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.<\/p>\n
Instructions are simple and involve editing the akismet.php<\/em> file.<\/p>\n Here’s how to do this properly:<\/p>\n You may need to modify the wp-config.php file – check with your webhost.<\/p>\n Irrespective of the server your host is running, you will need to edit the akismet.php<\/em> file as follows:<\/p>\n 1. find the following line (around line 117)<\/p>\n 2. highlight all<\/strong> of the information between<\/p>\n “\/\/ Returns array with headers in $response[0] and body in $response[1]”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n and<\/p>\n “\/\/ filter handler used to return a spam result to pre_comment_approved function akismet_result_spam( $approved ) {”<\/p>\n Be very careful in selecting the code – it’s easy to get that wrong! 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