Akismet 3.0.4 Plugin for WordPress Released
Version 3.0.4 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. This update adds better compatibility with Apache 2.4, allows https author URLs to be removed from comments, removes the “Check for...
View ArticleDecember and all of 2014 Stats Roundup
Gone with the Wind is the highest-grossing movie of all time – making over 3 billion dollars1. The next highest-grossing film is Avatar, with just over 2.7 billion dollars to its name. In December,...
View ArticleJanuary 2015 Stats Roundup
January has been a slow and steady month in Akismet-land. Whereas in months prior, we’ve broken daily spam records, in January the spammers took it easy and we never saw a day with over 300 million...
View ArticleFebruary 2015 Stats Roundup
February was another slow spam month for Akismet. We didn’t even hit 200 million comments on any day this month. You can see the daily breakdown of the spam and ham comments Akismet caught in the graph...
View ArticleAkismet 3.1 Plugin for WordPress Released
Version 3.1 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. As of version 3.1, all calls to the Akismet API are now made using SSL, increasing the confidentiality of your commenters’ data as it...
View ArticleAkismet WordPress Plugin 3.1.1
Version 3.1.1 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. This update includes an improvement to the “Remove comment author URL” feature and merges the pingback DDOS protection from Akismet...
View ArticleMarch 2015 Stats Roundup
In March, Akismet saw 5,426,166,500 spam comments go through. Though this was a rise of 32% since last month, it’s a decrease from last year’s March by 19 percent. It’s been a quiet March. This image,...
View ArticleApril 2015 Stats Roundup
April turned out to be a slow month in Akismetland. The highest number of spam comments we saw come in this month on a given day was about 177 million. The total amount of spam we saw come through this...
View ArticleAkismet WordPress Plugin 3.1.2
Version 3.1.2 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. This update includes seventeen fixes and enhancements; they’re summarized in the changelog (or for all of the details, the revision...
View ArticleAkismet WordPress Plugin 3.1.3
Version 3.1.3 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. This update addresses an issue causing some users to see blank Akismet settings screens. After installing this update, the settings...
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