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Following Thilak’s results, I installed Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Image Plugin for Wordpress to test.
I’m much against the idea of using Captcha for my blog, because of the problems with accessibility. However, of late I have been getting a lot of spam.
Even though Bad Behavior has blocked 10000+ access attempts in the last seven days, a [...]

The latest version of Bad Behavior i.e. 2.0.6 includes a new check where it looks up various blacklists.
A new blocking method using realtime blackhole lists is being used to determine if a post originates from a known spam source, open proxy, etc. GET requests are not screened. Links are provided to blackhole list removal procedures [...]

I have just released the Bad Behavior Stats plugin v2.1
Updates since the last release.

Link to Bad Behavior homepage fixed
Title attributes added to the BBStats and Bad Behavior Links
New variable %totalcount% added for displaying total number of access attempts if verbose logging is enabled.
Now, admin functions and wp-dash functions are only declared if on the admin [...]

I have just released the Bad Behavior Stats plugin v2.0
Updates since the last release.

Plugin now works with Bad Behavior 1.x and 2.x
Only counts the number of blocked attempts.
Number of blocked attempts can now be viewed under Options >> BB Stats as well.
Few miscellaneous fixes

Read more and download the plugin>>

The other while checking my Siltide Sitescore the other day, I found that it kept reporting that it couldn’t find my site.
I could see that my blog was working and I was even able to validate it as well. Just meant a probable blocking of the site.
On disabling Bad Behavior I found that I [...]

Update: This tutorial is now superceded by A Comprehensive Guide to Protecting Your Blog from Spam.
Comment spam is something every blogger is really really afraid of. Over the past two years that I have been using WordPress this is one problem that I have faced on and off.
I realized that the amount of spam I [...]

Have just released the latest version of my Bad Behavior Stats plugin viz. v1.6.
It is now compatible with Bad Behavior 1.2.
It now counts both 403 and 412 errors.
Read more and download the plugin>>

Have just released the latest version of my Bad Behavior Stats plugin viz. v1.5.
The plugin now has a brand new options page. Have dumped the variables $count_only and $returns.
Now the text to be displayed can be configured directly from the Options >> BB Stats page.
Also available is a widget for WP-Dash, which is a plugin [...]

Released v1.4 of my Bad Behavior Stats plugin today.
v1.4 is a major update.
You can now set the various options through Options >> BB Stats
Read about the plugin>>

Released v1.2 of my Bad Behavior Stats plugin today.
v1.2 has the following updates:
Now, the number of days variable $bb_no_of_days is passed to the function as an argument, which means the plugin file need no longer be modified during install / upgrade.
The function has also been changed to reflect this.
Also added another another argument that is [...]