Akismet is a spam filtering plugin that aims to pick up blog comments spams and trackback spams. The Akismet filter rely on information collected on spams captured from blogs using the Akismet plugin.  The Akismet plugin is a default WordPress plugin.

Below are the steps to activate your Akismet Plugin:

Step 1: In your WordPress plugin folder, click the “Activate” button

Step 2: Sign up for a WordPress.com blog here in order to get your WordPress.com API key.

Step 3: Log into your WordPress.com blog. Go to your Dashboard and click “Users” / “YourProfile”. The top left hand corner of the screen will display your API Key as follows: “Your WordPress.com API key is: xxxxxxxxxxxx”. Copy the API key.

Step 4: Toggle back to your Plugin folder and insert the API Key.

This should complete the activation of your Akismet plugin.

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