Christopher Finke
@cfinke on WordPress.org, @Christopher Finke - Akismet on Slack
Bio
- Member Since: June 19th, 2007
- Website: chrisfinke.com
- Job Title: Spam Assassin
- Employer: Automattic
Contribution History
Christopher Finke’s badges:- bbPress Contributor
- Core Contributor
- Documentation Contributor
- Plugin Developer
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Committed [3203261] to Plugins SVN:
Update the Playground blueprint to automatically set a dummy API key ... -
Posted a reply to Conflict Between Akismet Plugin and CAPTCHA, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not sure I understand; can you post a screenshot here or send it to… -
Posted a reply to Akismet and Multi Step Gravity Form, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not sure exactly what issue that would be (although I can think of a… -
Posted a reply to Akismet and Multi Step Gravity Form, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I don't see any missed spam reports from your site; can you mark some… -
Posted a reply to Conflict Between Akismet Plugin and CAPTCHA, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What error or issue are you seeing specifically? -
Mentioned in [59267] on Core SVN:
Comments: Validate new comments before and after comment data is filtered. -
Posted a reply to Massive spam in French language, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm going to mark this as resolved, since I don't think there's anything else we… -
Posted a reply to Massive spam emails coming through, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You should be able to enter the same key you're using on washingtonsquareparkblog.com for cathrynsworld.com,… -
Posted a reply to Massive spam emails coming through, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You're welcome, have a great day. -
Posted a reply to Massive spam emails coming through, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, it looks like your key was suspended due to a bug on our end,… -
Posted a reply to Massive spam in French language, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've been looking at your missed spam reports, and I'm not sure that there's much… -
Posted a reply to Massive spam in French language, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, we'll continue to watch for any missed spam and make adjustments accordingly. -
Created ticket #61827 on Core Trac:
wp_check_comment_disallowed_list() can't be used to match unprocessed HTML -
Posted a reply to PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class “Akismet” not found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If something tried to access [yoursite.com]/wp-content/plugins/akismet/views/config.php directly, this would be an expected error. If that… -
Posted a reply to woocommerce user accounts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, it's not intended as a defense against unwelcome user signups. -
Posted a reply to Duplicate Field – Latest Update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The duplicate alt_s field is not added by Akismet. Based on this thread: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternative-email-field-visible/ I… -
Committed [3057012] to Plugins SVN:
The akismet_request_args filter, which is not yet used anywhere, ... -
Committed [3056338] to Plugins SVN:
Akismet: Refactor pre_check_pingback. Previously, this function was ... -
Posted a reply to Bypass logged in users, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We'll keep it in mind as an official feature, but in the meantime, you could… -
Posted a reply to Still receiving lots of spam, no reply from Pro support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Alright. I'm going to mark this as resolved, but if you do need help with… -
Posted a reply to Askimet is blocking one of my Contact 7 forms, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I used legit data from past form submissions to populate my test submissions. For example,… -
Posted a reply to Askimet is blocking one of my Contact 7 forms, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I looked through our logs for your site this week, and there didn't appear to… -
Committed [3027494] to Plugins SVN:
Add support for webhooks. This commit contains all of the necessary ... -
Committed [3019568] to Plugins SVN:
Ensure that the appropriate input field name prefix is used when ... -
Committed [3016639] to Plugins SVN:
Add the akismet_request_args filter to allow request args in Akismet ... -
Posted a reply to Webmentions flagged as spam?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you email us at support@akismet.com with your API key or website URL so we… -
Posted a reply to Does nothing for contact form spam, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Some contact forms need to be specially configured after installing Akismet. If you message us… -
Posted a reply to disable_functions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Akismet should function fine with all of those functions disabled (inasmuch as WordPress itself will… -
Posted a reply to issues with broken internal JavaScript and CSS files, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Marking as resolved; if you're still having issues, let us know. -
Posted a reply to disable_functions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not sure I understand; these are all PHP functions that, if you have appropriate… -
Posted a reply to Creates fake comments – not recommended!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Akismet does not create fake comments. The source code is available and anyone is welcome… -
Posted a reply to Latest Php Version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes. -
Committed [2947882] to Plugins SVN:
Cleaning up whitespace and formatting. -
Posted a reply to Content security policy inclusions when using this plugin?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The Akismet plugin only loads JavaScript and CSS that are shipped with the plugin, so… -
Committed [2891559] to Plugins SVN:
WordPress coding standards: single quotes, spacing, and braces. -
Posted a reply to confict with vendor dashboad support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello, Can you email us at support@akismet.com with your website URL or API key so… -
Posted a reply to hidden akismet form field showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Noting that we're now working through this over email; I'll update this thread when it's… -
Posted a reply to hidden akismet form field showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Or if you prefer, you can email support@akismet.com if you'd rather keep working on this… -
Posted a reply to hidden akismet form field showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Which version of Contact Form 7 are you using? And do you have any special… -
Posted a reply to hidden akismet form field showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It appears that something is modifying the HTML that Akismet adds to contact forms; what… -
Committed [2883790] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.1. -
Posted a reply to False Positives, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I checked the logs and found one user who was caught as a false positive… -
Committed [2876110] to Plugins SVN:
Don't use the API key as a URL parameter for the stats iframes. ... -
Posted a reply to Dequeue Scripts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Try this; as long as it is in your child theme's functions.php file or in… -
Posted a reply to Dequeue Scripts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Something like this should work: add_action( 'comment_form', 'dequeue_akismet_js', 99 ); function dequeue_akismet_js() { wp_dequeue_script( 'akismet-frontend'… -
Committed [2869672] to Plugins SVN:
Send the tags and categories of the parent post to Akismet when a ... -
Posted a reply to Why Akismet don’t clear data after deleting?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What is the full path of the directory that didn't get deleted? The removal of… -
Posted a reply to they won’t send you a verification code if you do not pay, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I assure you that this is not intentional; there is no requirement to pay in… -
Created a topic, Footer scripts are minified (with patch), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello, An Akismet user who was using Siteground Optim… -
Committed [2827210] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.0.2.
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