WordPress bundle Akismet Spam Protection

earlier in this course I mentioned that you shouldn’t use captchas because they’re bad for the user experience and that’s certainly true but sometimes you might have bought that at your site and fill out your contact form trying to convince you to buy something and that can be really annoying so if you have any amount of spam getting through it might be worth looking into a few anti-spam Solutions

one of those is called the Kismet and it’s designed specifically for WordPress you’ve likely seen this before it’s one of the two default plugins when you install WordPress primarily it’s used for comment spam but it also integrates with the jetpack contact form so let’s go to our site and set this up

go to my site

and Hunter plugins you’ll likely see a Kismet already installed if you don’t you can add it by searching for a Kismet I’ll click activate

which turns it on and once you do you should see a button encouraging you to connect to the free service

I’ll click setup your Kismet accounts

you could manually sign up with an email address and get an API key which is a ton of work or since we already installed and configure jetpack we can connect by the service what does click the button

I’ll click save changes since the settings look about right

and that’s it a Kismet is set up and working on your site a Kinsman twerks aggregating data across the web and identifying potential spammers once an IP addresses identified they will block future spamming attempts

what’s so great about this solution is it doesn’t make it harder for users to fill out a form they fill it out per usual and a Kismet uses big data to fight the spammers and you should get very little spam in your inbox I use the service on my personal site and it’s very reliable just a few clicks and you should have cut your spam down by 90%

your first step is to log into your website which would be your website URL for wp-admin once in your going to locate where it says plugins on your left toolbar when you hover over it you’ll see add new and you’ll click on add new now once you click on add new you will be taken to the screen and you’ll type in the search right here these words

once you do that click enter it will bring up that

spam protection you’ll click install now

Daniel click activate

then we’ll bring it to this if you have jetpack you’ll see the that if not you may see something just that says manually enter an API key so that’s what we’re going to do to run a quick on manually enter now we have to get the API key so we’re going to come over here to their website right here is the URL and we are going to just do the basic plus it is either 833 * 12 if you buy it by the year or it’s $10 a month so do whichever is best for you and you’ll see that you get the Spam protection right there and you get one website and some support and API calls right so get quick on this once you click on it you’ll be taking over to this and you’ll go ahead and check out you’ll see that you can pay monthly $10 or pay by the year for $100 once you fill all of that out you will be taken to sign up complete now here are the instructions on how to do it all but I am going to show you

you in this video what I want to draw your attention to his number to it says manually enter an API key so that is going to be found in your email still from here you’ll go over to your email and you will see an email from this company that the subject says your API key once you connect the API key it will bring you to this page here and you can read through these and see what is the best fit for you so comment show the number of approved comments beside each comment author strictness silently discard the worst and most pervasive spam so I never see it I am definitely doing that privacy display a privacy notice under your comment forms so you can choose to do that or not do it then we will save changes