How to Stop SPAM on Your WordPress Blog Using the Akismet Spam Plugin
Step 6: Click the activation link in the email you received and it will confirm your registration and password. Click the login button to continue.
Step 7: Login to your account using the login form on the right.
Step 8: Click on My Account on the top menu bar.
Step 9: Set up your WordPress hosted blog by filling out the blog title field and selecting a language, then click on the Create Blog button.
Step 10: Click on My Account again on the confirmation screen.
Step 11: You can now see your API Key! Select the the API key code and hit Ctrl-C to copy it to clipboard. You should also receive an new email with your API key in it.
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10 thoughts on “How to Stop SPAM on Your WordPress Blog Using the Akismet Spam Plugin”
Thanks Dan! I really appreciate the tutorial!
lol. I didn’t know you would be inspired to write something JUST FOR ME!
Well you’re the 7th person to ask me since I installed the plugin last night and I got tired of re-explaining it each time lol!
Dan
The other night I had a look into the WP options and saw you could blacklist words.. so I blacklisted the word ‘poker’ for comments, because just the other week I got a HEAP of spam comments on photoshopstar and had to decline them manually.. anyway I dont think I’ll need to use this plugin ehe 🙂
I was getting about 100 Spam comments a day and only a tiny bit had the word poker in it, so I couldn’t add this all to my blacklist because I was upping my chance of blacklisting valid comments. The more you blacklist, the greater the chance you end up flagging legit feedback, and I wanted to avoid that as much as possible.
Dan
Ah but how high is the possibility of a good comment having the word ‘poker’ in it? That’s the only spam I was getting and the only word I blacklisted heh
thanks Dan, I turned off my comments due to spam but now I guess I can turn them back on =)
Hey Dan have you also played around with SpamKarma?
I really prefer it over Akismet, my blog had around 130 comments a day, since I’m using SpamKarma no spammers have came through… 😉
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Thanks man, i agree
Thanks Dan, really nice tutorial!