Comments on: Understanding the WordPress API key

By: bledsoe

bledsoe — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:23:16 +0000

Hi Vipin,

I wrote this post over two years ago and it still gets a lot of hits. Glad it was helpful.

By: Vipin

Vipin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:42:27 +0000

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By: bledsoe

bledsoe — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:48:20 +0000

Hi Rick, I'm not sure if I understand all your questions, but I'll do my best. 1. The API (which stands for Application Programming Interface) key I'm talking about in this post is the Wordpress API. It's essentially a set of rules that allows programmers to create plugins for wordpress. Akismet is one plugin that uses the Wordpress API, but there's no such thing as an "Akismet API". 2. Self-hosted wordpress sites as well as wordpress.com sites can both use the Wordpress API. 3. I don't know what "olivine" means. Hope this helps,

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:41:32 +0000

Some olivine require an API other than akismet. Is there a separate API for akismet and other plugins? I plugin something that stated it was an akismet API and I could change if I wanted to. There was no details of my stats either. Is there a difference if I self host?

By: bledsoe

bledsoe — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:57:10 +0000

Thanks, rafa, glad it was helpful.

By: rafa

rafa — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:43:02 +0000

Thank you very much Lance!

I saw so many questions about using the same api key on several websites remaining unanswered that I was about to signup for a new wordpress.com account. I found your post right on time.

Best regards and cheers!
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By: Sofyanr

Sofyanr — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:30:10 +0000

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By: bledsoe

bledsoe — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:28:06 +0000

Hi jppp, and thanks for the kudos. Glad the post was helpful.

By: jppp

jppp — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:06:44 +0000

Thank you so much. I have just built a self hosted blog and wanted to have akismet. I was asked to have a wordpress.com account for it and was wondering whether I should have a different username and password for it. This article has cleared so many of my doubts. Thanks once again.