FAQ

 

What Means Bot?
An Internet bot, also known as a web robot, robot or simply bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet.
What Means Plugin?
WordPress Plugins are composed of scripts that extend the functionality of WordPress.
How to Install the plugin ?

Installing “Anti Bots” can be done:
1) By searching for “AntiBots” via the “Plugins > Add New” screen in your WordPress dashboard;
or
2) Download the plugin via WordPress.org Upload the ZIP file through the ‘Plugins > Add New > Upload’ screen in your WordPress dashboard Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
or
3) By FTP, extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page.

How to Remove the plugin?

A)Go to Dashboard – Plugins Page (Installed Plugins)
B) Click Deactivate
C) Click Delete

or, by FTP:

Go to folder: wp-content/plugins/ and remove the folder antibots with all files.

How to Deactivate the plugin?

1) Go to Dashboard – Plugins Page (Installed Plugins)
2) Find AntiBots Plugin
3) Click Deactivate

Where is the OnLine Guide?
Click here.
Where can i download it?

Click here.

Analytics SPAM referral

Ghost referrals (also known as log spam, referrer bombing, Ghost Spam or Phantom Visits) pollute your analytics report with false visits. They are hitting Analytics directly and don’t touch your website.
Any plugin or even if using .htaccess file can help you.
To avoid this in your Google Analytics account, you can create a Hostname Filter on each view to make sure that only traffic coming from valid website properties are included. Check the Google support site for more details.
Our plugin, Anti Bots, can help you to block bad bots. Bad bots consume bandwidth, slow down your server, steal your content and look for vulnerability to compromise your server.

Problem with RSS FEED, smartphone or tablet APP OR some API
AntiBots it is a powerful tool. Then, like all tools, it is necessary to use carefully.
Open the page Visitors Log (under Anti Bots Menu) and take a look. You can whitelist some IPs.
Check the Visitor’s table frequently, especially in the first days. You can also receive emails to help you. Just go to the notifications tab. If you use RSS FEED services, probably they have their bot to read your feeds. Remember to Whitelist their IP. Same thing if you create some smartphone APP.
How to Tell if Your Site Needs a Shot of more Memory

If your site is behaving slowly, or pages fail to load, you get random white screens of death or 500 internal server errors you may need more memory. Several things consume memory, such as WordPress itself, the plugins installed, the theme you’re using and the site content.
Basically, the more content and features you add to your site, the bigger your memory limit has to be. if you’re only running a small site with basic functions without a Page Builder and Theme Options (for example the native Twenty Sixteen). However, once you use a Premium WordPress theme and you start encountering unexpected issues, it may be time to adjust your memory limit to meet the standards for a modern WordPress installation.

Increase the WP Memory Limit is a standard practice in WordPress and you find instructions also in the official WordPress documentation (Increasing memory allocated to PHP).

Here is the link:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php

To increase the WordPress memory limit, add this info to your file wp-config.php (located at the root folder of your server)
(just copy and paste)

define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘128M’);

before this row:
/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

If you need more, just replace 128 with the new memory limit.
To increase your total server memory, talk with your hosting company.

Twitter, WhatsApp or another plugin stops the work

Probably, if some of your plugins is not working, it is because they use one (or more) bot and our plugin is blocking it.

They should tell you the User-Agent and IP of their bots because they built their stuff. I don’t know their names.

If not, follow these suggestions:

Try to load your plugin with problems.
After that, open the page Visitors Log Table (under Anti Bots Menu) and take a look. (Dashboard => Anti Bots => Visitors Log).
Look also the Bad IP table.
You can see how many times each bot was blocked at the column Num Blocked. Click the title (Num Blocked) to order by.

You can also receive emails to help you. Just go to the Notifications Tab and check yes.
Dashboard => Anti Bots => Settings => Notifications Tab.
Then, check your email for IP number.
Check also your spam folder.

Then, you can whitelist that IP.

We have also the test mode available:
Dashboard => Anti Bots => Settings => General Settings
Mark Test Mode and SAVE CHANGES.

The Plugin works with PHP 7.3 ?

Yes, our plugin works fine with PHP 7.3.