Akismet Toturial 2023 | Setup & Manage Spam Comments!
Akismet is still today the best way to fight comment spam. In this video we'll set it up and I show you how to train Akismet on your WordPress website. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Start here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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⏱️Timestamps⏱️
0:00 Intro
0:14 Install Akismet
0:49 Register with Akismet
1:38 Get free Akismet API key
2:00 Change the settings
2:24 Marking comments as spam
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📖Transscript📖
In this video we'll be stopping spam comments using Akismet. It's free and it works excellent. Let's start right now.
Log into your WordPress website. If you're still logged in using /wp-admin/... that's not a very safe way, so please watch my tutorial about WordPress security. Because you don't want to get hacked.
When you're logged in, you go to 'Plugins' over there. And you go to 'Add new'. And here we see directly what we need. Akismet Spam Protection. "The best anti-spam protection". Well that's actually not exaggerated, it is the best. Let's press 'Install now' over there, and now we press 'Activate' to kill all that spam. The first thing we do is we need to set up our account, so we're gonna click on this button. Then you will be redirected to the Akismet website. Now if you have a personal website, Akismet is completely free. If you however have a commercial website or blog, you need to get this one. So let's click on 'Get personal' right now. We fill in our email address, and we can change this bar to make it completely free, for a non-commercial license. Fill in your first name and your last name, and use it on the site we want to install it. I don't have ads, I don't sell any products, and I don't promote a business. Press 'Continue with personal subscription' over here. Then we have a email in our email box. So we're gonna copy this code, copy it. And then we paste it in over there, and we press 'Continue'. Now we go back to our email again. And there we have this. Your API key. We're gonna copy it again. Then you go back to WordPress, it's in another tab. And then we go to 'Manually enter an API key' over here. And then we're gonna paste it in, and we press 'Connect with API key'. Well done now it works! If you scroll down on your settings, the only interesting thing to change over here is the strictness. Do you want Akismet to silently discard the worst and most pervasive spam, or do you want everything to put spam in a spam folder for review. It's totally up to you, if you're afraid you will miss some nice comments then use this setting, if you really don't care press on silently discards the worst spam. And press 'Save changes; . So when you now go to your comments over there or over here, Akismet will mark the reactions that it think it is spam, and it does a very good job. As we can see over here is that the pills and the pills and the Paw Patrol and the Johny SEO, all these things are marked as potentially spam. Now what can you do over here, you can just approve it, or you can spam it, or trash it. If you press this button check for spam it will do it automatically. So let's say uh paw patrol.com is... I don't know.... what is this man? Just press approve then this one is approved on your website, and now it's been shown to your other visitors. You can also do this button 'Check for spam'. "Checked three comments, no comments were caught as spam". Well. Now we can train Akismet a little bit, so what we can do? We can put this one into the spam folder. Just click it. Now it has been marked as spam and also been sent out to a Akismet so it can learn about spam. This is also flagged, so we're gonna spam it and this one also, spam it. Great. Now you can see over here at spam you will see all the things that has been put in a spam folder....
Completely spam free...
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Hey guys, I hope you get your website all spam comment free with this short Akismet tutorial. I use it on a lot of client websites and it works great. If you have any questions, just drop them down here and I'll be glad to answer them. Have a great day! 😊
Hi Matt, its my first working day and I have to setup a new homepage. So this video helps me a lot. Thanks!
Hi Carsten, thanks for your comment. I'm glad I could help you out with this tutorial! Have a great day and take 😀
Hello Matt, great and helpful content sir. Of course we need the tutorial for using Akismet alongside Contact 7! That's what brought me here.🤣
Hi there! Yeah that’s a logical next step right 😀 Glad you liked it! Have a great day and take care!
I love your useful tutorial that are nicely spiced with a dash of humour. Thank you!
Hi Marina! Thanks for your kind words, I really appreciate that! You also have a great channel, keep it up 😀👍🏻 Have a great day and stay healthy and vegan💪🏻
Gracias!
De nada. Me alegro de haberte ayudado con este vídeo. ¡Que tengas un buen día!
Thank You Matt
Hi Mauro! You are very welcome, I'm glad you liked this video also.
This is the clearest video about Akismet I've seen. I have a similar question as someone already asked below. I put Amazon affiliate links into my blog posts. Would I want to get a paid version? Otherwise, not running ads.
Hi Violinna! Thanks for the question, great channel you got! Already 152 video's in 3 years... well done! Keep it up and you will grow! Well if you look strictly (I am no lawyer, just my opinion), if you earn money with the website, then yes you should get a paid license. If you cannot afford it because there is no (not much) money coming in via the website then I would say that a free license is good. Its more of a ethical question than that you are getting sued or anything. If you using it and they are caching a lot of spam (so it works and makes you happy) and you earn money with the website, then why not. But I won't say a thing if you don't 🤫
@@WPressDoctor thanks so much for a quick response! Yes, I was kind of thinking the same, and so for ethical reasons AND to be safe, have been postponing activating Akismet. But the spam comments (which I review/delete before any of them are public) have been out of control. So maybe it's time to use it. Thank you again.
Yes than it’s time to start using it 👍🏻😀
Thanks for pointing me to this video Matt! Can I ask, Do you use Akismet on your website? If you have an affiliate website or a regular website with Google Ads, does that mean you have to Pay for Akismet?
Hi James, you are very welcome, I’m glad I could help you out 👍🏻😀 I only use it on blog sites with a lot of comments coming in. If you use a affiliate website, yeah it would be appropriate to have a paid version. 👍🏻
@@WPressDoctor Thanks Matt, I appreciate that 😊
Hi Matt. What I'm looking for is a way to add a checkbox along the lines of, "By clicking here you agree to this website storing your data as per out privacy policy", and a link to your website's privacy policy. This is for the comments area. I have found a plugin for this but it hasn't been updated for 8 months. Do you know a way this can be done?
Hi again! Yeah you can just add a ‘consent’ with your contact form plugin. Which one are you using?
@@WPressDoctor Hi Matt. I'm using the WP Comment Policy Checkbox plugin. I'm using WPForms Lite for my contact page. I didn't know you could add a consent form for comments using a contact form plugin. If that's right, I'll have a look. Thanks a lot.
Yeah it’s possible but depends on the form plugin you are using. I always use Gravity Forms and they have it build in as a separate option.
@@WPressDoctor Oh really!! That's just what I need then. Thanks a lot.
Ur welcome!
Hey Matt, Akismet offers checkboxes like I don't have ads on my site, I don't sell products on my site, but in future i will run adds on my site may b selling products then what should i do now? Either i should check the box or to leave it?
Hi Mirza Abuzar, thanks for the question. Just tick the boxes for your situation right now. If it changes, than it changes, if not, just keep it this way!
How do you go about using Askitmet on your clients sites? $600 per year for unlimited sites seems a little over priced to me. Do you pay for the unlimited license yourself, or do you have each client pay for the individual yearly license themselves (assuming these clients are commercial)?
Hi there! Thanks for the question. I usually don’t use Akismet on my client websites, because like you say, it has to be a very high traffic website for that ti be worth it.
@@WPressDoctor Agreed. A lot of my clients don't need comments on their blogs, and for e-commerce I generally use verified purchase settings for product reviews so this blocks spam anyways.
Here you go! So don’t bother then 👍🏻😀
Yes would be nice with forms 7 and akismet
Thank you for your vote! I will be adding this to the list 👍🏻😀
Plz 🙏make a video on WordPress woocomerce site can't be hacked & plz suggest me a better hosting provider I already purchase Bluehost Hostinger Kinsta Siteground Please suggest me most powerful hosting provider Thanks ❤🌹 keep it up
Hi Sare, it’s already here: kzhead.info/sun/hqmoY8p5omRsq6M/bejne.html the most powerful hosting? GoGeek via SiteGround is in Google Cloud and is very very powerful 😀👍🏻