WordPress Akismet plugin is designed to protect your blog from commentary spam. If you think that your blog is only created, and spam does not threaten him, you are mistaken. Without akismet plugin, your blog can come to more than one thousand comments spam with a large number of links to other Internet resources. Akismet plugin is usually preinstalled by the blog created on CMS WordPress. Let’s start setting it up.
We go to the admin panel to the plug -in tab. In the Akismet plugin, press the tab to activate. The following will be written on the opened page — Akismet is almost turned on, to work with it, enter the API key. In order to get the key, we first bring the cursor to the Akismet link, which is just below the inscription, click on it with the right button and in the menu that opens, select the “Open in the New Window”, then the Plugin activation page opens, click on it on a large blue The button on which the Sign Up for Akismet is written. In the window opened, we mark the A Single Site and IS My For Personal Blog item. Next, click Continue button. Enter our data, the URL blog is not necessary. On the right side of the window you will see the sliders, in the inscription over it the question is how much you are ready to pay for using the Akismet plugin. We transfer the slider to the extreme left position. Under it should, the number 0 will appear. Next, click Continue. On the page that appears it will be written — that we have already done everything and the key is sent to us by email API.
Now you need to go to your mail, copy the Key API, and in the Akismet plugin activation window, in the admin. Panels, insert it into the corresponding field. Click the «Update settings» button. This is where the activation of the Akismet plugin is completed.