One of those frustrating issues that crop up when you are on a server behind a firewall is the inability to configure Akismet in WordPress.

Instructions are simple and involve editing the akismet.php file.

Here’s how to do this properly:

You may need to modify the wp-config.php file – check with your webhost.

Irrespective of the server your host is running, you will need to edit the akismet.php file as follows:

1. find the following line (around line 117)

2. highlight all of the information between

“// Returns array with headers in $response[0] and body in $response[1]”

and

“// filter handler used to return a spam result to pre_comment_approved function akismet_result_spam( $approved ) {”

Be very careful in selecting the code – it’s easy to get that wrong! Here’s an image of the section of the akismet.php file to replace –

3. replace that section with this…

function akismet_http_post($request, $host, $path, $port = 80, $ip=null){         global $wp_version; $akismet_version = constant(‘AKISMET_VERSION’);         $args =Read More »WordPress + Akismet + Server