{"id":58127,"date":"2025-10-23T03:01:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=58127"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:05:00","slug":"wordpress-akismet-antispam-plugin-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wordpress-akismet-antispam-plugin-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Akismet Antispam Plugin Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/akismet_after_before_after.gif\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"WordPress Akismet Antispam Plugin Primer Tutorial\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/akismet_after_before_after.gif\" title=\"WordPress Akismet Antispam Plugin Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"   \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">WordPress Akismet Antispam Plugin Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As we alluded to when we presented <a target=\"_blank\" title='WordPress Upgrade Primer Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wordpress-upgrade-primer-tutorial' rel=\"noopener\">WordPress Upgrade Primer Tutorial<\/a>, we use a great <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"WordPress\" href='https:\/\/wordpress.org' rel=\"noopener\">WordPress<\/a> plugin called <a target=\"_blank\" title='Akismet antispam WordPress plugin' href='https:\/\/akismet.com' rel=\"noopener\">Akismet<\/a> to &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>identify comment spam &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>place the detected spam into a Spam &#8220;folder&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; and, as of recently, we&#8217;re going to see how we go, checking the Akismet plugin checkbox that reads &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSilently discard the worst and most pervasive spam so I never see it\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8230; to, hopefully, lessen the &#8220;moderation load&#8221; at our end with the WordPress blog you are currently reading.  We&#8217;ll see?!<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d58127' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d58127\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/plugin\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d58127' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we alluded to when we presented WordPress Upgrade Primer Tutorial, we use a great WordPress plugin called Akismet to &#8230; identify comment spam &#8230; place the detected spam into a Spam &#8220;folder&#8221; &#8230; and, as of recently, we&#8217;re going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wordpress-akismet-antispam-plugin-primer-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37],"tags":[1501,4218,151,216,4173,4197,2122,827,932,956,3125,1319,1456],"class_list":["post-58127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-tutorials","tag-akismet","tag-antispam","tag-blog","tag-cms","tag-comments","tag-maintenance","tag-moderation","tag-mysql","tag-php","tag-plugin","tag-spam","tag-tutorial","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64265,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58127\/revisions\/64265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}