doug wilson

hits, attempts, is not access, logins

right. loginyzer comes default with a server I use. every server, that I know of, has an access log and an error log that can be looked at. I’d be curious as to what’s in them. No plugin, or firewall, can stop any person or bot from requesting (hit) thewebsite/wp-login.php

what code is returned with the attempts: 200, 403 … ?

I’m curious whether people are talking about hits or login attempts.

you can set default cat to lifestyle in writing (?). then delete cat LS 1, LS2 and all posts will be moved to LS. Any duplicate posts would end up LS/post-1, LS/post-2…

didn’t get much from error report but anything like remote_get is gonna run into a wall.

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what method is wp using to “communicate” with the server?

I’m going to try and recreate the error

Oh, I see the topic is already circulating. I guess my question is who is the “We” and why is it anybodies business whether I toast my site or not. That “we” is most likely doing something that I’ve instructed my server to block.

Okay, got rid of code highlight… Got this when editing footer: “Unable to communicate back with site to check for fatal errors, so the PHP change was reverted. You will need to upload your PHP file change by some other means, such as by using SFTP.”

Thanks Marius. I’ll take a look.

Did that already. How about getting rid of the code highlights, numbered lines and auto-complete in the editor?

really wanted your views on performance. 1 deny via htaccess versus allow all and let plugin analyse things. I know it’s milliseconds. But I have no way of accurately testing what any number of visitors might experience. I can test server response time but that’s miles different than wordpress/theme/images/api/etc times

But thanks, I’ll just continue playing with things

The question was

“Wouldn’t it be better to block a habitual offender, from say a company, myself? So, performance wise, the firewall, wordpress, php, database … never has to get involved?”

… myself meaning htaccess.

2) “user agents are easily faked, I wouldn’t even bother considering them.”

faked? is that the right word? can I visit a site using mozilla 5 linux and have it show up as MSIE 8 in logs?

My question was as to how things were dealt with and wondering about performance. I can’t see any reason to have a plugin analyzing the behavior of every bot using MSIE 5 or 6 when I could stop them before they get that far and serve them a few kb html page.

I’ve an up to date site and this did not happen … did you check php/server errors?

If it were me I’d be curious

Unfortunately … Under Construction theme from Web Factory

That’s a plugin… if you don’t need/want it delete it

If I wanted to test/learn something like “Visual Composer Page Builder from WP Bakery” I’d make a test site (yoursitedotcom/test/), install wp there and play around with things