My comments are not working at the moment. I am trying to get the comment spam plug-ins working, but something is wrong. It's making use of the Akismet service, but gets a time-out when it tries to verify my key.

For reference, here are the steps I have taken so far to make comments work:

• Copied the comments.py plus the akismet and check-javascript files to my plug-ins directory
• Added comments, akismetcomments and check_javascript to my config.py plugins list. The latter 2 were not there before today
• Registered at Wordpress to get an API key and included that in my config.py
• Copied comments.js to my web directory. Although the comments said it could be in with the plugins that didn't work
• Updated my story template to include the comment count
• Set permissions to allow apache to write to the comments directory

I'm making enquiries on the mailing list and may also try the IRC channel.