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WP referrer spam blacklist (Ghost Spam in Google Analytics)

WordPress plugin to fight with referrer spam. List based on https://github.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-list

by Rolands Umbrovskis · github.com/rolandinsh/wp_referrer_spam_blocklist · website

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Install

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

wp plugin install https://github.com/rolandinsh/wp_referrer_spam_blocklist/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

From the readme

WordPress referrer spam blacklist plugin WordPress plugin to fight with more than 2040+ referrer spammers (like semalt, buttons-for-website and many more). Via my LinkedIN post: Few months ago I started to collect referral spam pages in private file un bitbucket.org. Problem was that I did not know all spammers. Then, few weeks ago, I found that Matomo (Open source analytics) started their own "project", and they did the same thing I did - collected referral spam sites to block them from Your website. On my own server I do that at server level, but some of my clients have hosting, where You can not edit server settings. This week I came up with another solution - Wordpress plugin "WP referrer spam blacklist". I will update list every week from Matomo's community-contributed list of spammers. If You have WordPress site and no knowledge about or access to server settings, I made that for You! No need for configuration! NO auto update, as we see that as possible as security hole. Plugin in background redirects referral spammer to blank page ( about:blank ). Redirect link can be altered via filter wpreferralblockredirecturi. Plugin is for sites that can't edit their .htaccess

Read the full README on GitHub →

Releases

TagPublished
1.3.0 Dec 27, 2020
1.2.202012211 Dec 27, 2020
1.2.201801281 Jan 28, 2018
1.2.201707101 Jul 9, 2017
1.2.201705311 May 31, 2017
1.2.201610241 Jan 18, 2017
1.2.201610061 Oct 6, 2016
1.2.201610051 Oct 5, 2016
1.2.201609061 Sep 5, 2016
1.2.201607041 Jul 4, 2016
1.2.201606241 Jun 24, 2016
1.2.201605231 Jun 24, 2016

These releases are tags only. The author does not attach a packaged zip, so there are no download counts to report.