How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

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What is Akismet?

Akismet is most probably one of the best wordpress plugin that will take your pain out of managing comment spam.

Why Akismet is mandatory for site owners?

Akismet is absolutely mandatory for WordPress blog or website owners for the following reasons:

1. monitors all comments and filters out

Quickly monitors all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam.

2. Protecting your disk space and speed up your site.

Discard function that instantly hinders the worst spam, protecting your disk space and speed up your site.

3. Check every single comment

Each comment maintains a status history, for this reason you can simply see which comments were cleared or caught by

Akismet and which were unspammed or spammed by a moderator

4. Show number of approved comments

Blog/Website admin as well as moderators can see the number of approved comments for every single user.

5. Check URLs

check URLs that are presented in the body of the comment to reveal invisible or suspicious links.

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

Login to your wordpress admin panelMouse over to Plugins and then click on “Add New”

On the “Search Plugins” box, type “Akismet” without the quote.

You will see the WordPress Akismet plugin. Now click on “Install Now”

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

After that, click on “Activate plugin”

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

You will see something like above image. But it’s not over yet!

Now you need to click on “Settings”You will see a page like the following image:

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

You need to get your API key and manually enter that API key in the box and then hit the “Use this key” button.

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

So if you don’t have an API key already, click on “Get your API key” button.

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

You will be redirected to wordpress akismet plugin homepage.

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

Now click on “Get an Akismet API Key”

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

If you are already logged in to your “WordPress.com” account then you will see following image:

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

You need to click on “Approve” button the get your API key.

If you are not logged into your “WordPress.com” account, then you will see following image:

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

Please sign up here if you don’t have wordpress.com account. If you do have a wordpress.com account then sign in

After signing in, you will see several options for wordpress akismet plugin.

If you want to upgrade the plan of your wordpress akismet then you need to select either plus, backup or enterprise

option.

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

For the basic edition Click on “Get Started” button under the Basic package.

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

Showing $36/year option though you have chosen the “Basic” edition?

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

Don’t worry. Here is the trick. Drag the button to the very left and then you will get $0.00/year option!

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

Now click on “Continue” button.

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

You will get your wordpress akismet plugin API. Copy the API key and paste it in “Manually enter an API key” box and hit

“Use this key” button.

How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

Now all processes are complete. You have successfully activated “WordPress Akismet Plugin” on your site.

Video tutorial link

Here is the video tutorial link of this presentation! You can quickly watch this video tutorial to learn how to setup

wordpress akismet plugin.

https://youtu.be/rvYQzey9P30

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