Comments on: Recovering a comment marked as spam in Wordpress

By: Ruben

Ruben — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:57:50 +0000

Actually, quite frankly, the commentary is more interesting messages themselves. (Not to insult the author, of course:))

By: SSColeman

SSColeman — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:43:44 +0000

Thanks for the information. I was able to set up the Akismet plugin, but unfortunately, I guess my deleted comments were more than a month old, so they are still missing! Oops!

By: ThinkingSerious

ThinkingSerious — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:21:37 +0000

Thanks for the post, worked as described.

@C. Erickson

The plugin works after the fact. Just saved me right now.

By: rgz

rgz — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:34:12 +0000

This was very helpful. Thanks a lot !

By: C. Erickson

C. Erickson — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:16:02 +0000

Thanks so much, Angie. That’s the information I needed.

Now, after reading the snippet you posted, I have to go find out about those commercial keys. I didn’t set up my blog to earn revenue, but if that ever changes, I want to know what I need to do.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:04:05 +0000

Yeah, just go register. They don’t have to host it. It works great I have enabled it on other blogs I work with.

http://www.diaryforteens.com/
http://www.nogripes.com/
http://www.ultratech.us/

By: admin

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:57:32 +0000

Here is a copy of my e-mail reply to the question above:

Hi Carolyn,

This is what I got from the Akismet website (http://akismet.com/personal/):

“You can get a free API key by registering for a WordPress.com user account. The API key will be emailed to you after you register. Please note that the use of the key is covered by our TOS and that free keys can only be used for personal blogs. If you are a commercial entity or if you are making more than $500 from your personal blog, please get a commercial key instead.”

Privately hosted blogs (like yours) are separate from the free blogs available at Wordpress.com (unless your hosting company has gone and opened a free Wordpress account in your name, which is unlikely :)) So the two shouldn’t conflict with each other. And to get the free API, yes, you will need to sign up for a Wordpress.com account, which will end up having an address like “myname.wordpress.com”.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Angie

By: C. Erickson

C. Erickson — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:26:16 +0000

What if you *don’t* have a WordPress.com account? I don’t think I do. My blog is hosted by my hosting company, and I don’t remember ever having signed up for a WordPress.com account.

So my question, I guess, is whether I need to independently sign up for a WordPress.com account to get my API or whether that will “mess up” my independently-hosted blog? Does that make sense?

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:37:02 +0000

Thanks so much for these instructions! Kudos to you!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:11:33 +0000

Very helpful, thanks! Just waiting for my WP account verification email. I knew there had to be a way to get Spammed messages back.

Mark