Akismet v2.0.2 “Link on Dashboard” Workaround

May 14th, 2007

With the latest Akismet update which fixed some security vulnerabilities they included a new bug: The Akismet link on the Wordpress Dashboard doesnt work any more..

Here’s a workaround for this issue:

Search in your “akismet.php” for clean_url("$link?page=akismet-admin") and replace it with
"$link?page=akismet-admin" , now everything should work fine - crazy, isn’t it? Goodnight Folks

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5 Responses to “Akismet v2.0.2 “Link on Dashboard” Workaround”:

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