Here's a heads up about what happens to your Akismet plugin once you install WordPress 3.3
First, ALL comments posted to my blogs were going into spam after I installed WordPress 3.3. Ergo, I wasn't getting email messages about comments being held in moderation. Thought no one was enjoying my latests posts until I found nearly 100 ‘good' comments in the Spam box.
Then the BBPress Forum on Affiliate Blogger PRO stopped working. I got a message from one of our members that they couldn't post to the forum. I checked and it seemed to work, so I asked him to try again and never heard anything back. I received an email about the same problem from another member this morning and discovered that new posts to the forum were automatically being deleted.
Suddenly something in my tiny cranium clicked that the problem must have something to do with Akismet.
Sure enough, when you install WordPress 3.3 and do the Akismet upgrade, things go awry.
The fix?
Easy enough. Go into the Akismet configuration panel on your WordPress blog and you'll discover that the API key is no longer there.
Once you re-enter and save it… all is well once more.
Comments, questions or suggestions? Please leave a comment below!
Cheers,
djbaxter says
Like Rick (above), I upgraded three blogs and Akismet with the Akismet API still intact and everything functioning as it should.
Rick says
Ros,
I’ve got several studiopress sites that I’ve updated over the past few weeks so was alarmed when I read your post. All have been upgraded to 3.3.1. but when I checked everything seems to be working fine and my Akismet api # was there.
May be something else going on with yours, make sure you haven’t gotten hacked.
Rick
Russ says
Thanks Ros.WP gets things going. Just a little fine tuning sometimes is all it takes.