bbPress can use Akismet service to check topics and replies for spam, and there is no option available to control this integration, and if you use Akismet, you will be forced to use it for bbPress content too.
The only way to disable Akismet integration is to disable bbPress Akismet extend library from loading.
Code to disable Akismet integation
add_action('init', 'bbhelp_club_disable_akismet_integration');
function bbhelp_club_disable_akismet_integration() {
remove_action('bbp_ready', 'bbp_setup_akismet', 2);
}
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ripul says:
Akismet is a terrible terrible plugin. I have a 1 .5 GB database with posts table of 350mb. The akismet has created 900mb of data in postmeta table. This post helped me.
bbPress requires theme templates to display the forums content. Currently, bbPress needs total of 16 theme templates for all content types and taxonomies.
To display the content for forums, bbPress relies on the theme templates. But, these are specialized template, and most themes don’t have them. So, how the bbPress uses templates?
There are many ways to modify the way the bbPress forums look like, styling changes, filters and actions and overriding the templates bbPress uses to render all the forums elements.
Akismet is a terrible terrible plugin. I have a 1 .5 GB database with posts table of 350mb. The akismet has created 900mb of data in postmeta table. This post helped me.