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Block Top Spammers

Block Top Spammers displays a list of your top spammers' IP addresses. It also generates a blacklist for your .htaccess file.

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Tested up to WordPress 2.9
Current version0.5
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 2.9
Minimum stackWP 2.8 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update23 Mar 201016y ago
Active installations20Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Block Top Spammers version 0.5 as active, updated 16y ago and tested up to WordPress 2.9.

Overview

About this plugin

Block Top Spammers displays a list of your top spammers’ IP addresses, based on all comments in your database that are marked as spam. htaccess file to block those spammers from your website entirely, thus taking load off the server. – You will need another plugin (like Akismet ) to identify the spam.

PHP 5 and Apache required.

Roadmap

0.6 (April 2010)

  • edit blacklist (i.e. remove individual addresses, manually add addresses and/or subnets)
  • manually override.htaccess location
  • customize 403 error shown to blocked spammers

1.0 (May 2010)

  • Multi-Site support (WordPress 3.0, maybe WPMU 2.8/2.9)
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • akismet
  • comments
  • htaccess
  • spam
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 2.9

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 2.9.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to2.9
Minimum requirementsWordPress 2.8 · PHP not listed
Update activity23 Mar 201016y ago

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