May 6th, 2010 | 0 Comments »
It’s come to my attention that people that use WordPress on their web sites have come across the well-known Akismet plug-in that basically gets rid of most spam submitted via comment forms.
However, some people are confused when it comes to Akismet’s statistics. If you are one of those individuals that sees your Akismet statistics sky rocket to double or even triple digit “spam caught” yet have no idea where to actually see all this caught spam then one option is to go into your WordPress control panel and click on “Comments” and then click on “Spam”, it’s possible that within the past 15 days, if any spam bots tried to flood your site with ads they’ll be there for you to edit, approve or delete. What, you tried that already? Then keep reading.
Here is where the big confusion comes in; a lot of people have reported that even though Akismet seems to be catching spam on a daily basis they are not able to see any of the “spam caught” inside the Comments section in WordPress. What some web site creators fail to note is that Akismet also catches spam from any forms created within a site, even those that contain captcha systems (which you really shouldn’t have since Akismet does such a good job). So if you have even one form, whether it’s a contact form or some type of request form then Akismet will also monitor that form and catch any spam that is attempted to be submitted through it. This is where Akismet reports to its statistics but does not show the “spam caught” inside the Comments section in WordPress since most forms send data to an e-mail address rather than post it on a site, and neither does WordPress have a specific area for submitted data through forms anyway.
For instance, I noticed a spike in “spam caught” on my site and yet I didn’t see any of it inside the “Comments” section, so I decided to do some tests. But first, see my Akismet statistics, click on the image to enlarge:
First I tried to send myself spam through my contact form, which was easily blocked and reported in Akismet’s statistics. Nothing showed up under Comments, surprise? Not really, because it wasn’t a comment. Then I tried to submit a comment inside one of my blog posts with some funky info and a link to viagra.com and that was easily blocked as well and reported to Akismet’s statistics and finally posted inside the Comments section under Spam. So there you go, no more confusion as to why Akismet keeps reporting all these high numbers of spam caught and yet not seeing most of them, a big thanks to Akismet’s creators for such a great plug-in!
However, some people are confused when it comes to Akismet’s statistics. If you are one of those individuals that sees your Akismet statistics sky rocket to double or even triple digit “spam caught” yet have no idea where to actually see all this caught spam then one option is to go into your WordPress control panel and click on “Comments” and then click on “Spam”, it’s possible that within the past 15 days, if any spam bots tried to flood your site with ads they’ll be there for you to edit, approve or delete. What, you tried that already? Then keep reading.
Here is where the big confusion comes in; a lot of people have reported that even though Akismet seems to be catching spam on a daily basis they are not able to see any of the “spam caught” inside the Comments section in WordPress. What some web site creators fail to note is that Akismet also catches spam from any forms created within a site, even those that contain captcha systems (which you really shouldn’t have since Akismet does such a good job). So if you have even one form, whether it’s a contact form or some type of request form then Akismet will also monitor that form and catch any spam that is attempted to be submitted through it. This is where Akismet reports to its statistics but does not show the “spam caught” inside the Comments section in WordPress since most forms send data to an e-mail address rather than post it on a site, and neither does WordPress have a specific area for submitted data through forms anyway.
For instance, I noticed a spike in “spam caught” on my site and yet I didn’t see any of it inside the “Comments” section, so I decided to do some tests. But first, see my Akismet statistics, click on the image to enlarge:
First I tried to send myself spam through my contact form, which was easily blocked and reported in Akismet’s statistics. Nothing showed up under Comments, surprise? Not really, because it wasn’t a comment. Then I tried to submit a comment inside one of my blog posts with some funky info and a link to viagra.com and that was easily blocked as well and reported to Akismet’s statistics and finally posted inside the Comments section under Spam. So there you go, no more confusion as to why Akismet keeps reporting all these high numbers of spam caught and yet not seeing most of them, a big thanks to Akismet’s creators for such a great plug-in!
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