• Akismet Comment Spam Killer

  Filed under Building a Blog
  Feb 22

  

  As recommended by John Chow, this is one of the things you must install/activate. It wasn’t that hard to do and instructions are below. What is Akismet? Akismet helps to kill spamming on your blog.

  On several websites, I have “Contact Us” forms. These forms are always sending emails stating things like, “This site is great”, “Thanks for the site”, etc. I’m guessing all of these spam emails come from software that can search a site and fill in a form automatically. So, if Akismet can prevent this same type of activity on my blog, I’m all for it. Would be nice to have it for regular website forms. If anyone knows of any solutions for regular website forms, feel free to let me know.

  Anyway, to install it:
  1. Log into the admin
  2. Click on the top navigation called “Plugins”
  3. Click on the “Activate” link in the row titled “Akismet”. Mine is listed in green to show it has been activated.
  4. To complete the activation, you must have a WordPress API key. If you don’t have the key, don’t worry about it. There are instructions that will help guide you to get an API key. It really encompasses registering at http://www.wordpress.com.

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