Title: Askimet issues
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Askimet issues

 *  [pentora](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pentora/)
 * (@pentora)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/askimet-issues/)
 * I downloaded WP to my server…changed the automatically generated PW after the
   dust settled….am currently trying to win the Askimet war….searched the forums
   for help…there is no API key # in the upper right corner on my Profile page…in
   my attempts to “find” the API key have read through all WP files on my server
   that have “option” in the title, in addition to reading through all visible files
   through the browser…all to no avail. That exercise alone has eaten up almost 
   four hours. In an earlier post, someone said it was located in the Options table.
   I have looked at all documents that have the word “option(s)” in the title and
   am still empty-handed. I have pulled several all-nighters trying to get a site
   up on a tight deadline…am sitting here at 4am motivated to work on the new WP
   site….and I’ll be darned if I hit this kind of roadblock. Unbelievable.
 * Would someone PLEASE respond in PLAIN language to my question: Where is the API
   key located in the files? Where else can I look? Incredibly frustrated, J (pentoracommunications
   ATTT yoohoo)

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 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/askimet-issues/#post-700725)
 * Here are the directions.
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Akismet](http://codex.wordpress.org/Akismet)
 *  [najkiie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/najkiie/)
 * (@najkiie)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/askimet-issues/#post-700981)
 * It was killing me to. I found it after a while tho, don’t remember where :/

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 * [frustration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/frustration/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [najkiie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/najkiie/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/askimet-issues/#post-700981)
 * Status: not resolved

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