Title: API KEY LOST Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # API KEY LOST * [thepixlpusher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepixlpusher/) * (@thepixlpusher) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-lost-1/) * I have tried to find My API key with no luck. I have looked in all the places that people have said to look. Can you tell me how to get a new one or send me mine. I know I might received a email with it when I signed up but I can not find that either. Please help I need it for the spam filter. Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-lost-1/#post-700066) * _I have looked in all the places that people have said to look._ * List them… Better yet, on your admin > Plugins page where it shows the Akismet plugin READ carefully this: * > _Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they > look like spam or not. You need a **WordPress.com API key** to use it. _ * And CLICK on that link before coming here… * Thread Starter [thepixlpusher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepixlpusher/) * (@thepixlpusher) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-lost-1/#post-700079) * I already did thanks. * [Adam Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamrbrown/) * (@adamrbrown) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-lost-1/#post-700081) * So, problem solved? * Thread Starter [thepixlpusher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepixlpusher/) * (@thepixlpusher) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-lost-1/#post-700084) * Moshu thanks for nothing but a snotty response. I figured it out by the way without your help. I didn’t realize that I still had two blogs and the API key was on the first one I created. The reason I am explaining this is so that everyone else can have an actual answer other than “And CLICK on that link before coming here…” Your worthless. * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-lost-1/#post-700085) * thepixlpusher: This question shows up in these forums on at least a daily basis. 20 seconds of searching should have revealed the answer. moshu’s response in fact told you where to go that would have given you a direct link to your answer. * [mss71ny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mss71ny/) * (@mss71ny) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-lost-1/#post-700433) * Thoughts from a ‘NEWBIE’: ‘signing up’ and ‘…clicking the “My Account” link in the top right when you’re logged in…’ are far from clear and concise in my experience. (Which are the instructions you receive from that link provided by moshu). I installed WP on a server/domain for our website… in _that_ Admin panel there is NOT a “My Account” – however there is a “Howdy {name}” in the top right, and a “Your profile” in the left panel lineup… but of course _neither of them_ provide you with your API key. * I received an email from WP when I installed it on the website – again no API key given. Sorting through some of these forum pages I _THOUGHT_ I made progress in making a FORUM ACCOUNT – but that also did NOT yield any results. I received ANOTHER email from WP pertaining to my forum account – but still nothing re API keys… * **The ANSWER::** You must create a WORDPRESS ACCOUNT (which is different than installing it on a website / server – AND – different from creating a Forum Account). You can do that at [http://wordpress.com/signup/](http://wordpress.com/signup/)… * Hopefully this will help future users / newbies who found themselves as confused and lost as I was… Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘API KEY LOST’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [api key](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/api-key/) * [can't find](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cant-find/) * [lost](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/lost/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 6 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [mss71ny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mss71ny/) * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-lost-1/#post-700433) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics