Akismet WordPress Plugin
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet Web service to see if they look like spam or not.
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet Web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog's "Comments" admin screen.
Major features in Akismet include:
- Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam.
- Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator.
- URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links.
- Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user.
- A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site.
PS: You'll need an Akismet.com API key to use it. Keys are free for perso
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Sites running Akismet, click to open one
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Usage of Akismet over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 12 275 to 15 238 — up 2 963 (+24.1%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 15 238 | +150 |
| June 2024 | 15 088 | +498 |
| May 2024 | 14 590 | +335 |
| April 2024 | 14 255 | +426 |
| March 2024 | 13 829 | -14 |
| February 2024 | 13 843 | +215 |
| January 2024 | 13 628 | -156 |
| December 2023 | 13 784 | +851 |
| November 2023 | 12 933 | +313 |
| October 2023 | 12 620 | +97 |
| September 2023 | 12 523 | +188 |
| August 2023 | 12 335 | -18 |
| July 2023 | 12 353 | +78 |
| June 2023 | 12 275 | — |
Themes used with Akismet
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Twentytwelve |
| 3 | Twentyfourteen |
| 4 | Twentythirteen |
| 5 | Twentyeleven |
| 6 | Divi |
| 7 | Twentyten |
| 8 | Twentyfifteen |
| 9 | Avada |
| 10 | Ipinpro |
| 11 | Twentysixteen |
| 12 | Canvas |
| 13 | X |
| 14 | Generatepress |
| 15 | Responsive |
| 16 | Hueman |
| 17 | Avada-child-theme |
| 18 | Dt-the7 |
| 19 | Themestyler-twentyten |
| 20 | Vantage |
Sites running Akismet
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