Dueling Plug Ins
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Interesting problem has arisen with two of the plug ins I run on my Canadian Personal Finance site.
I added the commentluvplug in a while ago, where commenters are invited to include a link to one of their posts on their site. I like this plug in as it is kind of cute, and the links put into the comments are actually “no follow” so it doesn’t hurt me much either.
I also run Akismet comment spam checker and it does not seem to like commentluv at all. Luckily I check the spam queue before I flush it each time (this plug in has caught over 11,000 spam comments for me, so I do highly recommend it), and I find a bunch of comments from regular commenters in the SPAM queue, because they had used the commentluv post capability as well.
My guess is Akismet sees the link in the comment assumes it is SPAM and throws the comment out. Hopefully it will learn not to do this, but I will need to watch my SPAM queue a little closer for a while is my guess.
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Andy Bailey said:
there is a settings page for akismet that allows you to specify the amount of urls in a post before considering it spam, you could try increasing it to 2 which is what works for me.
November 24th, 2008 at 11:45 am -
Andy Bailey said:
me again, I think your subscription box is being used for the url field . you can fix it by going to your commentluv settings page and changing the pull down menu from the author url field from “name” to “id”
November 24th, 2008 at 11:47 am
