ISO100
Photography, Web Design and Consulting
Blog
Akismet for ExpressionEngine
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Having used Akismet on our corporate blog to help thwart the ever-increasing deluge of porn, diet pills and penile enlargement comments, I figured it would be great to install on my personal blog. Yesterday I ran into an odd issue here where enabling Captcha on my blog post pages caused EE to display a PHP error. Instead of fighting to resolve that problem, I just disabled Captcha. Akismet will let me still allow comments without any other hoops for visitors to jump through.
It just so happens that there’s a convenient add-on to ExpressionEngine that integrates with Akismet via a packaged Extension and Module. Installation was a snap and only required me logging into my old WordPress account to find my API key.
Lowe is quite the ExpressionEngine extension master. Check out his other add-ons for EE on his site.
- Category:
- Web Design
- Tagged With:
- webdev expressionengine module extension spam
- Posted By:
- Ian Pitts
- Posted:
- 06/28 at 11:41 AM
- Views:
- 3094
Comments:
Got my first comment spam (even with CAPTCHA), so decided to go ahead and install this add on. As you said, it was a simple install and meant I could remove the dreaded CAPTCHA from my forms.
The only thing I don’t like—and I’m not sure this is the add on or ExpressionEngine itself—is that if Akismet catches any comments and “flags” them for moderation, I don’t get an email notification as I do on comments that are passed through.
This is a major issue as far as I’m concerned.
By Emily on Monday, August 25, 2008 [Comment Permalink]
Thanks for the tip… I could really use this!
By Tory on Friday, September 12, 2008 [Comment Permalink]
Hi..
Nice post ....
It is really a nice post….
By Leather Jackets Online on Monday, October 19, 2009 [Comment Permalink]
So, do you think Akismet is good enough to clean spam? I don’t even thinking using WP. It really bad for my SEO campaign you see. No more people want to comment on WP since they will always block by white blank screen. Duh!
By Women's Clothing on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 [Comment Permalink]
I used Akismet too for avoiding unexpected spam comment. It’s a freeware and easy to use, just create an account in wordpress.com to get WordPress.com API key and just install the plugin. and now more than 400 unidentified spam can be deleted without filtering and wasting your time..
By Crazy Blogger on Sunday, November 01, 2009 [Comment Permalink]
Sometimes spamming is troublesome, a lot of people make your blog as an advertisement, and it’s totally suck. That’s why, for the blogger, you must install some program to protect your blog from the spammer.
By Going Green on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 [Comment Permalink]