The spam daily generates high data traffic on the Internet that ends up affecting everyone, in one way or another we suffer the consequences and on hundreds of occasions we end up being victims of the mafias who see spam as a profit, which forces companies, system administrators and the users themselves to implement additional measures to combat it.
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Just take a look at the on spam traffic to realize that we are facing an increasingly serious problem for which we are all, in one way or another, indirectly responsible and which we must put an end to if we want to continue to maintain certain levels of permeability, for example, in our web sites based on wordpress.
This task is relatively simple to perform if we make use of the which allows us to block all those spam comments that could reach our blog through comment forms or other similar ones.
Akismet It comes by default built into WordPress when we install this CMS for the first time, so first of all the most important thing is to make sure that we are using the latest stable version of the plugin and the next and very important thing! and configure the plugin!.
The plugin comes unconfigured and it is the user who must generate the API key that allows the use and operation of Akismet.
To register with Akismet you must access its official website and click on the button “Get an API key for Akismet” (Get an Akismet API key):
Select the plan Personal ($0 – $120 / year) clicking on SING UP:
You must log into a WordPress.com account if you already had an account previously or create a new account associated with a WordPress.com Blog. Once this is done you will be able to authorize Akismet:
On the personal data screen we will find the API Key field and on the right the option “to reveal” (reveal) that clicking on it will allow us to see the Akismet API Key that we need to copy:
It should be said that the Akismet API Key will be useful for all those websites that we manage with WordPress since it is a unique key per user.
Next we access our WordPress installation to verify that the Akismet plugin is activated:
Later we activate the Akismet account:
As the key has already been generated and obtained previously, on the next screen we click on the option “I already have a key”:
Finally entered the Akismet API Key and Save the changes:
If everything has been done correctly we will see a screen similar to the following:
From the WordPress dashboard, Commentsyou can manage the comments of your Blog and indicate how “spam” those that you consider to be:
Clicking on Deskwe can see that Akismet tells us that it is blocking spam from reaching our website and that we already have a comment in the spam queue:
As you may have observed the activation of Akismet It is relatively simple and in a few minutes you can have important protection against SPAM that could affect the comments of the posts of your WordPress Blog.
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