First of all, know that the next recipe also allows you to activate the Akismet plugin, which I'll show you how to set up here. Indeed, the next Recipe No. 12 will be about JetPack. But since I'll let you decide whether to enable JetPack or not, you can start with this recipe. I must warn you that it's a little more complicated to install this anti-spam tool on its own than with JetPack.
Recipe No.11: Learn to shoo away pests from your table so you don't have to eat Spam!
Description
First of all, know that the next recipe also lets you activate the Akismet plugin, and I'll give you that recipe here. Indeed, the next Recipe No. 12 will talk about Jetpack. But since I'll let you decide whether to activate Jetpack or not, you can start with this recipe. I must warn you that it's a little more complicated to install this anti-spam plugin on its own than via Jetpack.Instructions
- Install Akismet from the WordPress plugin store
- Create a plan on akismet.com by clicking the first "SIGN UP FOR AKISMET NOW" button on the homepage
- choose the Get Personal plan by clicking the first button again
- In the right column under Get Personal there's a small black slider that lets you choose the amount you can allocate to this plugin. If you have a budget, enter your card details. Otherwise slide the control to the left and when it reaches zero a CONTINUE button appears in the left column. Click it.
- You will access your API key (your secret code made of consecutive lowercase letters and numbers) which you copy and paste into the API Key field in your plugin settings in WordPress.
- I also recommend clicking the option "Automatically discard the worst and most pervasive spam so I never see it."
