Is it possible to turn Akismet off on Wordpress?

Akismet protects my blog and all Wordpress blogs from spam. The thing is; I'm pretty sure that it's just deleting comments from legitimate users. It won't even let me moderate them, it just gets rid of them so I can never check to see who they were sent by. Does anyone know of a way to stop this?? x

Tags: Akismet, Comments, Spam, Wordpress

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Permalink Reply by Dr Brainspiller on April 6, 2010 at 3:52pm

Anyone..? Anyone at all..?

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Permalink Reply by Eric the BeehiveHairdresser on April 7, 2010 at 9:07am

Assuming that you are on a self-hosted Wordpress.org site, this is how you do it:

Dashboard -> Plugins -> find the Akismet plugin, check the box next to it and then click deactivate.

As for a Wordpress.com subdomain blog...it might be the same thing, or not. I really don't know.

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Permalink Reply by Living with Balls on April 7, 2010 at 10:27am

I have akismet and I think it works great. I've only had it mark legitimate comments as spam a couple times. It should let you moderate them. If you go to the spam folder, you can approve comments marked as spam from there.

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Permalink Reply by cooper on April 7, 2010 at 12:22pm

Not if you are using the free version. You can delete the plugin if it's self hosted.

Go to settings, then discussion and check "Don’t discard spam on old posts". If that is checked it should not delete them.

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