Toda instalação do WordPress vem com o plugin Akismet pré-instalado, mas ele não é ativado por padrão. Por isso, muitas pessoas nos perguntam com frequência o que é o Akismet e se é necessário ativá-lo em seu site do WordPress.
É um plug-in de filtragem de spam para WordPress criado pela Automattic. Com base em nossa experiência, recomendamos o plug-in para qualquer pessoa que queira proteger seu site de comentários com spam. A melhor parte é que o Akismet aprende com seus erros e aprimora seu processo.
Neste artigo, explicaremos o que é o Akismet e por que você deve começar a usá-lo imediatamente.
O que é o Akismet?
O Akismet é um serviço de filtragem de spam de comentários para o WordPress. A Automattic é a empresa por trás do Akismet, que foi fundada pelo cofundador do WordPress, Matt Mullenweg.
O Akismet analisa os comentários do seu blog e filtra o spam usando seus algoritmos. O algoritmo aprende com seus erros e com as ações tomadas por outros sites.
Por exemplo, quando vários sites começarem a relatar conteúdo de aparência semelhante como spam, o Akismet aprenderá a identificar esse tipo de conteúdo como spam no futuro.
Atualmente, o Akismet já detectou mais de 554 bilhões de comentários de spam, e esse número continua crescendo.
Por que você deve usar o Akismet?
Em sites populares do WordPress, o número de comentários de spam pode chegar a 85%. Isso significa que, de cada 100 comentários, apenas 15 são legítimos.
Além disso, a moderação de comentários é uma tarefa que consome muito tempo. Você teria que passar inúmeras horas filtrando manualmente os comentários de spam.
É nesse ponto que o Akismet pode lhe poupar horas. O plug-in do WordPress captura automaticamente os comentários de spam antes que eles cheguem à sua fila de moderação como pendentes. Isso permite que você concentre sua energia na moderação de comentários de usuários reais.
Quando um comentário for marcado como spam pelo Akismet, ele não mostrará o aviso Aguardando moderação, como você normalmente vê em outros comentários. Em vez disso, ele os moverá automaticamente para a pasta de spam.
Agora, vamos ver como você pode configurar o Akismet em seu site.
Como configurar o Akismet no WordPress
A primeira coisa que você precisará fazer é instalar e ativar o plug-in Akismet Spam Protection para WordPress. Para obter mais detalhes, consulte nosso guia sobre como instalar um plug-in do WordPress.
Após a ativação, você pode navegar até Configurações ” Akismet Anti-Spam no painel do WordPress. Em seguida, clique no botão “Set up your Akismet account” (Configurar sua conta Akismet).
Agora, uma nova guia ou janela será aberta em seu navegador e você verá a página de preços da Akismet. A Akismet oferece planos de preços gratuitos e premium.
Se o seu site não for para fins comerciais, ou seja, não exibir anúncios, você poderá escolher o plano Personal. Caso contrário, você precisará selecionar um dos planos comerciais.
Para fins deste tutorial, usaremos o plano Personal.
Por padrão, o preço será definido como US$ 36 por ano. No entanto, você pode mover o controle deslizante de preços em “Qual é o valor da Akismet para você” para qualquer preço de 0 a US$ 120 por ano.
Além disso, o Akismet também solicitará que você marque as caixas para informar que não está veiculando anúncios, vendendo produtos e serviços ou promovendo um negócio em seu site.
Na próxima tela, você precisará concluir o processo de checkout e escolher o preço que deseja pagar pela sua conta.
Feito isso, basta clicar no botão “Complete Checkout”.
Em seguida, você verá a chave de API do Akismet que precisará inserir em seu site.
Vá em frente e copie a chave.
Para concluir a configuração, você pode voltar ao painel do WordPress do seu site e navegar até a página Settings ” Akismet Anti-Spam.
Agora, clique no botão “Manually enter an API key” (Inserir manualmente uma chave de API).
Quando você clicar no botão, aparecerá um novo campo no qual será necessário inserir a chave da API.
Depois que a chave de API for conectada, o Akismet começará a proteger seu site contra comentários de spam.
Você também pode ajustar as configurações no Akismet. Por exemplo, o plug-in permite que você exiba o número de comentários aprovados ao lado de cada autor de comentário, revise comentários de spam ou descarte-os automaticamente e mostre um aviso de privacidade nos formulários de comentários.
Quando você tiver feito as alterações, clique no botão “Save Changes” (Salvar alterações).
Em seguida, você pode revisar os comentários de spam navegando até Comentários no painel do WordPress e selecionando a guia “Spam”.
Se você achar que um comentário legítimo foi marcado como spam, basta clicar no botão “Not Spam” abaixo do comentário.
Você também pode excluir permanentemente os comentários ou clicar no botão “Esvaziar spam” para limpar a pasta de spam.
Esperamos que este artigo tenha ajudado você a saber o que é o Akismet e por que você deve começar a usá-lo imediatamente. Você também pode conferir nosso guia sobre como bloquear o spam de referência do WordPress no Google Analytics e como acabar com o spam de trackback do WordPress.
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Egbah Ikpomwosa Andrew
I just want to say thank you for this information. Initially one would be happy seeing 50000 comments in the comment box, but Askimet surely helps you to identify real comments. Nice write-up.
WPBeginner Support
You’re welcome, glad you liked our guide
Administrador
Jamal Aezaz
I have created my first WordPress blog. as of your step by step guide. i’ve activated Akismet plugin. but I can’t see Akimest Stats in my Wordpress dashboard menu. there are only two options Home and Updates.
WPBeginner Support
They may have modified the plugin’s interface since this article was created, we’ll certainly take a look
Administrador
Lydia
I have it and I was just looking at the date as of today it hasn’t been updated in two months…that to me is a very long time for a plugin not to update.
This is why I was searching for something better.
WPBeginner Support
If you feel that that is too long between updates you can certainly look for a plugin you would prefer. As a word of warning, not all plugins need constant updates so the updated date is not always the best indicator of quality
Administrador
Scott Ramadge
Hi
This may be a silly question but now that I beleive I have this downloaded on my wordpress.com site will this mean that inappropriate language is stopped from being posted in the comments section of my blog(that is once I actually write a blog) Or do I need a seperate thing to stop profanity and if so can you suggest somthing for Wordpress.com as all I seemed to find was things for wordpress.org.
thanks
WPBeginner Support
Hi Scott,
Akismet will block spam comments containing links to bad websites, comment bots, and many more. It may not consider profanity as spam. The best way to filter that out is by turning on comment moderation for all comments on your website.
Administrador
Dhiraj Thapa
Thanks to you, now i am using Akismet anti-spam. I got spam comments during the initial days of my blogging few months ago and I didnt know about that.
Dhiraj
Daniel Cornelius
I am trying to activate Akismet. I have an kismet key, but I don’t know what to do with it.
Sandeep Kumar
Thank very much for this information.
Shumaila
it is not free any more
WPBeginner Support
Hi Shumaila,
It is still free. It is set to select your own price model. You can select your price to be zero when signing up.
Administrador
Alex
I just activated this on my blog but there’s no Stats. Anywhere. The plugin is activated and it has just two options and that’s all. Is that ok…? Or what?
Bikas Gurung
I got 5K+ comment everyday with 90% above spam and automated pingback system into my blog. At first I was glad thinking that my blog is having higher amount of traffic but later I found that they are spam while tracing with Akistmet Plugin recommend by you. Thank you so much. Anyway, which captcha plugin are best, please give me some hints.
Sanjiv
Do I need to install the Akismet plugin if I haver blocked all comments on my site?
In other words, I do not allow comments on my site.
Hoping for a reply
Thank you
WPBeginner Support
No you don’t need Akismet then.
Administrador
KAIZER
It is really helpful as I have just started using Wordpress.
John Rajesh
What are the Pros and Cons of Akismet Plugin?
Jeffrey
If my web doesn’t have comment and registeration section, do I still need Akismet?
WPBeginner Support
No.
Administrador
kalpesh
HI Admin, I have one doubt is it a paid version or available for free of cost??
WPBeginner Support
It is available for free and optionally if you like it you can choose to pay for it.
Administrador
Ralph Musgrave
Akismet is a pain in the whatsit. It keeps classifying me as spam.
WPBeginner Support
On WPBeginner Akismet didn’t mark you as spam
Administrador
KristiGarrett
What does Akismet look like to the user? Can they sign in using multiple options (Disqus, Facebook, Twitter, Google+) like you do here?
WPBeginner Staff
Akismet is a spam filtering system not a commenting system. It works in the backgrouns and not visible to your users.
RW
Akismet is an awesome plugin. I do agree with some of the other posters here that it’s worth pointing out that it is not free. The Editors point out that it’s free for personal, non-business blogs, but I don’t believe the majority of your readers are interested in personal, non-business websites.
I was saddened when Akismet went the paid route, but I understand. It’s a great plugin if you have the budget for it…
John Brinkley
What does the ‘Filter’ button do between ‘Show all comments’ dropdown box and ‘Empty Spam’ button?
Justagurlinseattle
This Akismet is marking almost every reply I write as spam.
It is getting rather frustrating. I see that they like to keep a running count as to how
much spam it is blocking, however, if 8 out of 10 of my replies are being marked as spam,
this is a highly inflated number of comments that are not spam.
I tried using my wordpress account to log in and make my comments, this did not work,
so I tried logging in via my Twitter account, this also did not work.
The Admins inform me that they are not able to retrieve my comments.
Can you help me???
any suggestions as to what I should do????
any suggestions as to how the Admins of that blog can release my comments????
WPBeginner Support
Contact Akismet support. Your comment is not marked spam for no reason. For example, if you comment on example.com and a moderator thinks that your comment is spammy and marks it as spam. Then your future comments on example.com will automatically go to spam. Until an admin or moderator on example.com looks into spam and unmarks your comment.
Administrador
Dineen Miller
I made a query at the Akismet site but didn’t get an answer so maybe you can answer my question? I’m looking at the Pro plan for my site but I want to know if commenters will be required to answer some kind of security question. Is this standard on Akismet? A feature we can turn on or off? Or does this plug in work completely in the background of the site? Thank you!
WPBeginner Support
It works completely in the background.
Administrador
Abdullah Munir
Its not free which was worth mentioning.
Editorial Staff
It’s free for personal blog users.
Administrador
Abdullah Munir
Yes, but do you really think that it would provide that professional level service for spamming?
Debra
if it is free why do I have to give Credit Card info? It says an amount I will have to pay next year, am I committed to that, what if I don’t like it.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Debra,
You don’t need to pay anything if you don’t want to. On the pricing page, select ‘Name your price’ option and then slide your price to $0.
Betsy
Does it bother anyone else that Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org are used interchangeably? I’m trying to figure out if Akismet works with Wordpress.com but all I can find is that it’s a plugin available for .org. Meanwhile, you need to register in .com to get an API account. I have a blog through wordpress.com but since they don’t allow plugins, I can’t figure out how or if Akismet runs on Wordpress.com. Does anyone have the answer to this? Am I missing something?
I know there is a widget that I can put on wordpress.com for Akismet but all it does is allow you to show it on your sidebar but it doesn’t actually do anything. Very frustrating!
Editorial Staff
WordPress.com automatically runs Akismet. But if you want to register an API, there are more than one ways available now. You can go to the official Akismet site to apply for an API. Furthermore, you can also register a WordPress.com account without a blog, and get an API as well.
WordPress.org although, the plugin must be enabled for it to run. It does not run by default like WordPress.com site does.
Administrador
Matt
Its not free, though, which is important to mention.
Ethan
There’s some changes with akismet. Now you can actually apply directly from akismet website.
http://akismet.com/personal/
Ryan
83% spam seems low to me. I would have guessed mid to upper 90s for the percentage of spam comments. But that would just be a guess and Akismet has the data to back it up.
I’m always amazed how many people don’t know about Akismet when they setup a blog. Almost seems like it should be on by defaults and signing up for an API key should be part of the process setting up a new blog.
Editorial Staff
Yeah even though Akismet comes bundled with WordPress, Many bloggers continue to ignore it because they do not know how to get this API.
Administrador
Caitlin Dundon
The thing that is currently confusing me is that I switched from wordpress.com to wordpress.org and I downloaded the plugin – but when I go to the Askimet site it asks for my wordpress.com login…which I still have, but I am not using that blog anymore since I am now selfhosted…Will that key still work with my selfhosted blog?
Editorial Staff
This is a recent change that they made. The answer to your question is yes it will still work.
Tim Live Chat
Fighting spam is a must. My previous company has a forum. Guess PHPBB is too popular, we need to spend several hours per day to clean up the spam posts.
Sergej Müller
Please test anti-spam bee – the simple antispam plugin for wordpress. It’s easy.
Jamie
Is this comment about another product an example of SPAM since this feed is about Askimet?
If it is, should ASKIMET have caught it?
When is something considered SPAM?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Jamie,
No it wasn’t spam.
Administrador