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StopBadBots 11.18

Does StopBadBots work with WordPress 6.7.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-01-30 17:20:05 UTC.

Summary

Pages 20

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Stop Bad Bots

Stop Bad Bots → Dashboard

Stop Bad Bots → Notifications

Stop Bad Bots → Debug Info

Stop Bad Bots → More Tools

Stop Bad Bots → Settings

Stop Bad Bots → Bad Bots Table

Stop Bad Bots → Bad IPs Table

Stop Bad Bots → Bad Referer Table

Stop Bad Bots → Add Bad Bot to Table

Stop Bad Bots → Add Bad IP to Table

Stop Bad Bots → Add Bad Referer to Table

Stop Bad Bots → Visits Log

Stop Bad Bots → Visits Analytics

Stop Bad Bots → Go Pro

Stop Bad Bots → More Tools Same Author

Installing New Plugin

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.532 s	0.792 s	+0.260 s	3.48 MiB	4.06 MiB	+ 597.06 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.211 s	0.341 s	+0.130 s	3.54 MiB	3.77 MiB	+ 231.32 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.790 s	1.602 s	+0.812 s	5.92 MiB	6.16 MiB	+ 244 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.654 s	0.455 s	-0.199 s	3.49 MiB	3.71 MiB	+ 224.01 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.220 s	0.290 s	+0.070 s	3.47 MiB	3.69 MiB	+ 226.22 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.274 s	0.509 s	+0.235 s	3.46 MiB	3.69 MiB	+ 234.41 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.178 s	0.296 s	+0.118 s	3.47 MiB	3.71 MiB	+ 245.18 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.032 s	1.137 s	+0.105 s	5.92 MiB	6.15 MiB	+ 239.53 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.286 s	0.468 s	+0.182 s	3.47 MiB	3.69 MiB	+ 223.34 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.253 s	0.275 s	+0.022 s	3.49 MiB	3.71 MiB	+ 222.38 KiB
/	0.386 s	0.263 s	-0.123 s	3.47 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 46.05 KiB
Average	0.438 s	0.584 s	+0.147 s	3.93 MiB	4.17 MiB	+ 248.5 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	43.8%	14,373	4,556	63
	PO File	29.8%	9,762	4,047	6
	JavaScript	21.3%	6,979	1,017	20
	CSS	5.1%	1,670	128	9
Total			32,784	9,748	98

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Database Tables 8

• wp_sbb_badips
• wp_sbb_badref
• wp_sbb_blacklist
• wp_sbb_fingerprint
• wp_sbb_http_tools
• wp_sbb_stats
• wp_sbb_visitorslog
• wp_wptools_page_load_times

Options wp_options 20

• bill_minozzi_pre_checkup_dismissed
• bill_minozzi_pre_checkup_finished
• chat_messages
• stop_bad_bots_network
• stopbadbots_bill_show_warnings
• stopbadbots_block_false_google
• stopbadbots_firewall
• stopbadbots_go_pro_hide
• stopbadbots_http_tools
• stopbadbots_installed
• stopbadbots_last_checked
• stopbadbots_last_checked2
• stopbadbots_last_feedback
• stopbadbots_my_blacklist
• stopbadbots_my_email_to
• stopbadbots_my_radio_report_all_visits
• stopbadbots_string_whitelist
• stopbadbots_tables_empty
• stopbadbots_version
• stopbadbots_was_activated

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "stopbadbots-dashboard": {
            "title": "Stop Bad Bots Activities",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 3 lines

[30-Jan-2025 17:20:44 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 36
[30-Jan-2025 17:20:57 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_replace(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($subject) of type array|string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/stopbadbots/includes/visits_stats/analytics-pages.php on line 90
[30-Jan-2025 17:20:57 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_replace(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($subject) of type array|string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/stopbadbots/includes/visits_stats/analytics-referer.php on line 131

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