| 1 | === Bad Behavior === |
| 2 | Tags: comment,trackback,referrer,spam,robot,antispam |
| 3 | Contributors: error, MarkJaquith, Firas, skeltoac |
| 4 | Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=error%40ioerror%2eus&item_name=Bad%20Behavior%20%28From%20WordPress%20Page%29&no_shipping=1&cn=Comments%20about%20Bad%20Behavior&tax=0¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&charset=UTF%2d8 |
| 5 | Requires at least: 1.2 |
| 6 | Tested up to: 2.7 |
| 7 | Stable tag: 2.0.23 |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Welcome to a whole new way of keeping your blog, forum, guestbook, wiki or |
| 10 | content management system free of link spam. Bad Behavior is a PHP-based |
| 11 | solution for blocking link spam and the robots which deliver it. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, |
| 14 | preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from |
| 15 | ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site's load down, |
| 16 | makes your site logs cleaner, and can help prevent denial of service |
| 17 | conditions caused by spammers. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Bad Behavior also transcends other link spam solutions by working in a |
| 20 | completely different, unique way. Instead of merely looking at the content of |
| 21 | potential spam, Bad Behavior analyzes the delivery method as well as the |
| 22 | software the spammer is using. In this way, Bad Behavior can stop spam attacks |
| 23 | even when nobody has ever seen the particular spam before. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | Bad Behavior is designed to work alongside existing spam prevention services |
| 26 | to increase their effectiveness and efficiency. Whenever possible, you should |
| 27 | run it in combination with a more traditional spam prevention service. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | Bad Behavior works on, or can be adapted to, virtually any PHP-based Web |
| 30 | software package. Bad Behavior is available natively for WordPress, MediaWiki, |
| 31 | Drupal, ExpressionEngine, and LifeType, and people have successfully made it |
| 32 | work with Movable Type, phpBB, and many other packages. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Installing and configuring Bad Behavior on most platforms is simple and takes |
| 35 | only a few minutes. In most cases, no configuration at all is needed. Simply |
| 36 | turn it on and stop worrying about spam! |
| 37 | |
| 38 | The core of Bad Behavior is free software released under the GNU General |
| 39 | Public License. (On some non-free platforms, special license terms exist for |
| 40 | Bad Behavior's platform connector.) |
| 41 | |
| 42 | == Installation == |
| 43 | |
| 44 | *Warning*: If you are upgrading from a 1.x.x version of Bad Behavior, |
| 45 | you must remove it from your system entirely, and delete all of its |
| 46 | database tables, before installing Bad Behavior 2.0.x. You do not need |
| 47 | to remove a 2.0.x version of Bad Behavior before upgrading to this |
| 48 | release. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | Bad Behavior has been designed to install on each host software in the |
| 51 | manner most appropriate to each platform. It's usually sufficient to |
| 52 | follow the generic instructions for installing any plugin or extension |
| 53 | for your host software. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | On MediaWiki, it is necessary to add a second line to LocalSettings.php |
| 56 | when installing the extension. Your LocalSettings.php should include |
| 57 | the following: |
| 58 | |
| 59 | ` include_once( 'includes/DatabaseFunctions.php' ); |
| 60 | include( './extensions/Bad-Behavior/bad-behavior-mediawiki.php' ); |
| 61 | |
| 62 | For complete documentation and installation instructions, please visit |
| 63 | http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ |
| 64 | |
| 65 | == Release Notes == |
| 66 | |
| 67 | = Bad Behavior 2.0 Known Issues = |
| 68 | |
| 69 | * Bad Behavior may be unable to protect cached pages on MediaWiki. |
| 70 | |
| 71 | * When upgrading from version 2.0.19 or prior on MediaWiki and WordPress, |
| 72 | you must remove the old version of Bad Behavior from your system manually |
| 73 | before manually installing the new version. Other platforms are not |
| 74 | affected by this issue. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | * The basic functionality of Bad Behavior on WordPress requires version 1.2 |
| 77 | or later. The management page for WordPress, which allows browsing Bad |
| 78 | Behavior's logs, requires version 2.1 or later. Users of older versions should |
| 79 | use phpMyAdmin to browse Bad Behavior's logs, or upgrade WordPress. |
| 80 | |
| 81 | * On WordPress when using WordPress Advanced Cache (WP-Cache) or WP-Super |
| 82 | Cache, Bad Behavior requires a patch to WP-Cache or WP-Super Cache in order to |
| 83 | protect Cached pages. Bad Behavior cannot protect Super Cached pages. |
| 84 | |
| 85 | Edit the wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php or |
| 86 | wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php file and find the |
| 87 | following two lines at around line 34 (line 56 in WP-Super Cache): |
| 88 | |
| 89 | ` if (! ($meta = unserialize(@file_get_contents($meta_pathname))) ) |
| 90 | return;` |
| 91 | |
| 92 | Immediately after this, insert the following line: |
| 93 | |
| 94 | ` require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/Bad-Behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php');` |
| 95 | |
| 96 | Then visit your site. Everything should work normally, but spammers will |
| 97 | not be able to access your cached pages either. |
| 98 | |
| 99 | * When using Bad Behavior in conjunction with Spam Karma 2, you may see PHP |
| 100 | warnings when Spam Karma 2 displays its internally generated CAPTCHA. This |
| 101 | is a design problem in Spam Karma 2. Contact the author of Spam Karma 2 for |
| 102 | a fix. |
| 103 | |
