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Reducing Disk Load in High-Traffic PHP Applications: Switching from SQLite to Redis for Anti-Crawler Storage
Automated crawlers and scraping bots are a growing problem for modern websites. While search engine bots are useful, many other crawlers generate excessive traffic, scrape content, or overload servers. To help website owners control this type of traffic, we recently released the Anti-Crawler PHP Library by CleanTalk, an open-source tool designed to detect and limit
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Important Update: Changes to Our Frontend Malware Scanner
We are always looking for ways to improve your experience with website security. As such, we will sunset the Frontend Malware Scanner within our plugin on December 1st, 2024. Why the change? Where will this take us? We’re focusing our resources on making our Malware Web Scanner even more powerful! This robust tool scans and…
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How to use Google Fonts WordPress plugin: A Simple Guide
Want to give your WordPress website a professional and stylish look? Google Fonts is the perfect tool to elevate your site’s typography. By adding a wide range of free, high-quality fonts to your website, you can enhance its visual appeal and readability. How to Install the Google Fonts Plugin How to Use the Google Fonts…
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Improved Accuracy in Your Personal Area Widget
We’ve been busy bees making your personal area widget even more helpful. Now you’ll have a clearer picture of how we’re protecting your site from spam. And a special shout-out to those of you who shared your thoughts – your feedback is what helps us make these improvements! We’re excited about these changes because it…
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Security vulnerability in CleanTalk plugins fixed – please update your plugins
There was a security vulnerability, that was discovered in both Anti-Spam (versions <= 6.43.2) and Security & Malware scan (versions <= 2.145). The vulnerability was relevant to some users, who had created an account, but hadn’t inputed the Access Key. The vulnerability was discovered, but wasn’t exploited. We’ve taken immediate action to address this issue…
