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StopBadBots 11.29

Does StopBadBots work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-05-26 17:04:05 UTC.

Summary

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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 → Fail2ban Monitor

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	0.322 s	0.701 s	+0.379 s	3.51 MiB	4.23 MiB	+ 745.95 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.218 s	0.317 s	+0.099 s	3.57 MiB	3.81 MiB	+ 249.29 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.846 s	1.032 s	+0.186 s	6.06 MiB	6.34 MiB	+ 285.02 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.773 s	0.375 s	-0.398 s	3.52 MiB	3.75 MiB	+ 230.09 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.230 s	0.294 s	+0.064 s	3.5 MiB	3.73 MiB	+ 232.3 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.279 s	0.300 s	+0.021 s	3.49 MiB	3.73 MiB	+ 240.49 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.206 s	0.510 s	+0.304 s	3.5 MiB	3.75 MiB	+ 251.26 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.764 s	0.676 s	-0.088 s	6.05 MiB	6.26 MiB	+ 216.55 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.468 s	0.458 s	-0.010 s	3.5 MiB	3.73 MiB	+ 229.42 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.242 s	0.273 s	+0.031 s	3.52 MiB	3.75 MiB	+ 228.45 KiB
/	0.317 s	0.248 s	-0.069 s	3.5 MiB	3.55 MiB	+ 50.07 KiB
Average	0.424 s	0.471 s	+0.047 s	3.98 MiB	4.24 MiB	+ 268.99 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	48.8%	16,384	5,152	67
	PO File	25.5%	8,557	3,294	6
	JavaScript	20.8%	6,981	1,019	20
	CSS	5.0%	1,671	128	9
Total			33,593	9,593	102

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 9

• wp_sbb_badips
• wp_sbb_badref
• wp_sbb_blacklist
• wp_sbb_fingerprint
• wp_sbb_http_tools
• wp_sbb_stats
• wp_sbb_visitorslog
• wp_stopbadbots_fail2ban_logs
• 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

[26-May-2025 17:04:33 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
[26-May-2025 17:04:47 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_replace(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($subject) of type array|string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/stopbadbots/includes/visits_stats/analytics-pages.php on line 90
[26-May-2025 17:04:47 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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