I mentioned in a previous post that WordPress plugins are great little additions to your WordPress blog, and that they can add just about any functionality you can imagine. I’ll talk a little more about each plugin that I recommended in that post as well.

Akismet, which comes pre-installed with WordPress now, can be activated quite easily, but you’ll have to have a WordPress API Key for it to work. Oddly, you have to sign up for an account with WordPress.com to get the key, but then you can use it with the full application version of WordPress (as mentioned previously, WordPress.com is the hosted version and WordPress.org is the full application - PHP/MySQL - version). After you’ve aquired your API key and activated the plugin, Akismet will rip spam to shreds and you’ll even know how many blog spam messages have been eaten by Akismet. I have one blog that’s been online since September, 2006 (10 months) and Akismet has helped me to avoid 11,251 spam-sandwiches since that point (as of this writing).

I highly recommend this plugin and have to give a big hat tip to Matt Mullenweg.

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