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If cforms is freezing or causing the page layout to break, the first thing to check is whether another plugin or your theme is conflicting with cforms. Try temporarily disabling other plugins and switching to a default theme to see if the problem disappears. Also check your browser’s developer console for JavaScript errors, as a script conflict c…[Read more]

That worked perfectly, thank you.

Use this fix here > https://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/loginpress-error-message-with-bps-pro/#post-39252

Go to BPS Root Custom Code.
Delete the old 7.0 php/php.ini handler htaccess code in Custom Code text box #1
Save your changes.
Activate Root Folder BulletProof mode.
Change your PHP server version in your control panel to whichever PHP server version you want to use.
Run the Setup Wizards.

The AutoRestore|Quarantine database option setting must be set to “on” in one of your databases or maybe both – the old and the new database for your staging site. Use phpMyAdmin and do the steps below.

Open phpMyAdmin in your web host control panel.
Click on your database > click on the xx_options database table > click on Search at the top…[Read more]

You can do that from your Google Ads account > https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6328603?hl=en

Ahh I see – ok. I just automatically associated it with a bot probe when I matched up the server log entries with php errors I was getting on a number of sites –  as I haven’t seen this error before.

I’m quite confident that it wouldn’t be anything related to server load – I have very decent resources.

There is no harm in adding wp-settings.php…[Read more]

Yep, I have seen that error before when updating WordPress. It is caused by a delay/latency in the WordPress update process. What the error means is that the constant “ABSPATH” is not seen as loaded yet. This error can also be caused by intermittent server load issues. ie if your server is briefly overloaded then dependent files may not load in…[Read more]

Thanks!

Most bad Bots are just annoying and are not malicious. Bad Bots were a bigger issue many years ago because they caused excessive server load. These days the server load is insignificant because PHP, web servers, etc. have improved so much. So since you are blocking Bots in general it is important to allow the specific good Bots that you want to…[Read more]

Thanks a lot for your replies and insight! it seems that my effort to allow SEO crawlers, like AhrefsBot or SemrushBot, even OAI-SearchBot (which is OpenAI indexer, not for training) , are not something other webmasters do? I say this because allowing them seems to have some risks that are difficult to mitigage. I was under the impression that…[Read more]

My honest opinion – That would take significant effort for very little in return. Or in other words, not really worth the effort.

In order for your checks to work you would have to grab a list of valid IP addresses for Meta, put them into an array and check against that array.

Something like this generally…

If User Agent = X and IP…[Read more]

Got it. So, I will rephrase my question. If I get a visit like this

[403 GET Request: Juli 21, 2026 – 2:23 p.m.]
BPS Pro: 17.6
WP: 7.0.2
Event Code: BFHS – Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer
Solution: N/A – Hacker/Spammer Blocked/Forbidden
REMOTE_ADDR: 57.141.0.17
Host Name: 57.141.0.17
SERVER_PROTOCOL:…[Read more]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45836233/ptr-record-is-confusing

Yes, it is relatively simple to create reverse DNS checking code using PHP code, but here are the pitfalls. The IP address you are using to check with could belong to an innocent web host who is hosting a malicious person or what is more common is the IP address you are using to…[Read more]

thanks for the htaccess file, I will take a look at it