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Can you please provide me with your Apache access logs, if possible?

Are you using any type of CDN, masking, or forwarding on your site?

I just re-ran a test on your site and can confirm the plugin appears to be working at this time.

I’ve tested using the referrers “semalt.com” and “rank-checker.online”. Both appear to be effectively blocked.

Please monitor for the next 48 hours – you should see a dramatic reduction in hits from these referrers.

I’m going to mark this support topic as resolved for now, but we can re-open it in case you’re unable to confirm that the issue has been solved on your site.

Thank you for your patience.

WPMU is when you turn wordpress from a single site in to a full network of sites. Stands for “WordPress Multi User”.

As I mentioned before, the plugin does not appear to be active on your site. Can you please confirm that the plugin is enabled?

Update – are you by any chance using WPMU for your site? I saw some gaps for WPMU and closed them up, posted a new update. Please confirm. I’m on standby to help.

Bookmonster,

Are you certain that the plugin is active on your website? I’ve tested about a dozen random domains from the blocklist and none are actually being blocked.

Please confirm. If you’re comfortable with providing me with a login for your site in order to troubleshoot the problem, I’d be willing to work with you. Otherwise, would you be open to a screensharing session?

Are you hosting on a private/virtual server or shared hosting? Who is your hosting provider?

Bookmonster, I have your domain from a previous support thread actually. I’ll run some quick tests and post back here in a few moments.

Are you talking about “rank-checker.online” or “rank.checker.online”?

I see that “rank-checker.online” is in the public block list already and is working successfully on my test sites. I use a variety of sites to test with different configurations, including WPMU.

“rank.checker.online”, however, is not in the public list. It would only get blocked if you add it manually. When adding domains to the list be sure to just use the domain. For example “rank.checker.online” will work, but “https://rank.checker.online/something/else.html” will not.

What is the domain of your site? I can test it using my validation tools to see if it’s easy for me to reproduce the issue.

Thanks!

Does anyone know how WPMU/Multisite installs are counted? Does it get counted for each “network”, or each blog?

Version 1.1.35 was just released. I’ve included a whitelisting feature for t.co. This will help automatically remove the domain from list of more “casual” users.

I really appreciate your feedback.

t.co was removed from the base list in a previous update. It had actually been submitted to us by multiple users which helped it slip passed auto-review.

Apologies for the trouble.

If you have t.co in your local list, please manually remove it.

Thank you for your feedback.

t.co has been flagged as a false positive and will be removed from the list in future updates.

Hello Mai,

This spammer was submitted to us within the past 48 hours and was added to the block list last night. Please upgrade to version 1.1.1 to ensure this spammer is getting blocked.

If you add a domain to the blocklist and have enabled the data sharing feature, it gets submitted back to my servers to be added to a review list which is then used to update the default blocklist in each update.

I am incredibly grateful for all of the users who keep this feature enabled and regularly comb their analytics to add more domains. As a result, this plugin now has the largest single list of referral spammers available in open-source. 690 blocked domains as of last night’s release!

Version 1.2 is road-mapped to include live-updating so that blocklist updates occur in the background and independently of new plugin versions.

If you need more assistance, please let me know.

Hi Bookmonster,

Please download version 1.1. It has been optimized for non ASCII languages and tested on several versions of PHP, both with and without php-intl package installed.

I would appreciate if you could report back after a few days to see if your analytics have cleared up.

Thanks!

P.S – If you enjoy the plugin and the support I provide, I would greatly appreciate your feedback and a 5 star rating.

Bookmonster,

I’m working on a new update and would like your input please.

The newest change incorporates the logic I described in my previous post. However, I see that it requires a specific PHP library in order to work.

Do you know if your server has PHP5.3+ w/ International package? For example, if you were running ubunutu, you can install by using the command
`apt-get install php5-intl

I’ve included fall-back support in case a server doesn’t have this library installed.

I’m trying to gauge how many of my users can support this native PHP function via the intl library, or if I need to use a different method.

The new update should be ready within the next few hours if you want to try it out for yourself.

Thanks,
Jacob

Thank you for your feedback. We’ll solve this!