Akismet

Download Akismet WordPress Plugin

You don't have to do anything to configure Akismet besides entering your API key, just activate and relax. However you do need at least WordPress version 2.0 or above for everything to work. The latest version of the plugin is 2.2.7.

Download Akismet

Steps to Install

  1. Download plugin and unzip.
  2. Upload the plugin file to your WordPress plugins directory inside of wp-content.
  3. Activate it from the plugins menu inside of WordPress.
  4. Enter your API key.
  5. Forget that spam was ever a problem.

Not on WordPress?

Akismet is available for over 20 other systems and platforms.

Personal Use

Just to re-iterate, if you don't fall under our pro-blogger or enterprise uses, Akismet is totally free for you to use on your blog.

Commercial API Keys

If you're going to be using Akismet in a way covered by our commercial use cases you need to get a commercial API key, which you can purchase using the easy links below.

Other Versions

You can get Akismet for other systems such as Movable Type and Blojsom on our development page.

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