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⇱ Christopher Finke (@cfinke) – WordPress user profile | WordPress.org

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Bio

I am an engineer at Automattic working on Akismet. I like to code.

Badges

Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
Documentation Contributor '17
bbPress Contributor '20

Current Job

Director of Keyword Blacklists
Present
Automattic

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days
1contribution
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medium1
score1
Last 90 days
8contributions
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medium8
score8
Last 12 months
13contributions
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WordPress releases

Contributed to 13 releases
  • 6.7
  • 6.1
  • 5.7
  • 5.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.4
  • 4.2
  • 4.1
  • 4.0
  • 3.9
  • 3.6
  • 3.5
  • 3.2

Contributions

Type
June 2026
Jun 01 Mon · 16:26
Forums med
Posted a reply to Automatic deletion of old spam folder?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Akismet automatically deletes spam comments once they’re 15 days old.
May 2026
May 29 Fri · 21:11
Forums med
Posted a reply to Auto-delete spam immediately?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There's no setting for that, but you can change the value with a filter, if…
May 21 Thu · 15:57
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Posted a reply to Whitelist specific email addresses?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Not technically, but if you mark the comments as "not spam", that will teach Akismet…
May 18 Mon · 20:14
Forums med
Posted a reply to Does spam folder auto-clear after some time?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Akismet should auto-delete comments from the spam folder after 15 days. If that's not happening,…
May 15 Fri · 15:58
Forums med
Posted a reply to Spam folder auto-delete time?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Akismet deletes spam comments once they're 15 days old.
May 13 Wed · 16:29
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Posted a reply to Regular reader’s comments keep getting flagged as spam, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you email us at support@akismet.com with your site URL and the reader's username or…
May 11 Mon · 15:46
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Posted a reply to Auto-delete spam folder?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Akismet automatically deletes spam older than 15 days.
May 07 Thu · 15:05
Forums med
Posted a reply to Question about the spam statistics delay, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Stats update about once per day, so you should see them change soon.
March 2026
Mar 11 Wed · 01:14
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Posted a reply to ActivyPub comments flagged as spam when they should not be, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi John, What site is this happening on? If you're not comfortable posting the URL…
October 2025
Oct 20 Mon · 19:26
Forums med
Posted a reply to Way to hide the API key on our sites?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Closing due to lack of response. @damonmaldonado, if you still need help with this, let…
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Developer

7 plugins

Contributor

2 plugins