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Why Can’t I Re-Check Spam With Akismet & WordPress 2.5? (Workaround)

I recently installed WordPress 2.5 and among the changes I noticed was a loss of Akismet‘s “Recheck Spam” button (or something like that. It didn’t seem like such a problem at the time, but then I got swamped with so much trackback and comment spam that the flood DOS‘d my server. I had to disable comments and trackbacks for a time, which brought my server back, but my moderation queue still had over 500 comments waiting for me. Most of those are spam, but I like to think there are a couple real comments among them.

And that’s when I really wondered where Akismet’s “Recheck Queue for Spam” button went.

I looked inside the code and found the appropriate functions there. In fact, it even includes a WP2.5 specific function, akismet_check_for_spam_button(). I’m not exactly sure why the button doesn’t appear, but at least all the code is still there to do the work, and all I have to do is manually check the URL:

edit-comments.php?page=akismet-admin&recheckqueue=true&noheader=true

And after running that a few times (it timed out a few times), my moderation queue went from over 500 to under 100. That’s something I can manage.

It’s worth noting, however, that all a person really has to do is update the darn Aksimet plugin. Reminder to self: It installs with the rest of WP with SVN, but I it doesn’t update with the rest of WP. A quick svn up inside the directory, however, is all it takes.

Posted on Monday, April 7th, 2008 at 6:18 am in Technology   |  RSS feed

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One Comment to “Why Can’t I Re-Check Spam With Akismet & WordPress 2.5? (Workaround)”

    
  1. Kathy
    May 7, 2010 at 11:13 am

    I seem to have a problem as I have over 6,000 spam messages and the recheck for spam button just causes the page to hang. Does anyone have any other ideas. I tried deleting and reinstalling askimet, but that didn’t help.

    

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