Explaining the Akismet add-on to prevent spam comments

The Akismet plugin is one of the most famous plugins for WordPress, as it is considered a tool to protect against spam and spam comments and is indispensable for any website. When you open your site, you will often find that the Akisme plugin is already installed. It comes bundled when you install WordPress, and you just have to activate it.

Why do I need Akismet on my site? If you have a new website, you will soon notice a large number of spam comments sent to your site by automated spam bots. As well as manually sent and unsolicited comments.

For example, if hackers create new user accounts on your site and add spam URLs to your site, this does not give credibility to your site, and may signal to Google that your site contains unsafe links. Therefore, you have to monitor and protect your site, and this is what Akismet does. It prevents these comments or spam from appearing on your site, or you can control and moderate these comments.

The beauty of Akismet is that it is a cloud-based application, as the large databases that are used to filter and find spam are located in the cloud. This means it will not affect your site's performance. Today it has become difficult to distinguish between desirable comments and unwanted comments and whether the comment is real or not.

This is what Akismet offers you, because it has intelligent algorithms to detect spam comments. What does Akismet do? Automatically check and filter comments that come to your site.

It contains records, so you can see the comments that the add-on has filtered. Detection of hidden or malicious links within comments. Moderators’ powers, so users can know the number of comments approved by them. Increase the speed of the site and improve its performance by stopping spam messages. Installing and activating Akismet To install and install the add-on, you must go to the WordPress control panel for your site and go to (Plugins > Installed Plugins) and then click on Settings 9- The next plan will open the add-on setup window for us, where we must choose this time (enter the API code manually). 10- A new window will open for us, in which we can put the API code.

11- Then you activate the appropriate options and save the changes. Thus, the add-on will be fully activated and configured. In the end, the Akismet add-on will help you reduce annoying and unwanted comments to a large extent, but it will not stop them completely, but you need to constantly follow up on the comments to keep the protection going on your site.