Bad Behavior Stats Plugin

Came across Bad Behaviour which is a plugin for Wordpress which is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots. It goes far beyond User-Agent and Referer, however.

Also found out that Mark Jaquith’s blog showed some kind of stats in the footer.

Having not found any Stats plugin for BB, I wrote to him. He promptly responded with the function he is using to retrieve the number of spams blocked by BB.

And I decided to convert it into a plugin for WordPress.

Overview:
This is a plugin to display number of blocked access attempts of Bad Behavior Plugin.

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Post Date :: Saturday, May 21st, 2005 at 12:04 am
Category :: Blogging
Tags :: Bad Behavior, bad behavior stats, Blogging, plugin, stats, third party integration
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IO ERROR says:
May 21st, 2005 at 11:12 am

Thanks! I will have to link to this, but I can’t really do it until you get your permalink fixed. It’s giving me a 404. I had to access the post manually by /index.php?p=302.

You might also be able to improve the situation somewhat by adding ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404 to .htaccess to force WP to process the request. In some cases this can get your permalinks working again, as well.

Ajay says:
May 21st, 2005 at 1:01 pm

I have gotten the site working again.
For some reason the .htaccess file disappeared.

It’s fixed now hopefully.

Thanks for the ErrorDocument code. I have added that to the .htaccess

Now I guess you can link to the plugin.

I have also released the plugin via WP-Plugin manager.

Lastly, who did you find the id of my post?

IO ERROR says:
May 21st, 2005 at 3:38 pm

The ID of your post is in the (Read more…) link. I’ll link back to here as soon as I get some sleep.

Ajay says:
May 23rd, 2005 at 3:43 pm

Cool.

Been having some site problems lately.
Added the plugin to WP-Plugins.org.

Still learning the system.

Melody says:
May 25th, 2005 at 7:05 pm

Nice to see you back up again! And like this look a million times better than the old one!!

I say, stick to a look that works rather than trying to create new ones that don’t!

Novac says:
May 31st, 2005 at 12:18 pm

Great plugin addition for BB!

Just one thing, though . . . I found it odd that you would perform an add_action to wp_footer. That’s certainly not what I wanted to happen. Perhaps it would be a nicer idea to comment the line out in the original code so that those who want it added to wp_footer could do a quick uncomment.

Ajay says:
May 31st, 2005 at 2:38 pm

Thanks for the suggestion. I guess I will put it on a to-do list.
But, how about having a user setting where a user can set if they want to auto-add it to wp_footer or not?

I have some more features in mind that I think I can add.

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