later’? I changed the error message for duplicate comments by editing the lang. file - would it e something similar to do it for the API Kety message?
You can edit the file lang.akismet_check.php to suit your needs.
I’ll probably add another option in this combo when I can find the time: moderate comments when Akismet is unreachable (y/n)… That’ll be a nice backup plan…
Ahh, I guess if you are getting it on your site, too, Misu, tehn the problem must lie with Akismet - that’s good news 😊
I’ll probably add another option in this combo when I can find the time: moderate comments when Akismet is unreachable (y/n)… That’ll be a nice backup plan…
That would be an awesome addition to an already fantastic module - great stuff!
Thanks for the info re Akismet’s server and editing the messages.
Adding the is-akismet-reachable-check turned out to be fairly easy. 😊
thxs
Fantastic!! Works like a charm. Great stuff Lodewijk! Thanks.
Seems there may be a small issue - or it could be something I am doing wrong. Akismet is back up, but if you turn moderation off, teh viagra-test-123 comment gets through. If you turn the moderation option back on, it seems to bypass Akismet altogether and just moderate. Any ideas - is it me doing/not doing something or is there a minor bug?