Title: Reducing spam posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Reducing spam posts

 *  [chancewordpressorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chancewordpressorg/)
 * (@chancewordpressorg)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-spam-posts/)
 * Is there some way to reduce the number of Spam posts that show up in my comments
   section every day? It’s getting ridiculous, I have about 60 spam comments a day.

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 *  [jceresini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jceresini/)
 * (@jceresini)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-spam-posts/#post-1219331)
 * Theres a number of different ways to reduce spam comments. This is also a very
   common topic and theres a whole section of the wordpress documents pages: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam](http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam)
 * That page should help you find the solution thats best for you
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 *  Thread Starter [chancewordpressorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chancewordpressorg/)
 * (@chancewordpressorg)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-spam-posts/#post-1219386)
 * Thanks for the help on that. Now I have a new problem. When I try to activate
   Akismet, it says I need an API key to activate it. When I try to get an API key
   it takes me to a wordpress sign in screen buy my username and password don’t 
   seem to work on there. How do I get an API key?
 *  [ryans149](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryans149/)
 * (@ryans149)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-spam-posts/#post-1219391)
 * you need to “create” an account there.. your sites username (admin) and password
   wont work. Just sign for an account and get an API key. you must have this key
   to use akismet.
 * There are some captcha plugins as well, which can help reducing spam comments..

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