Title: API key
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# API key

 *  [mountain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mountain/)
 * (@mountain)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-46/)
 * I was trying to install Akismet and it said I needed an API key.
    So I tried 
   to register at wordpress.com but my username from wordpress.org was already being
   used. So I signed up with another user name, and an API key was e-mailed to me.
   I should have known it wasn’t going to work. Now it says there was already a 
   key assigned to my e-mail so it won’t send me another one. What to do???

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 *  [e-sushi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/e-sushi/)
 * (@e-sushi)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-46/#post-1319886)
 * Erm, let me get this right:
 * You registered to get an api key and the key was send to you.
    Now you want another
   one because your api key does not work?
 * Why?
 * What makes you think it does not work? What “error” does wordpress produce or
   tell you about? You sure need to provide a bit more info…
 * Or even better: contact Akismet support with your API key and a description of
   the problem at [http://akismet.com/contact/](http://akismet.com/contact/)!
 *  Thread Starter [mountain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mountain/)
 * (@mountain)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-46/#post-1319896)
 * I am registered at word press. org.
    I was told to register at wordpress.com 
   to get an api. When I tried that , I was told that my user name(.org) was used
   by someone else at word press .com. So I established a new name at wp.com, that
   is not the same as my wp.org name thinking that maybe my e-mail address was compatible
   with both.The api sent to my new accoun is invalid on the .org site. Now I,m 
   told that an api was already sent to my e-mail address and another can’tr be 
   created or sent. Pretty confusing I know.
 * thanks for the response

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 * Last reply from: [mountain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mountain/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-46/#post-1319896)
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