Akismet on wordpress

[ConfusedPixie]

It tells me that it's found 26 spam comments. Fair enough, but I want to review them and it won't let me. They don't appear in my comments section either. Is it possible to review them?

It should be possible...

If you login to the admin controls, the dashboard should say something like: "Akismet has protected your site from x spam comments already. There's x comments in your spam queue right now." You should be able to click on the "x comments" - or, under comments, the headings are "all, pending, approved, spam, trash" and you should be able to click on those.

I've seen that, but when I go to that page it tells me that there are no spam comments, even though on the front page it tells me how many Akismet has supposedly protected me from (and when I click that it takes me to the stats page)

Ah - I suspect you have already emptied your spam folder. Askimet maintains a historic tally of all spam it has ever detected but it does not store copies of the actual spam, after the spam folder has been emptied.

But that's the thing, I've never done that manually which makes me worry that maybe normal comments if I ever have gotten them won't come through.

Easy enough to check, hun. What's your blog URL? I'll leave you a comment and you can verify if it comes through. ;)

unrealisedpotential.wordpress.com/

Thank you! If it works then I can stop being paranoid and start writing up the posts for the new blog, as I don't really want to start a new one if the system is dodgy for me for some reason

I've sent you a comment on your most recent post - "Money money money." As per the initials, I'm Fiona Campbell. I used a Wordpress account to comment and like.

Let me know if it shows up in your pending comments. :)

It's told me that you like it, but your comment is in the spam pile. It's the first that it's actually shown me though, the rest of the time it's told me that they've protected me from spam but hasn't let me see the comment.

Thank you!

(Love your penguin btw!)

You're welcome - and thanks! ;)

Sorry, it took me ages to write the answer.

1. "Akismet has protected your site from x spam", but nothing is in the spam box.

Akismet works this way (not sure how I know) if the spam is 100% spam - those sent automatically and reported from many sites - it doesn't reach your comment box at all. It's deleted straight forward. If it looks like that but but not reported yet, or didn't reach the cut off number, it will go to spam box. Comments with more then 1 link goes there as well. If the comment looks like spam but haven't been reported jet it will go to your moderation queue.

So ConfusedPixie you didn't empty your spambox. It was just the messages already known to Akismet as a spam.