Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to protect you and your site from malicious content.
== Description ==
Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog's "Comments" admin screen.
Major features in Akismet include:
* Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam.
* Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator.
* URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links.
* Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user.
* A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site.
PS: You'll be prompted to get an Akismet.com API key to use it, once activated. Keys are free for personal blogs; paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.
* Based on user feedback, we have dropped the in-admin notice explaining the availability of the "privacy notice" option in the AKismet settings screen. The option itself is available, but after displaying the notice for the last 2 years, it is now considered a known fact.
* Updated the "Requires at least" to WP 4.6, based on recommendations from https://wp-info.org/tools/checkplugini18n.php?slug=akismet
* Moved older changelog entries to a separate file to keep the size of this readme reasonable, also based on recommendations from https://wp-info.org/tools/checkplugini18n.php?slug=akismet
= 4.1.4 =
*Release Date - 17 March 2020*
* Only redirect to the Akismet setup screen upon plugin activation if the plugin was activated manually from within the plugin-related screens, to help users with non-standard install workflows, like WP-CLI.
* Update the layout of the initial setup screen to be more readable on small screens.
* If no API key has been entered, don't run code that expects an API key.
* Improve the readability of the comment history entries.
* Don't modify the comment form HTML if no API key has been set.
For older changelog entries, please see the [additional changelog.txt file](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/akismet/trunk/changelog.txt) delivered with the plugin.