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Thanks for the question @dashaun645!
Once Akismet discovers some spam, it will start showing up in the spam folder and the Akismet stats will update as well.
If you want to test it right away, you can submit a comment that includes “akismet-guaranteed-spam” in the content. Akismet will always flag that as spam, which makes it useful for confirming everything is wired up correctly.
There are a few more tips on confirming Akismet is working here:
https://akismet.com/support/getting-started/confirm/Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] cannot reach akismet to sign upSorry to hear you’ve been having trouble with the contact form, @wp223. That sounds frustrating!
Were you entering the http:// or https:// at the beginning of your site URL too? I think that’s currently required on the form, but we may remove that requirement to make things simpler.
You can also contact us on support@akismet.com with your query if that’s easier.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] MySQL 8.4 and PHP 8.3 supportLet’s see if we can figure that out for you @stimpsonjcat.
The minimum version of PHP we currently specify is 5.6.20 and the Akismet plugin should work on all available PHP versions above that. We do have it successfully running on test sites with PHP 8.3 and 8.4.
Can you tell us your WordPress version, and what version of Akismet you currently have installed?
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Daylight robberyThanks for your feedback @chauhans.
I just wanted to highlight that Akismet is free for non-profit organizations:
https://akismet.com/support/getting-started/guide-for-nonprofit-organizations/
Also – if you’re installing it for personal (i.e. non-commercial) use, you can choose your own price to pay for your Personal subscription. If you wish, that price can be $0.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Self installs on all my WP sitesThanks for your feedback @sbwdblog8.
I just wanted to clear up that Akismet does not self-install, but it has been included as part of WordPress for a long time now (I believe since WordPress v2.0 in 2005). The Akismet plugin is not activated by default when installed with WordPress in this way.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Preprocess Comment before AkismetHappens to the best of us @mayhem30! Glad you got it working.
Thanks again for the report @itapress!
This is fixed in our new release, v5.3.6:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/akismet/tags/5.3.6/views/notice.php#L70
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Akismet server offline?Thanks for reporting this and sorry to hear you’ve had difficulty connecting to Akismet.
The
comment-checkendpoint currently accepts requests via POST only, so accessing the endpoint via GET (for example in your browser) will always return an error. Admittedly this could return a more descriptive status code than 500, so we’ll look into improving that.The server status is looking good at the moment and I’m not seeing any issues connecting from our test sites. Please let us know if you continue to experience connection difficulties and we’ll investigate further for you.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] The One Plugin We Never Build Without!It’s always nice to hear this. Thank you for the kind words @siriusmw! We’re glad that Akismet is working well for you. I’ve shared your feedback with our development team.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Fluent forms deprecated hookThanks again for reporting this @asofantzis! We’ve just released Akismet plugin v5.3 which includes the updated Fluent Forms filters.
https://akismet.com/blog/version-5-3-of-the-akismet-wordpress-plugin-is-now-available/
Thanks @treibstoff! We’ve fixed this one in the recently-released v5.3 of the Akismet plugin:
https://akismet.com/blog/version-5-3-of-the-akismet-wordpress-plugin-is-now-available/