Incorporating an Akismet Counter Into a WordPress Theme
Akismet is, by far, the most popular anti-spam plug-in for WordPress. (It comes bundled with the download, so that gets it market share. But, it’s also very, very good.) It comes with a counter that can be put into a WordPress theme. It’s attractive, but its light blue color may not integrate well into a given theme.
I went digging around in the source code, and found the line that actually pulls the count from the database. Using this parameter, I was able to integrate a spam count into the sidebar that has a look consistent with the rest of the site.
Here’s the code that’s in use on the theme on this site.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | <li id="spamstats"> <h2><?php _e('Akismet-Eaten Spam:'); ?></h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://akismet.com"><?php echo(number_format(get_option("akismet_spam_count"))); ?> and counting...</a></li> </ul> </li> |
Of course, line 5 is the important one – that’s how to get the number, formatted for whatever locale the server is set up for. (On my personal blog, the number is up over 1,400!)
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March 17, 2010 at 4:07 pm
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Laura Brisbane said,
May 24, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Cool, thanks for that! Is there any way to not have the spam count shown on the page though?