Support Forum
Support Forum
VIP
Offline
Thought i would pass this on.
Been using Bad Behavior for some time now and it's great at stopping resource stealing rogue bots, site scrapers, comment spammers, and other nasties from sucking up your bandwidth and system resources.
On my site it has blocked 1241 access attempts in the last 7 days.
- Doc ~ An old Fidonet SysOp. Just hanging out in cyberspace keeping up with tech.
Offline
Wow - one of the oldest WP plugins and still going strong! It always was a good one,.
 |
YELLOW
SWORDFISH
|
Offline
Thanks for the recommendation. Does this also prevent spam registration ? I am using recaptcha for user registration but still everyday 3-4 spambots manage to pass through it. Any way to curb that ?
Also I was looking for some plugin for ensuring my website is safe against potential hackers. Recently the databse of a major testprep company was comprimsed and credit card details, user login and passwords got stolen. Any recommendations for plugins for this ?
VIP
Offline
mann said
Thanks for the recommendation. Does this also prevent spam registration ? I am using recaptcha for user registration but still everyday 3-4 spambots manage to pass through it. Any way to curb that ?Also I was looking for some plugin for ensuring my website is safe against potential hackers. Recently the databse of a major testprep company was comprimsed and credit card details, user login and passwords got stolen. Any recommendations for plugins for this ?
One of the strong points of Bad Behavior is it uses Project Honey Pot to look up each requestors IP thus blocking any access from an IP or otherwise flagged site. This is the link to register for a key: http://www.projecthoneypot.org....._login.php
I assume any hackers would be blocked as well. But I'm just a hobbyist, and learn a little here and a little there.
As for WordPress most hacks could be because the site owner don't have his wp-config.php locked down where a hacker could read the sites database and password. I have mine set to 400 Read for the owner only. Otherwise regular database dumps and backups are crucial.
Speaking of Backups. I use Backup Buddy. Another Great WP Plugin: http://pluginbuddy.com/backupbuddy
- Doc ~ An old Fidonet SysOp. Just hanging out in cyberspace keeping up with tech.
Offline
For those who have ssh access and a linux box I have script that does an rsync of public_html, mysqldump, creates a date stamped archive snapshot and check if any previous archives are older than 90 days old whereupon it deletes them.
It then sends me an email report.
The whole process takes less than 10 minutes and I have 6 WP installations on 5 subdomains. It all runs as a daily chron job and is an absolute dream to use.
I didn't write it but tweaked it to suit, you can get it here:
http://blog.tpa.me.uk/2012/02/.....r-content/
We should maybe have a pinned topic for this sort of stuff, it is really good to know what others are using.
Conrad
Offline
we used to use backup buddy (and still do on some personal sites) but found a home grown script works best for our sp stuff...
I will take a look at adding a new forum for the sharing of plugins, ideas, and other stuff...
Visit Cruise Talk Central and Mr Papa's World
Offline
Visit Cruise Talk Central and Mr Papa's World
Offline
Mr Papa said
https://simple-press.com/suppo.....nd-tricks/
This seems like a very good idea. The problem with the wordpress.org forums is that you hardly get responses to your issues. Since Simple-press is a close knit community here, we'd like to help out each other and who knows what direction this may go into and what shape this idea may take! The fringe benefit of this would be that it'd bring more traffic to simple-press because people will come searching for wordpress related queries. I'll soon do a review of Simple-press on wordpress site also.
Offline
hope so!
but have moved it to: https://simple-press.com/suppo.....nd-tricks/
as the new name (suggested by BrandonC) was better than my original one!
Visit Cruise Talk Central and Mr Papa's World
All RSS1 Guest(s)