How to Setup Wordpress Akismet Plugin

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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.

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Why Akismet is mandatory for site owners?

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

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1. monitors all comments and filters out

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

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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.
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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

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4. Show number of approved comments

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

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5. Check URLs

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

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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

• Login to your wordpress admin panel
• Mouse over to Plugins and then click on Add New
• On the Search Plugins box, type Akismet
  without the quote.

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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

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

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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

• After that, click on Activate plugin

You will see something like above image. But its
not over yet!
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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

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

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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.

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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

• So if you dont have an API key already, click on
  Get your API key button.

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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin
How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

• You will be redirected to wordpress akismet
  plugin homepage.

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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

• Now click on Get an Akismet API Key

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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

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

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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

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

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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

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

Please sign up here if you dont have
wordpress.com account. If you do have a
wordpress.com account then sign in
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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

• 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.

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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

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

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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

• Showing 36/year option though you have chosen
  the Basic edition?

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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

• Dont worry. Here is the trick. Drag the button
  to the very left and then you will get 0.00/year
  option!

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How to Set Up WordPress Akismet Plugin

• Now click on Continue button.

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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.

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

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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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