Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
About Akismet Anti-Spam: Spam Protection
Akismet is the best tool to protect your WordPress and WooCommerce website from spam comments and contact form submissions. It checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam, saving you time and preventing malicious content from being published. It also offers additional features such as showing URLs in comment bodies and a discard feature to block the worst spam.Frequently asked questions
What is Akismet?
Akismet is an anti-spam protection solution for WordPress and WooCommerce. It checks comments and contact form submissions against a global database of spam to prevent the publishing of malicious content.
What features does Akismet have?
Some major features of Akismet include: automatically checking all comments and filtering out spam, providing a status history for each comment, revealing hidden or misleading links in comment bodies, showing the number of approved comments for each user, and a discard feature that blocks the worst spam.
How does Akismet work?
Akismet checks comments and contact form submissions against a global database of spam. It filters out comments that look like spam and provides a status history for each comment. Moderators can also mark comments as spam or unspam.
Do I need to pay for Akismet?
Akismet offers free API keys for personal blogs. Paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.
How can I activate Akismet?
Once you activate Akismet, you will be prompted to get an Akismet.com API key. This key is required to use Akismet.
Changelog
5.4
Release Date – 7 May 2025
- The stats pages now use the user’s locale instead of the site’s locale if they’re different.
- Adds a ‘Compatible plugins’ section that will show installed and active plugins that are compatible with Akismet.
- Akismet now requires PHP version 7.2 or above.
5.3.7
Release Date – 14 February 2025
- Simplify the logic used during a comment-check request to compare comments.
5.3.6
Release Date – 4 February 2025
- Improve the utility of submit-spam and submit-ham requests.
- Modernize styles for the Akismet classic widget.
5.3.5
Release Date – 18 November 2024
- Address compatibility issues with < PHP 7.3 in v5.3.4 release.
5.3.4
Release Date – 18 November 2024
- Improve activation notice on Comments for users who haven’t set up their API key yet.
- Improve notice about commercial site status.
5.3.3
Release Date – 10 July 2024
- Make setup step clearer for new users.
- Remove the stats section from the configuration page if the site has been revoked from the key.
- Skip the Akismet comment check when the comment matches something in the disallowed list.
- Prompt users on legacy plans to contact Akismet support for upgrades.
5.3.2
Release Date – 21 March 2024
- Improve the empty state shown to new users when no spam has been caught yet.
- Update the message shown to users without a current subscription.
- Add foundations for future webhook support.
5.3.1
Release Date – 17 January 2024
- Make the plugin more resilient when asset files are missing (as seen in WordPress Playground).
- Add a link to the ‘Account overview’ page on akismet.com.
- Fix a minor error that occurs when another plugin removes all comment actions from the dashboard.
- Add the akismet_request_args filter to allow request args in Akismet API requests to be filtered.
- Fix a bug that causes some contact forms to include unnecessary data in the comment_content parameter.
5.3
Release Date – 14 September 2023
- Improve display of user notices.
- Add stylesheets for RTL languages.
- Remove initial disabled state from ‘Save changes’ button.
- Improve accessibility of API key entry form.
- Add new filter hooks for Fluent Forms.
- Fix issue with PHP 8.1 compatibility.
5.2
Release Date – 21 June 2023
- Visual refresh of Akismet stats.
- Improve PHP 8.1 compatibility.
- Improve appearance of plugin to match updated stats.
- Change minimum supported PHP version to 5.6 to match WordPress.
- Drop IE11 support and update minimum WordPress version to 5.8 (where IE11 support was removed from WP Core).
5.1
Release Date – 20 March 2023
- Removed unnecessary limit notices from admin page.
- Improved spam detection by including post taxonomies in the comment-check call.
- Removed API keys from stats iframes to avoid possible inadvertent exposure.
5.0.2
Release Date – 1 December 2022
- Improved compatibility with themes that hide or show UI elements based on mouse movements.
- Increased security of API keys by sending them in request bodies instead of subdomains.
5.0.1
Release Date – 28 September 2022
- Added an empty state for the Statistics section on the admin page.
- Fixed a bug that broke some admin page links when Jetpack plugins are active.
- Marked some event listeners as passive to improve performance in newer browsers.
- Disabled interaction observation on forms that post to other domains.
5.0
Release Date – 26 July 2022
- Added a new feature to catch spammers by observing how they interact with the page.
For older changelog entries, please see the additional changelog.txt file delivered with the plugin.
