Howto setup Akismet to fight Wordpress Spammers
In the last two days I got more than 30 comments from spammers. Thank you! This massive attack forced me to think about howto get rid of them. Btw: I still don’t see why they spent their time to sent spam comments - get a blog yourself, get some friends, get a life or get shot.
The first ressource was the Wordpress Codex on ‘Combat Comment Spam’.
Since I didn’t had much time, I thought I gave Akismet a try:
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. When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your blog it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down. With Akismet, you’re always protected up-to-the-second from the latest dirty tricks of spammers. There’s no maintenance, no upgrading, no hassle.
Unfortunately it’s not a one step-plugin installation procedure, since you need a Wordpress API Key in order to activate the plugin. You get this API Key, when setting up a free blog at wordpress.org but this is only possible when you use the Browser Flock.
Nice trick to force people to download Flock ahrg
Quick’n-Dirty howto activate Akismet and get a Wordpress API Key
- Download Flock
- Use Flock and open wordpress.com to get a free blog and a Wordpress API
- After you’ve received the password to your new blog, login and go to “Profile” to get your Wordpress API Key.
- Download the Plugin
- Install the Plugin to your real blog /wp-contents/plugins/
- Login into your blog as admin and activate the plugin.
- Copy&Paste the Wordpress API Key
- Askimet Spam-Plugin can be triggered in Wordpress Admin Panel under ‘Manage’ ‘Askimet Spam’
Further reading:
- Chad has written a more detailed howto and is also asking Want Akismet? Then download Flock. Huh?
- On Boakes you can read some more details about how Akismet is working.
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