Comments on: Bad Behavior 1.0-rc3

By: Denis de Bernardy

Denis de Bernardy — Mon, 02 May 2005 08:19:48 +0000

Well, I couldn’t really see the effect of bad behavior last month, since I merely have cumulative stats from awstats and no logs due to wp-cache. However, for what a day’s worth of awstats is worth, not a single bot that gets through. Thus, I’d say they work together quite well already, as long as you use the generic bad behavior _before_ wp-cache.

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Sun, 01 May 2005 05:54:52 +0000

Heh, Denis, you’re in a special situation all right. Some time soon I’ll set up a test blog and get WP-Cache and Bad Behavior working properly together and work up some kind of official solution.

By: Denis de Bernardy

Denis de Bernardy — Sun, 01 May 2005 02:13:48 +0000

I’d love to, but wp-cache bypasses the plugin includes. meaning i’ll need to go through your source and customize.

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:14:10 +0000

Denis, the generic version does not log anything, unless you customize it for your particular setup. If you’re just wanting to protect a single WordPress blog, you should probably use it as a WordPress plugin instead. The generic version is intended for people to port Bad Behavior to other PHP-based software, or for special situations (e.g. protecting all vhosts on a server at once).

By: Denis de Bernardy

Denis de Bernardy — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:20:25 +0000

I call it from /index.php, via:

require_once(‘wp-content/plugins/bad-behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php’);

I get absolutely nothing in my logs. Meaning that I should configure a couple of variables, or just that the generic version does not log anything?

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:50:05 +0000

David, I wrote it, so I put my spreadfirefox ID in there. Feel free to change it to yours, but since that page is almost always only seen by spammers, don’t expect to get too many points out of it. They don’t like spammers either.

M J, I don’t interrupt or change what is sent to Google in any way. That includes Mediapartners-Google/2.1. The problem is that Google serves ads based on keywords, and those keywords don’t necessarily have to be the most relevant on your page; they just have to be present on your page. For instance, you have ‘bicycle accident’ on your homepage which I think is causing you to get ads about road safety. This is a very common occurrence with Google AdSense. The only workaround I know of is to lower the number of posts per page.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:48:36 +0000

Just to repeat a few people, many thanks for the ping! Still no spam getting through, despite Bad Behaviour being the only anti-spam plugin I’m using. Fantastic work, much appreciated.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:44:38 +0000

I’m with James: thanks so much for pinging me.

By: MJ

MJ — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:53:04 +0000

Love your plugin! Up until I installed it, I was moderating up to 40 spamments a day. Now zero! However, I have also noticed that the Google Adsense ads on my site are no longer always related to the content of my site – golf. Could you confirm that the plugin is not effecting their crawler?

By: Josiah

Josiah — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:29:38 +0000

Thank you for the trackback. I greatly appreciate it.