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Blocked comment count fluctuates heavily in FV Antispam Wordpress plugin

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  • Vijay Padiyar 12 years, 3 months ago

    Hello

    As suggested by you, I am posting my query here.

    I installed FV Antispam WordPress plugin v1.9 and it works great, barring one problem. The “Blocked” comments count on the Dashboard shows wildly fluctuating figures. One day it’s in thousands, next day it’s in hundreds, third day in double digits, and so on. But actual number of comments blocked are nowhere near these numbers. What could be the reason?

    My site is http://www.vijaypadiyar.in and it’s hosted on a shared Linux environment.

    Thanks

    Vijay

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  • Martin 12 years ago

    Hello Vijay,

    all spam caught by FV Antispam should be in trash. Each message should increment the counter by one.

    If you are using Akismet, check if you didn’t enabled “Auto-delete spam submitted on posts more than a month old.”. Checking that will make Akismet hard delete all spam comments on posts older than one month.

    Perhaps these messages are incrementing the counter, but you don’t see them as they are hard deleted (without going to trash).

    Also, are you using any caching other than WP Super Cache or Hyper Cache? I’m not sure how, but I don’t see any reason why the number should fluctuate like that. The plugin uses it’s own option “fv_antispam” which is array, so nothing should interfere with it.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Vijay Padiyar 12 years ago

    Hi Martin

    Thanks for the reply. No I have not enabled auto-delete spam option in Akismet. In any case, I delete my spam and trash folders daily. I don’t think these are interfering with the count.

    For example, I may log in to WordPress in the night and FV blocked count may be 300. There may be a few spam and trashed comments which I delete. Then next morning, the count jumps to say 3000, though there are just a few new comments (including spam & trash) since last night. Then again in the evening it might come down to a few hundred. I remember at one time it was as high as 40,000. Currently it is around 400 :).

    No I am using W3 Total Cache and no other caching plugin.

    Thanks

    Vijay

    Martin 12 years ago

    Hello Vijay,

    if this is important for your work, you might just submit a request at our pro plugin support. That would allow us to fix the problem directly on your website and also fix any related problem in our plugin.

    Also, we are preparing a new version of the plugin. So maybe you won’t have these issues with the new version.

    Or if you know a bit of PHP, you can add a log for this in update_spam_count() function. A dump of both POST and SERVER variables together with the spam_count variable into a text file would be really helpful for any debugging.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Vijay Padiyar 12 years ago

    Hi Martin

    No it’s not really important for me. Sure I will wait for the next version and check if the issue is fixed.

    Thanks

    Vijay

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