Akismet

Follow the below steps to connect Formie to the Akismet API.

Step 1. Open the Captcha Settings

1. Navigate to Formie → Settings → Spam Protection → Captchas.
2. Select Akismet in the left-hand sidebar.
3. Turn on Enabled.

Step 2. Get Your Akismet API Key

1. Go to Akismet (opens new window) and create an account, or sign in to an existing one.
2. After signing up, Akismet will email you your API key. You can also find it in your Akismet account.
3. Copy the API key.

Step 3. Connect Formie to Akismet

1. Paste the API key into the API Key field in Formie.
2. Save the captcha settings.

Step 4. Form Setting

1. Go to the form you want to protect.
2. Enable Akismet for that form.
3. For multi-page forms, turn on Show on All Pages if the spam check should run on every page instead of only the final submit step.
4. Save the form.

Akismet screens submissions in the background, so there is no visible challenge on the front end.

Verify a Submission

Save the form, open it on your site and submit recognisable test values. Submit through the site and check the resulting submission and spam state. A saved credential alone does not verify the visitor-facing challenge or server-side check.

If nothing arrives, check whether integration conditions matched, whether the submission was complete and non-spam, and whether Craft’s queue has processed the job. A successful connection check verifies credentials; it does not prove that field mapping and delivery work. See Connect and Test an Integration for a complete mapping and verification workflow.