How to block spam on a wordpress Blog

To help stop spam activate the Akismet plugin.

1. Login to your wordpress blog
2. On the right hand side there is a pugin button, click it
3. Activate Akismet plugin (download here if its not all ready installed)
4. Get a WordPress API key http://wordpress.com/api-keys/ (its free)
5. Set the WordPress API key in the Akismet settings page.

99.98 % of spam will automatically be rejected. You should check the spam folder every once in a while to remove false positives.