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Akismet Spam Protection Pro Blogger API Keys Available on GoDaddy

Dave Moyer — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:00:28 +0000

Akismet in GoDaddy's Hosting Connection

Because it comes included as a plugin in a standard distribution of WordPress.org, it makes sense that the vast majority of WordPress bloggers (and even bloggers on other platforms) use Akismet to protect their sites from the constantly growing enemy of comment spam. With a WordPress.com API key, Akismet hooks into the vast database of blogs on WordPress.com, constantly learning what is and what is not comment spam.

While the standard WordPress API keys used to activate the service are free, Akismet has long requested that blogs taking in over $500 a month of revenue pay $5 a month for a Pro Blogger API key, or, for even larger sites, choose one of the more expensive and full-featured options. Not only are these users helping keep Akismet operating and clearing the net of spam, they receive benefits such as:

Higher priority and faster service
Removal of traffic limits and throttling
Priority service update notification

Automattic announced today that Pro Blogger licenses are now available via GoDaddy.com’s Hosting Connection panel, where GoDaddy customers can easily purchase, if applicable, and install different web applications for their sites. Due to many users hosting their websites on GoDaddy, the Automattic team has decided to make the process of installing commercial versions of Akismet on GoDaddy sites even easier.

GoDaddy.com users can find commercial keys for Akismet available in their Hosting Connection panels starting today.

Trivia: Did you know that the Akismet name is a contraction of Automattic (the parent company of WordPress.com hosted blogs, Akismet, and other blogging and social media related services) and Kismet (defined as the “magnetic attractive force that actualizes the playing out of karma; often used in the positive sense”).

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WordCast 62: Toodle off

Dave Moyer — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:00:03 +0000

It’s a week of discovery on WordCast this week. We learned about a “secret” change in 2.8 that’s making some of the net mad, fascinating statistics about WordPress themes, and we even learned what a WordPress alert bar sounds like. All that and more in episode 62. We can’t believe we’ve made it this far… still.

Episode 62

WordPress ping behavior change changing the way the web should work?

Teens in Tech hacked:

CEO of b5Media steps down

Did you pay for your theme? 79% of people don’t.

Donate Friday instead of Follow Friday?

WordPress Tip of the Week: Grabbing your WordPress API key to get Akismet working

Kym’s pick: Easy Retweet plugin

Dave’s pick: wpStore theme

Voicemail from Darren

Email from Jim:

This may sound very elementary: When looking at PlugIns, many say they
aren’t tested on the latest WP version. Some are really outdated. How
do you know if something is going to work? And, are there PlugIns that
just will not with certain templates? If so, how does a user know it’s
a real issue vs their own installation problem.

Tweet from jonnyblackler: How do you improve your Google Pagerank?

Tweet from RGreenberg: How do you config Post by Email for self-hosted WP blogs?

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WordCast 2: Private Post Scandals

Dave Moyer — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:14:11 +0000

Kym shares some great design tips, WordPress 2.5 has lots of features (but we still want more) and our first few emails!

Topics and links from this week’s show:

Kym’s design idea
Widget Tutorial
Options Theme
Plugin of the Week: Akismet – Spam protection bundled with WP
CuteFTP
SmartFTP

Download this week’s podcast

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