Akismet uses WordPress.com user accounts for account management. To use Akismet you need to have a WordPress.com account.

Already have a WordPress.com account?

• As a proud member of the WordPress community since 2005 our service is integrated into top WordPress plugins such as Jetpack and Contact Form 7. If you’re a developer, implementing Akismet through our API couldn’t be easier. Help us make the web better We want to.
• Deploying Akismet in a contact form. The primary purpose of Akismet is to protect WordPress comment forms. To use Akismet to protect Contact Form 7, you need to give specific options to input fields. There are three Akismet-related options: akismet:author. You give this option to the field where submitters input their names.

Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. Major features in Akismet include: Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look.

Great! Go ahead and sign into Akismet with your WordPress.com account.

If you don’t remember your password for your WordPress.com user account, you can reset it using WordPress.com’s lost password form.

Don’t have a free WordPress.com account?

Akismet Wordpress Login

If you don’t have a WordPress.com account, it only takes a few seconds to sign up and is totally free! Simply click “Sign in with WordPress.com” on the Akismet.com homepage, click the “Create a new account” link.

Not sure if you have a WordPress.com account?

No problem! If you use VaultPress, Crowdsignal, Jetpack, IntenseDebate, or Gravatar, you can just sign in with the same account you use for those services.

You can always contact Akismet support if you’re not sure and we’ll be happy to help!

If you have more general questions about Akismet, please contact us here.

Akismet Wordpress Plugin Review

What is WordPress.com, and what does it have to do with Akismet?

WordPress.com is a hosted web service built on the popular open source blog and site creation tool available for free at WordPress.org. The service or product you’d like to use is one of the suite of products made by Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com.

To best serve our growing number of customers across the company, we’ve determined that a single user account management system is a necessary step toward getting seamless payment and functional integration across all of our tools.

I use WordPress to run a blog or website, how does this new system affect that?

It depends on whether you’re already a WordPress.com user or if you host your own site.

If you run your blog on WordPress.com or already have an account here, you won’t need a new account at all. Simply sign in with your existing WordPress.com account and we’ll redirect you back to the service of your choice as a logged in user.

NOTE: If you are already a user of Akismet or have installed Jetpack on your blog, you already have a WordPress.com account which you can use to sign in.

However, if you or your company downloaded and installed the free and open-source software available on WordPress.org, and you’ve never signed up for Jetpack or VaultPress or Akismet before, the new WordPress.com account you create won’t affect your self-hosted installation one bit

Why do I have to “approve” WordPress.com’s connection to Akismet?

This question has a complicated and technical answer, but for our purposes here, if you’ve ever used Facebook or Twitter to log into a service online, you’re doing the same kind of thing as we’re doing with WordPress.com and Automattic’s other services. As of right now, the only information WordPress.com shares to these services is your username, name, and email address.

Akismet Anti Spam Plugin

Does it cost anything or will I get any spam from creating this new account?

Akismet Wordpress Free

It costs nothing, and you’ll get no spam from us. You can read our fascinating terms of service to learn more.