Wordpress: Setting up Akismet

Table of contents for Effective Blogging

  1. Anatomy of an effective blog
  2. Does your blog or webpage have valid links?
  3. Let a Blog Reader save you time
  4. How to help Google find your blog (making SEO work for you)
  5. How to “see” your blog traffic and if your SEO is working
  6. How to find out what others are saying about your blog/products
  7. Wordpress: Setting up Akismet
  8. Another version of Google Alerts
  9. Tags, Categories, Trackbacks and your blog

Have spam on wordpress comments?

Akismet is a good way to keep the spam out. With recent wordpress installations, the Akismet plug-in is already there, it just needs to be activitated and given a key. So if you already have the plug-in, skip the downloading step.

  1. Download the plug-in: Akismet Download
  2. Upload the plugin file to your WordPress plugins directory inside of wp-content.
  3. Activate it from the plugins menu inside of WordPress.
  4. Get your API key
    1. Go to Wordpress.com
    2. If you use wordpress.com as your host, then you already are done with this step. If you host your own wordpress blog, register at wordpress.com and select “
    3. You will need to activitate your account and sign in to that account.
    4. Go to My Account | Global Dashboard, click on Profile tab and look for a key:
  5. On your own blog, Go Plugins | Akismet Configuration. Enter your key from the step above.
  6. It should now be configured and running.
  7. If you want to see what is being caught: Go to Manager | Akismet Spam and you can view the comments that are caught as Spam. You can mark any that accidently get put there. If there was mistake Akisment should “learn” from its mistakes.

Since we installed it, it has caught 1500 spam comments. That’s a lot of deleting manually if we didn’t have it.

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Posted on : Jun 25 2007
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Jun 25, 2007 - 02:06:56
Monique said:

GREAT! thanks so much for the help, i hada terrible time finding my key since my blog’s with .org not .com but finally clued into the fact that i had to register at .com too. thanks so much ladies!

Jul 1, 2007 - 07:07:05

I love Askimet. Totally does all the spam filtering/monitoring for me. I’ve had it installed for over a year, and it’s missed maybe 3? In those cases, I still have all comments set to hold until approved, so I can just define those as spam, and they’re whisked away. To date, Askimet has caught 6,296 spam for me. Talk about a time saver!

Jul 4, 2007 - 09:07:25
Connie said:

It is a great tool. We’d be inundated without it.

Jul 26, 2007 - 09:07:03

thanks for this — I just entered the fabulous and exciting world of WordPress for my new online store — what a COOOOOOOOOL blogging tool.

Jul 29, 2007 - 03:07:06
Connie said:

Thanks Christine! This is definitely a must have tool! We couldn’t live without it

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