You can now get an account on WordPress.com without creating a blog, something people have been asking for a fair amount. ¶
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tom | May 18th, 2006 @ 12:10 pm |
yay
Jesse | May 18th, 2006 @ 12:40 pm |
^
excellent
Ashwin | May 18th, 2006 @ 12:55 pm |
That’s good news. Cheers!
John Lloyd | May 18th, 2006 @ 2:31 pm |
Ahhh, good news. I’d hoped to do this so that I could take advantage of spam features that, I think, require an account….
Andy C | May 19th, 2006 @ 2:02 am |
Great. Thanks. Even better, the ‘fair amount’ is absolutely free of charge !
Adam | May 19th, 2006 @ 5:03 am |
This sure will cut down on the number of wordpress.com ‘fake’ blogs just to get an API key.
Although I am sure it wouldn’t have hurt the overall statistics on the number of new/total blogs on wp.com
Matt | May 19th, 2006 @ 10:45 am |
Yeah, but the # of new blogs on WP.com doesn’t really need help. I think it will increase the total signups without changing the blog number too much.
Alex | May 19th, 2006 @ 11:18 pm |
Funny enough I must have been one of the first users that registered since then – I didn’t know that it was only since yesterday !
That might explain why I couldn’t see my Account/Profile details yesterday, even though I was registered. The links were going nowhere (at the time).
I got the api key in the end from the second mail that was sent to me (and was very glad – I’ve been getting 20 to 30 spam every 2,3 hours or so).
Akismet really works !
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Paul Roberts | May 21st, 2006 @ 6:03 am |
okay, i decided to give it a go and deleted the blog, i can still log in and the api key gives me no errors.
i then decided to set up a new account without a blog, using my name and not the name of the old blog, works fine, but i can’t find an Akismet api key for this new account, all i can do i start a blog.
Paul Roberts | May 21st, 2006 @ 6:43 am |
cool, the api key was in the welcome email.
Christine | May 22nd, 2006 @ 2:02 am |
Sweet! I’ve always felt bad creating a “fake” blog just to get the API key.
filosofo | May 23rd, 2006 @ 2:52 pm |
Thanks Matt. This has been really handy as I’ve started using Akismet to fight the recent deluge of trackback spam.
One suggestion though: could you allow users sans blog to 1) change their passwords and 2) view their Akismet keys? Right now clicking “My Account” just gives you the blog signup page.