Title: Block Top Spammers
Author: Martin Lormes
Published: <strong>5. September 2009</strong>
Last modified: 23. März 2010

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Plugins suchen

Dieses Plugin wurde **nicht mit den 3 neuesten Hauptversionen von WordPress getestet**.
Es wird möglicherweise nicht mehr gepflegt oder unterstützt und kann bei der Verwendung
mit neueren WordPress-Versionen zu Kompatibilitätsproblemen führen.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/top-spammers.svg)

# Block Top Spammers

 Von [Martin Lormes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tfnab/)

[Herunterladen](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/top-spammers.0.5.zip)

 * [Details](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/top-spammers/#description)
 * [Rezensionen](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/top-spammers/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/top-spammers/#installation)
 * [Entwicklung](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/top-spammers/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/top-spammers/)

## Beschreibung

_Block Top Spammers_ displays a list of your top spammers‘ IP addresses, based on
all comments in your database that are marked as spam. It also generates a blacklist
for your `.htaccess` file to block those spammers from your website entirely, thus
taking load off the server. – You will need another plugin (like [Akismet](http://akismet.com/))
to identify the spam.

PHP 5 and Apache required.

### Roadmap

#### 0.6 (April 2010)

 * edit blacklist (i.e. remove individual addresses, manually add addresses and/
   or subnets)
 * manually override .htaccess location
 * customize 403 error shown to blocked spammers

#### 1.0 (May 2010)

 * Multi-Site support (WordPress 3.0, maybe WPMU 2.8/2.9)

## Screenshots

[⌊Block Top Spammers displays a list of spammers' IP addresses and generates a blacklist
for your .htaccess file⌉⌊Block Top Spammers displays a list of spammers' IP addresses
and generates a blacklist for your .htaccess file⌉[

Block Top Spammers displays a list of spammers‘ IP addresses and generates a blacklist
for your `.htaccess` file

## Installation

 1. Upload the entire `top-spammers` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins` directory
 2. Activate _Block Top Spammers_ through the ‚Plugins‘ menu in WordPress
 3. Make sure you have another plugin installed and activated to identify the spam (
    if you don’t, take a look at [Akismet](http://akismet.com/))

## FAQ

  Why do I have to edit .htaccess manually?

There’s two reasons for this:

 1. Allowing WordPress to write to `.htaccess` as it does when you change the permalink
    structure would break many of my WordPress installations. Since I wrote this plugin
    first and foremost for my own use I would have never benefitted from this functionality.
 2. I actually had the plugin update `.htaccess` automatically. But then I blocked 
    myself from my test site… Blocking an IP address through `.htaccess` is quite a
    harsh measure. It doesn’t only prevent bots at that IP from posting comments, it
    prevents users who happen to use that same IP from accessing the blog. – I intend
    to automatically write to `.htaccess` in a future release, with a few security 
    mechanisms added…

  Will the plugin work with older versions of WordPress?

It might. **But I don’t support it!**

I have written the plugin for and tested it with blogs running the 2.8 version of
WordPress. It should probably work fine with any 2.7 version. With 2.6 the admin
page looks odd and checking/unchecking all table rows is not working.

## Rezensionen

Zu diesem Plugin liegen noch keine Rezensionen vor.

## Mitwirkende und Entwickler

„Block Top Spammers“ ist Open-Source-Software. Folgende Menschen haben an diesem
Plugin mitgewirkt:

Mitwirkende

 *   [ Martin Lormes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tfnab/)

[Übersetze „Block Top Spammers“ in deine Sprache.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/top-spammers)

### Interessiert an der Entwicklung?

[Durchstöbere den Code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/top-spammers/),
sieh dir das [SVN-Repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/top-spammers/) an
oder abonniere das [Entwicklungsprotokoll](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/top-spammers/)
per [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/top-spammers/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Änderungsprotokoll

#### 0.5

 * blocking access to `wp-comments-post.php` only
 * error document gives a short explanation why access was denied, links to http://
   ten-fingers-and-a-brain.com/top-spammers.html
 * admin page moved to the Comments section of the admin menu
 * IPv6 compatibility
 * Notice errors fixed
 * automatic updates of .htaccess (when writable)

#### 0.4.3

 * links to whois (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC, AfriNIC)
 * can’t blacklist an IP that has comments pending moderation (likely ham because
   Akismet hasn’t caught them)
 * links to ham or moderation queue for IP addresses with ham or comments pending
   moderation
 * layout improvements

#### 0.4.2

 * link from Block Top Spammers page to edit-comments.php to display the spam comments
   from a certain IP
 * better support for WP 2.9 and newer: when deleting comments the commentmeta table
   gets purged, too

#### 0.4.1

 * plugin now officially licensed under GPLv3
 * list of top spammers can be ordered by IP address
 * show no. of different (unique) spammers‘ IP addresses
 * admins can’t lock themselves out, i.e. their own client IP can’t be blacklisted
 * can’t blacklist an IP that also has approved comments (ham)

#### 0.4

 * separated the code into three .php files
    - top-spammers.php the main plugin file, always loaded, contains minimal code
      to reduce loading time
    - top-spammers-wp.php the plugin class file, contains all the original plugin
      code, only loaded in backend
    - top-spammers-template.php the admin-page template file, contains just the 
      admin-page html code, only loaded when admin-page is displayed
 * blacklist not autoloaded to reduce loading time
 * i18n
 * l10n for: de_DE (language file by Martin Lormes)

#### 0.3

 * initial public release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.5**
 *  Zuletzt aktualisiert **vor 16 Jahren**
 *  Aktive Installationen **20+**
 *  WordPress-Version ** 2.8 oder höher **
 *  Getestet bis **2.9.2**
 *  Sprache
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/top-spammers/)
 * Schlagwörter
 * [akismet](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/akismet/)[comments](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)
   [htaccess](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/htaccess/)[spam](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spam/)
 *  [Erweiterte Ansicht](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/top-spammers/advanced/)

## Bewertungen

Es wurden noch keine Rezensionen eingereicht.

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## Mitwirkende

 *   [ Martin Lormes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tfnab/)

## Support

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 [Support-Forum anzeigen](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/top-spammers/)

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