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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."
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.
Copy that API key and paste in your Akismet API
Key field. Click on Update.
Now you have got your Akismet plugin successfully
verified.
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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