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Akismet Auntie Spam for WordPress

Reskins the Akismet spambox page for WordPress admins. Download all spam at once, compress spam to make it more scanable and completely compresses obvious spam. Turns checking spam into a 10 minute per week activity.

How to Install

You need the Firefox web browser - Download and install
You need to install Greasemonkey - How-To
Install this script - How-To

What Does This Script Do?

See more information and screenshots here

With Akismet Auntie Spam I can view 16 to 18 spam comments per screen compared to 3 to 5 spam comments per screen without it. It greatly reduces the time and effort to check my akismet spam inbox for incorrectly marked spam.

Works with WordPress / WordPress Multi-user
eg: wordpress.com, edublogs.org, blogsome.com
Fetches all of your spam comments and display them on one page.
Sorts spammers by the amount of spam they have left.
Shows only the first line of spam, so less time is spent scrolling.
Completely hide obvious spam.
Checks for new version of script every two weeks.

Side-by-Side Comparison

Without it Akismet shows 3-6 comments per screen With it Akismet shows 17-20 comments per screen

With Akismet Auntie Spam you can go from 3-6 comments per screen of text to 17-20 comments per screen of text.

Like it? Link it!

I'm glad you find it useful. I get too much spam and Akismet is a no man's land without this. Show your appreciation by linking to this page: http://InternetDuctTape.com/tools/wordpress/akismet-auntie-spam/

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Apr 10, 2008 engtech Script's author	2008/04/09 v2.21 - WordPress.com works again

Apr 1, 2008 engtech Script's author	2008/04/01 version 2.20 - WordPress 2.5 support

Nov 18, 2007 engtech Script's author	2007/11/18 version 2.10 - Some people are reporting that WordPress 2.31 has a different URL for Akismet - IP addresses are displayed again

Nov 16, 2007 engtech Script's author	2007/11/15 version 2.09 - bug fix: vanilla WordPress and WordPress.com return spam results a little differently

Nov 16, 2007 engtech Script's author	2007/11/15 version 2.08 - bug fix: fixed a stupid debug statement that was breaking 2.07 - added menu option for switching between HTTP and HTTPS for accessing Auntie Spam

Nov 15, 2007 engtech Script's author	2007/11/15 version 2.07 - bug fix: improved slowness of displaying hidden comments - added menu option for checking for updates right now - added menu option for configuring how much spam to download at a time for modem users

Nov 15, 2007 engtech Script's author	2007/11/15 version 2.06 - optimized, optimized, optimized - only displays 5000 comments per page to avoid stressing slower computers - will work for any language (not just english anymore) - any additional slowness is because of a bug on the WordPress end that makes you download the same spam over and over again: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/ticket/722 - my home PC can download and display 5000 spam in 30 seconds

Oct 9, 2007 Pascal Van H... Scriptwright	The problem is line 220 if (allh2s[i].innerHTML == "Caught Spam") { If I change this to if (allh2s[i].innerHTML == "Spam tegen gehouden" \|\| allh2s[i].innerHTML == "Caught Spam" ) { // modif pvh added Dutch translation then all works fine again... I'm not sure how it can be made more generic. I assume the number of H2 tags in the source code varies and therefore you have to rely on the "equals Caught Spam" test? But maybe you could search for the first H2 that is in the div class = "wrap"?

Oct 9, 2007 Pascal Van H... Scriptwright	Hi, I have found the reason why it doesn't work - the script is language-dependent... So wordpress.com the problem is not specific for wordpress.com, it's for all non-English Wordpress interfaces...

Oct 9, 2007 Pascal Van H... Scriptwright	Hi, at this moment, the script doesn't seem to work at wordpress.com (anymore). I have excluded wordpress .com for the script by adding http://.wordpress.com/ to the excluded pages (for the time being)

Oct 5, 2007 engtech Script's author	2007/10/04 version 2.04 - Fixed (some) memory problems with v2.03 - Still slow, I need to get it working with a profiler, none of the hacks for Greasemonkey + Firebug seem to work New Firefox install - 38 mb - 211 mb after loading auntie spam v2.03 - 48 mb after loading auntie spam v2.04

Sep 17, 2007 engtech Script's author	2007/09/17 version 2.03 - Added FirebugUtils to prevent console.logs from breaking the script - Changed to work with the AdminSSL plugin. Thanks to Jan @ http://wp.dembowski.net/

Sep 12, 2007 engtech Script's author	2007/09/12 - Newest spam displays first - Akismet search doesn't function well with Auntie Spam, so use browser search instead (Ctrl+F) - Added logo branding

Aug 23, 2007 engtech Script's author	2007/08/23 - Rewrote from scratch using IP filtering idea from Donncha. - Will now fetch all of your spam comments and display them on one page. - Groups by the originating IP address. - Because it groups by IP address, the more spam you have, the more likely it is to correctly identify spam! - Sorted by the least number of spam comments to the most number of spam comments. - IP addresses with more than 5 comments are hidden (as the are likely spammers). - Can easily check the hidden text by moving your mouse over the parts that say [hidden] - Surprisingly much faster than the old version! (less code, too) - No longer has any confusing configuration options -- does the right thing all the time. - Automatically checks for script updates every two weeks.

Jul 31, 2007 engtech Script's author	2007/07/31 - Added not_spam_author_only regexp to make it easier to find stuff that is often incorrectly marked as spam. Edit the script to add your blog name. - Hovering over the "red" compressed text will show the full text and let you mark it as not-spam.