Martin Lormes

<p><em>Block Top Spammers</em> 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 <code>.htaccess</code> file to block those spammers from your website entirely, thus taking load off the server. – You will need another plugin (like <a href="http://akismet.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Akismet</a>) to identify the spam.</p>
<p>PHP 5 and Apache required.</p>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<h4>0.6 (April 2010)</h4>
<ul>
<li>edit blacklist (i.e. remove individual addresses, manually add addresses and/or subnets)</li>
<li>manually override .htaccess location</li>
<li>customize 403 error shown to blocked spammers</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0 (May 2010)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Multi-Site support (WordPress 3.0, maybe WPMU 2.8/2.9)</li>
</ul>


Block Top Spammers

Block Top Spammers displays a list of your top spammers' IP addresses. It also generates a blacklist for your .htaccess file.

<ul>
<li>When judging that Akismet is SPAM when the comment is processed</li>
<li>When marking it as SPAM in the comment section of the dashboard</li>
<li>When you make the approval status SPAM when the comment section of the dashboard edits the comment</li>
</ul>
<p>List IP address from the database in case of the above-mentioned, and Deny the IP address. .htaccess is updates.</p>
<p>It changes in the comment block from</p>
<p>BEGIN written by WordPress plugin – Akismet htaccess writer</p>
<p>to</p>
<p>END written by WordPress plugin – Akismet htaccess writer</p>
<p>in the content of the .htaccess file.</p>
<p>After the .htaccess file, it is written in the tail when the block identifier is not found.</p>
<p>***** Please do not do the contact to the author of the Akismet plug-in for this plug-in *****</p>


Akismet htaccess writer

in connection with Akismet, write in a .htaccess file

Block Top Spammers vs Akismet htaccess writer