Webcraft.tools Website Review

Akismet, by Automattic, is a plugin that will protect a WordPress site from spam comments. Manually filtering spam from your site is ridicu*ously tedious and time consuming. Time better spent working on growing your business. So why do it? Akismet will constantly scan for spam for you! Akismet actually learns as it goes, gathering information on the spam it The way it works is whenever someone posts a comment to a website running Akismet, Akismet checks the post against other posts in the database. If it is determined to be spam, it is deleted. Any spam that manages to get through Akismet can be marked as spam by the user, which will be added to the Akismet spam database, so future posts will be treated as spam and deleted. To date, Akismet boasts filtering 7.5 Akismet is included by default in all WordPress builds since version 2.0. To use Akismet, in the dashboard of your WordPress site, go to the Plugins menu. If you see Akismet listed, make sure it is activated. If it is not listed, go to “Add New” and search for it to install and activate. Activating the plugin alone does not do anything however, but it will ask you for an API Key. To get the API Key, go to the Akismet website and you will see a “Say Goodbye to Comment Spam” bu*ton that you can click on. That will take you to the pricing page. The Basic plan is for personal sites and blogs. You can “name your price” to obtain the API Key. $0 (free) is an acceptable price, but if you can afford it, it is a tool worth paying for and supporting. The Plus plan is for commercial and professional sites, and requires a monthly subscription, currently set at $5 USD. A premium subscription can be had for $9 USD, which provides daily backups and unlimited backup storage as well as priority support. Click on the bu*ton under the plan you wish to On the next page you will see a link to click if you have a WordPress account, or you can fill out the form if you do not have one. Clicking on the “Signup” bu*ton will take you to a payment page.