To activate Akismet, go to your WordPress personal settings and click the link to Akismet. Sign in with your WordPress account to authorize Akismet, then choose a payment option. Once payment goes through, copy the API key from the confirmation email and paste it into the Akismet settings on your WordPress plugins page to activate spam protection.

1. How to activate Akismet
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2. In your WordPress.com
blog or account, go to
‘Users’ and select
‘Personal Settings’.

3. At the top of ‘Personal
Settings’ you’ll find a
direct link to Akismet.

4. Click on the ‘Get an
Akismet API Key’ button.

5. Click on the ‘I already
have a WordPress.com
account!’ link (if you do
have one).

6. Sign in with your
username and password.

7. Authorize Akismet with
your WordPress.com
account.

8. Choose the
Personal option.

9. Select how much
you want to pay,
and then fill in
your bank details.

10. Once your payment
transaction has gone
through, check your
email for one from
Akismet. It will contain
your Akismet API key.

11. Copy your Akismet API
key and go to your
Plugins > Installed
Plugins page.
Activate Akismet
(which is automatically
uploaded for you by
WordPress) and click
on ‘Settings’.

12. Here is where you
paste in your Akismet
API key and then click
on the ‘Update
options’ button.

13. Now Akismet is activated it
will start protecting you
from spam immediately.