Set your own price

Akismet is a spam filtering plugin for WordPress. It checks comments, contact forms and other user submissions automatically, helping stop fake messages reaching your website before you ever see them.

If your website allows visitors to leave comments or submit forms, spam will definitely be a problem. Instead of checking every message yourself, Akismet automatically filters suspicious submissions into a spam folder while letting genuine comments and enquiries through. It supports most of the popular WordPress form plugins too, so it's not just limited to blog comments.

Akismet is made by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and WooCommerce, and has been part of the WordPress ecosystem for years. Millions of websites use it because it's simple to set up and, once it's running, there's very little else you need to do.

Things to know

• Set your own price for personal websites
• Designed for WordPress
• Blocks comment and contact form spam
• Works with popular WordPress form plugins
• Developed by Automattic

How to claim the deal

Use the link above to create your Akismet account.

You then set how much you’d like to pay per year. And that includes £0 if it’s a website for personal use.

As always, terms and conditions apply.

Akismet pricing

Akismet offers different plans depending on how you're using it. Personal, non-commercial websites can choose their own price, while commercial websites pay a monthly subscription based on usage. Larger organisations can also choose Business or Enterprise plans if they need higher limits and additional support.

Akismet pros and cons

Pros

• Excellent spam protection
• Very easy to set up
• Works with popular WordPress plugins
• Trusted by millions of WordPress websites
• Developed by the team behind WordPress.com

Cons

• Mainly designed for WordPress
• Business websites require a paid subscription

Our thoughts

Spam protection isn't something you don’t think about until it becomes a problem, and with websites, that's pretty quickly. Once your website starts attracting lots of fake comments and form submissions, it's one of those jobs you don't want to be doing manually.

Akismet does exactly what you'd expect it to do. It filters spam automatically, it's easy to set up, and because it's made by Automattic, it integrates really well with WordPress. There aren't loads of settings to configure or anything complicated to learn, you install it and let it get on with the job.

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