Installed Akismet and Stats Plugins for WordPress
June 3, 2008 – 7:39 amI just finished installing the Akismet and Stats plugins for WordPress. Both were ridiculously easy.
In the case of Akismet, the plugin came preinstalled with the WP install so all I had to do was activate the plugin and enter my API key, which I got from the “Edit Profile” link on my personal blog’s dashboard.
Stats was nearly as easy: download the stats ZIP file, extract to /wp-content/plugins/, and activate the plugin from your dashboard’s Plugins page.
One little wrinkle: I wasn’t sure whether or not to move the whole /stats/ directory, or just the stats.php file, to the wp-content/plugins/ directory. I opted for the former approach and it worked really well.
