Title: Missing API Key
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Missing API Key

 *  [Nola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nola/)
 * (@nola)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-api-key/)
 * I’ve been pounding my head on the desk for about half an hour, but for some reason
   that hasn’t helped me find my API Key. I logged into my dashboard, clicked ‘my
   account’, and checked the entire page, just like the plug-in installation instructions
   had told me to. There’s no API Key there. So then I logged into my account here
   in the support site, thinking maybe I had it wrong and THIS was where my API 
   Key would be, but if it’s here it’s hiding from me. Am I missing a key piece 
   of information? The instructions also said that I’d get a twelve digit API key
   in an email when I signed up for an account, but the only email I received had
   my temporary password in it— only 6 characters. No key.
 * I’m starting to get pelted by spam in my comments section and would really like
   to activate this plug-in. Anyone have any suggestions?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-api-key/#post-362278)
 * Maybe you missed the most important bit: you have to sign up not here at the 
   wordpress.org, but at wordpress.**com** for a free blog and there you’ll get 
   the API key.
 *  [coxtree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coxtree/)
 * (@coxtree)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-api-key/#post-362655)
 * OK, great, I’ve been having the same problem, I signed up for a WP blog, and 
   now I have a WP acct for my WP site, and a different WP acct for my blog! how
   can they be combined?
 *  [frankenschulz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankenschulz/)
 * (@frankenschulz)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-api-key/#post-362664)
 * Nola, I feel empathy for you… Do we really have to get an account at wordpress.
   com? This is weird since I’m running my blog on my own…
 *  [spencerp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spencerp/)
 * (@spencerp)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-api-key/#post-362665)
 * Yes frankenschulz, you’ll have to signup there and get a blog and stuff..but 
   you don’t have to use it.. =P
 * [http://wordpress.com/signup/](http://wordpress.com/signup/)
 * Just grab the API key from the email after signing up, or once you login, it’s
   under the profile section. I hope this helps! =)
 * spencerp
 * Haha, me thinks me beat Podz by a few seconds on the posting lol! =P
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-api-key/#post-362666)
 * Yes you do need to get a blog at wordpress.com
    No there is no way around it 
   You do not have to use that blog at wordpress.com It’s the way it is 🙂
 * But … you can always use that blog as a vent point. For those posts you reall
   do want to write but your boss / partner / friend would be annoyed etc. Do it
   carefully enough and it’ll be a useful place !
 *  [frankenschulz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankenschulz/)
 * (@frankenschulz)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-api-key/#post-362669)
 * thanks, i’m thinking about it…

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-api-key/#post-362669)
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