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How to activate you Askimet Key for WordPress
An anti spam tool/plugin
Akismet is one of the plugins that every
wordpress blogger use. Aksimet is free, regularly updated, comes inbuilt with Wordpress set up file
and works like a charm. Once installed, Akismet keeps a close look on
all comments made on your blog and if it suspects anything suspicious, it marks them as spam and send to the spam folder. But many new users get confused when
they try to activate Akismet and it asks
for a API key to get activated. Don’t worry,
API key for Akismet plugin comes for free and
it takes just a minute to generate your unique Wordpress API key.
Remember that unless and until you get a wordpress API
key, Akismet spam feature won’t work on your blog. However
you can generate one Akismet key and use that on all your blogs to
activate Akismet.
How to Activate Akismet
- Navigate to Wordpress and sign up for a free
account.
- When asked, select the second option – “Just a username, please.“
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- After successful registration, Wordpress will send a verification email to your email.
Remember to provide actual email address.
- Open that email and scroll down to find Wordpress.com API key. It looks
like the below screenshot.
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- Copy that API key and paste in your Akismet API Key
field. Click on Update.
- Now you have got your Akismet plugin successfully
verified.
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- You are done.
Remember to keep that email safe. You might need that API key to verify
Akismet on other Wordpress blogs as well. YouTube will
also ask you for your API Key.
Thanks to Hacktrix
for this lovely tutorial.
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