Source evidence

Auto-delete spam immediately?

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection · support · 2026-05-25T09:38:00+00:00

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Francesco resolved

Love how accurate the plugin is. Just wondering if there’s a simple hidden setting to auto-delete spam comments instantly instead of letting them sit in the spam folder for days? Trying to keep my database completely clean. There’s no setting for that, but you can change the value with a filter, if that’s something you’re comfortable doing. It would look something like this: add_filter( 'akismet_delete_comment_interval', function ( $days ) { return 1; } ); This would reduce the maximum number of days a comment is left in spam to 1, which is the lowest number allowed by the Akismet plugin.

Commercial Context

Opportunity

trust and abuse-prevention operations

Spam abuse-prevention assurance for keeping sites trusted, protected, and recoverable

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams

Wedge: test spam lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts

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Analysis

heuristic-v1

Summary: Auto-delete spam immediately?: users show security, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence quote: Auto-delete spam immediately?

Affected feature: spam

security performance missing feature easy

Plugin

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Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection

6.0M active installs · 394.8M downloads · rating 94.0

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Christopher Finke 2026-05-29T21:11:00+00:00

There’s no setting for that, but you can change the value with a filter, if that’s something you’re comfortable doing. It would look something like this: add_filter( 'akismet_delete_comment_interval', function ( $days ) { return 1; } ); This would reduce the maximum number of days a comment is left in spam to 1, which is the lowest number allowed by the Akismet plugin.