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• Started 5 years ago by maphew
• Latest reply from Trent Adams
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akismet says my API key is invalid, why?

1. • 
   • maphew
   • Member

   • Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi All,

   When I go to "bbpress dashboard > Content > Akismet Spam" I'm told "The API key you have specified is invalid. Please double check the $bb->akismet_key variable in your config.php file. If you don't have an API key yet, you can get one at WordPress.com."

   Which I've checked and double-checked. I'm positive I'm putting the same string in that I see when I login to http://wordpress.com/profile/
   When I check my wordpress blog, running on a different host and different domain from bbpress, the same key is there and wp reports the akismet plugin is working.

   Another post from 6 months ago said replacing single quotes with double quotes in config.php fixed the problem for them. Doesn't work for me though. http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/146?replies=4

   I'm running bbpress 0.8.1 on Sourceforge.net.

   Any ideas what's wrong?
   thanks!

   -matt
2. • 
   • Trent Adams
   • Moderator

   • Posted 5 years ago #

   What exactly do you have for syntax in config.php (replacing your number with 12345678) ?

   Trent
3. • 
   • drmike
   • Member

   • Posted 5 years ago #

   I think sourceforge.net blocks all outbound PHP calls.
4. • 
   • maphew
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   Trent:
   

   $bb->akismet_key = '12345678'; // Example: '0123456789ab'

   but I think drmike might be right.
5. • 
   • Trent Adams
   • Moderator

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   It sure looks that way doesn't it.

   Trent

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