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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.
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- 06/28 at 11:41 AM
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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]