You want to make sure that you block spam on any of your comments on your site.
And hopefully as you grow your Web site you're going to be getting a lot of comments on your blog posts
from visitors and fans.
But I heard a stat recently that said 85 percent of all comments on web sites are spam comments.
So don't protect your blog from spam I suggest using acq has met Asmat is created by the founder of
Wordpress dot com.
It's a very legitimate option for blocking spam in it and it works together with all kinds of comment
systems and contact forms which I'm going to be talking about in the next couple of lessons.
I already had X-Men installed but I have to activate it.
But if you don't have it installed go ahead and install it like we have done in the past couple of lessons.
Then click this big activation button up here in the top or go under jet pack to X-Men.
You're going to have to get your own API key which is basically just verifying that you can use this
plug in.
So click this get your API key button then click and ask is meant API key.
There is a basic option where you can basically donate if you want or just get it for free or there
is a premium option that supports bigger web sites and has advanced stats and priority support and you
can pay $5 per month.
Click the get basic to just get started for free.
Slide down the slider to zero and click continue unless you want to donate.
It's going to tell you which Web site it thinks you're adding it to and if this is right just click
activate this site and this is a part of your Wordpress dotcom account.
And we actually created your Wordpress dot com account when we activated the jetpack plug in earlier.
If not it will probably ask you to create your Wordpress account.
It's already plugged in the API key and it's already activated.
The app is meant plug ins and you're free to go about and it's going to automatically start blocking
spam.
There are two options though for the strictness.
One is that it will automatically discard the worst and most pervasive spam so you don't even have to
check it.
The other is that comments that are deemed spam will be put in a spam folder for you to review.
Depending on how big your site is you might want to just have it put in a spam review folder so that
you can use it yourself.
There has been a few times where a comment that was not technically spam was put in the spam folder.
But as your site grows and you get more and more comments you might want to automatically do it for
you by checking this box right there and then clicking save changes.
You can see spam that has been blocked.
If you go to your dashboard go down to your site stats which is Wordpress is sort of site stats that
shows how many people have visited your page.
It's not as good as Google Analytics but down here it does say the number of spam comments that have
been blocked by acq Asmat and like we did earlier we can rearrange these windows if we want.
We can also turn them on and off by clicking down the screen options checking on an off.
Any things that we want or don't want on our home page.
Thanks for watching and the next lessons we'll be looking at different commenting and contact form plug
ins.