Akismet: It can be defined as the service that filters spam from the comments, trackbacks, and contact form messages. It is one of those WordPress anti-spam plugins which is highly recommendable. Akismet can also be called the official free plugin by WordPress. Here, the filters work by combining the information about spam captured on the various participating sites, and then using this information or we can say the spam rules, we can easily block the future spam.
Even every WordPress installation has the pre-installed Akismet plugin, but we need to activate this plugin as this is not activated by default. For Example: whenever multiple websites start reporting for similar-looking content as spam then at that time Akismet identifies that similar-looking content as spam in the future. It becomes more essential to use when you want to prevent your websites or WordPress blog from a lot of common spam causing problems.
Why Akismet Is Important to Use: By using Akismet, We can efficiently save our countless hours spend on filtering the spam comments manually. As on Websites like WordPress, we get a huge number of spam comments as high as 85%. This means out of every 100 comments only 15 are legitimate. Hence Akismet is very important to use in order to prevent our websites from spam.
Advantages of Akismet:
- It automatically checks all the comments and also filters out the one which looks like spam.
- The number of the approved comments for each user can be seen by Akismet
- Here, Each comment has a status history, so we can easily check which comment is cleared by Akismet, marked as spam by the moderator.
Jetpack: It can be defined as the ultimate toolkit for WordPress websites. It also provides us with everything we need to secure, speed up and grow the site. Using Jetpack is more secure as It provides us the security for easy-to-use, comprehensive sites including spam protection, backups, and malware scanning. It is also a suite of libraries that helps the developers to follow the best practices and write code efficiently. Its performance feature is also very good and provides the visitor a better experience to your websites.
Advantages of Jetpack:
- We can get a safer yet stronger site via secure logins and even protection from brute force attacks.
- It helps the websites to load the pages faster and also makes the visitors happy with lightning-fast CDN.
- It also increases the website’s traffic with the help of automatic social sharing, site search, similar content, and also customer management.
