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verification code?</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </nav> </div> <div class="xlarge-9 large-9 medium-8 small-12"> <article id="post-192" class="aks-developer-article-content"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://akismet.com/support/general/wordpress-account/" rel="bookmark">Why do I need a WordPress.com account?</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content clearfix"> <div class="xlarge-9 large-8 medium-12 small-12 doc-content"> <h3 id="what-is-wordpress-com-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with akismet" class = "wp-block-heading" >What is WordPress.com, and what does it have to do with Akismet?</h3> <p><a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a> is a hosted web service built on the popular open source blog and site creation tool available for free at <a href="http:/wordpress.org">WordPress.org</a>. The service or product you’d like to use is one of the suite of products made by <a href="http://automattic.com">Automattic</a>, the company that runs WordPress.com.</p> <p>To best serve our growing number of customers across the company, we’ve determined that a single user account management system is a necessary step toward getting seamless payment and functional integration across all of our tools.</p> <h3 id="i-use-wordpress-to-run-a-blog-or-website-how-does-this-new-system-affect that" class = "wp-block-heading" >I use WordPress to run a blog or website, how does this new system affect that?</h3> <p>It depends on whether you’re already a WordPress.com user or if you host your own site.</p> <p>If you run your blog on WordPress.com or already have an account here, you won’t need a new account at all. Simply sign in with your existing WordPress.com account and we’ll redirect you back to the service of your choice as a logged in user.</p> <p class="has-background" style="background-color:#c1d4a2"><strong>NOTE: If you are already a user of Akismet or have installed Jetpack on your blog, you already have a WordPress.com account which you can use to sign in.</strong></p> <p>However, if you or your company downloaded and installed the free and open‑source software available on WordPress.org, and you’ve never signed up for <a href="http://jetpack.me">Jetpack</a> or <a href="http://vaultpress.com">VaultPress</a> or <a href="https://akismet.com">Akismet</a> before, the new WordPress.com account you create won’t affect your self‑hosted installation one bit</p> <h3 id="why-do-i-have-to-âapproveâ-wordpress-comâs-connection-to akismet" class = "wp-block-heading" >Why do I have to “approve” WordPress.com’s connection to Akismet?</h3> <p>This question has a complicated and technical answer, but for our purposes here, if you’ve ever used Facebook or Twitter to log into a service online, you’re doing the same kind of thing as we’re doing with WordPress.com and Automattic’s other services. 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