OnMyWordPress; 4th – Akismet
This is probably one of the easiest post I will have during this series of “OnMyWordPress”….
Yes – I am also using Akismet on my WordPress server and does it even need any introduction…?
Well; it is almost the same as any well known virus scanner (as Norton, AVG, etc) you DO need on your computer; this is a plugin (or a similar one) you do need on your WordPress.
It fights spam (comments); it will scan all the comments and if it does not trust the comment – it will put it separate spamfolder in your comments part of your dashboard. Where you can delete it OR (if Akismet made a mistake) allow it to be a real comment.
Maybe a little disadvantage of this (REAL GREAT WORKING) spamfilter; you need to get an API key…. – but this is well explained at the homepage of Akismet.
From Akismet website;
We can’t stand spam.
Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.
Download; Akismet
Explanation API; overhere
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Series of OnMyWordPress;
Thanks for sharing – I am enjoying this series on WordPress. I am considering switching to Wordpress from my current blog hosting. Although, I may go with the hosted solution from WordPress instead of setting up a server and doing it myself. I am on dial-up and it would not run very well.
Thanx Mike for your kind comment.
I am also running my blog on an hosted server.
Running it from home would also mean a “24 hour computer/server on”…. little bit too much (in my opinion).
There are a lot of good hosts out there – some even specialized in WordPress.
For whatever reason akismet hasn’t been catching the spam as good as it use to. Daily I am having to go through my moderation and mark casinos comments as spam, bleh.
Of course, the writer of the plugin is a fairly well known blackhat marketer, so who knows… maybe they are the ones doing the spamming that goes through.