User Guide

COMBATTING SPAM WITH AKISMET

Spam (unsolicited - and nearly always unwanted - communication via email, or

your blog comments) can ruin your website as you will find you spend all your

time marking the comments as trash or spam.

WordPress comes with a pre-installed plugin the detect and do a good job of

marking comments that are spam as just that. You can then choose to mark those

as not-spam if it happens to get it wrong. Normally, you will find it does a good

job of identifying only spam as spam.

The plugin is called Akismet. However, it is not activated by default,

you have to activate it.

Via the Plugins menu, choose Plugins (as shown to the right).

This will display all the plugins you have installed and whether

or not they are activated. Plugins are dealt with in a separate

chapter, so for now just go ahead and activate Akismet.

When you do, you will be reminded that you have to enter a key to enable

Akismet:

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