WEBVTT 00:00.210 --> 00:05.350 You want to make sure that you block spam on any of your comments on your site. 00:05.370 --> 00:10.050 And hopefully as you grow your Web site you're going to be getting a lot of comments on your blog posts 00:10.110 --> 00:12.090 from visitors and fans. 00:12.090 --> 00:19.080 But I heard a stat recently that said 85 percent of all comments on web sites are spam comments. 00:19.260 --> 00:25.440 So don't protect your blog from spam I suggest using acq has met Asmat is created by the founder of 00:25.440 --> 00:26.760 Wordpress dot com. 00:26.760 --> 00:32.740 It's a very legitimate option for blocking spam in it and it works together with all kinds of comment 00:32.740 --> 00:37.710 systems and contact forms which I'm going to be talking about in the next couple of lessons. 00:37.710 --> 00:41.090 I already had X-Men installed but I have to activate it. 00:41.100 --> 00:45.970 But if you don't have it installed go ahead and install it like we have done in the past couple of lessons. 00:45.990 --> 00:52.590 Then click this big activation button up here in the top or go under jet pack to X-Men. 00:52.740 --> 00:58.590 You're going to have to get your own API key which is basically just verifying that you can use this 00:58.590 --> 00:59.330 plug in. 00:59.340 --> 01:06.860 So click this get your API key button then click and ask is meant API key. 01:06.970 --> 01:13.220 There is a basic option where you can basically donate if you want or just get it for free or there 01:13.230 --> 01:20.450 is a premium option that supports bigger web sites and has advanced stats and priority support and you 01:20.450 --> 01:22.050 can pay $5 per month. 01:22.160 --> 01:25.390 Click the get basic to just get started for free. 01:25.460 --> 01:32.310 Slide down the slider to zero and click continue unless you want to donate. 01:32.370 --> 01:36.630 It's going to tell you which Web site it thinks you're adding it to and if this is right just click 01:36.720 --> 01:40.620 activate this site and this is a part of your Wordpress dotcom account. 01:40.650 --> 01:46.820 And we actually created your Wordpress dot com account when we activated the jetpack plug in earlier. 01:46.830 --> 01:50.270 If not it will probably ask you to create your Wordpress account. 01:50.310 --> 01:54.750 It's already plugged in the API key and it's already activated. 01:54.750 --> 02:00.240 The app is meant plug ins and you're free to go about and it's going to automatically start blocking 02:00.240 --> 02:00.740 spam. 02:00.780 --> 02:03.420 There are two options though for the strictness. 02:03.420 --> 02:09.090 One is that it will automatically discard the worst and most pervasive spam so you don't even have to 02:09.090 --> 02:09.600 check it. 02:09.600 --> 02:15.320 The other is that comments that are deemed spam will be put in a spam folder for you to review. 02:15.330 --> 02:20.970 Depending on how big your site is you might want to just have it put in a spam review folder so that 02:20.970 --> 02:22.110 you can use it yourself. 02:22.110 --> 02:28.280 There has been a few times where a comment that was not technically spam was put in the spam folder. 02:28.290 --> 02:33.180 But as your site grows and you get more and more comments you might want to automatically do it for 02:33.180 --> 02:36.770 you by checking this box right there and then clicking save changes. 02:36.810 --> 02:39.260 You can see spam that has been blocked. 02:39.270 --> 02:45.750 If you go to your dashboard go down to your site stats which is Wordpress is sort of site stats that 02:45.810 --> 02:48.030 shows how many people have visited your page. 02:48.030 --> 02:53.550 It's not as good as Google Analytics but down here it does say the number of spam comments that have 02:53.550 --> 02:59.310 been blocked by acq Asmat and like we did earlier we can rearrange these windows if we want. 02:59.310 --> 03:04.840 We can also turn them on and off by clicking down the screen options checking on an off. 03:04.840 --> 03:07.800 Any things that we want or don't want on our home page. 03:07.800 --> 03:13.590 Thanks for watching and the next lessons we'll be looking at different commenting and contact form plug 03:13.600 --> 03:14.050 ins.