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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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Two-Factor Authentication for WordPress
CleanTalk has launched Two-Factor Authentication for WordPress admin accounts that will improve your website security and make it safer, if not impossible, for hackers to breach your WordPress account. Two-Factor Authentication works via e-mail. It makes the Two-Factor Authentication more reliable. The reason is that if an intruder knows your password they also need to…
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Security issue in the Drupal plugin
Hello! We want to notify a security issue in the Drupal plugin. https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2019-010 We are working on this and after a couple of hours, a new release will be ready. Update The issue depends on the option “SpamFireWall”. We have fixed that and send the new version to the Drupal Team for approval. While they…
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CleanTalk Anti-Spam with White Label mode
Warning! The instruction is out-of-date. The current guide can be found here. We have developed the White label mode to make usage of the service for hosting more comfortable and it virtually eliminates the interaction between CleanTalk and hosting clients. This option is available only for WordPress MultiSite. It also allows changing logos, links to…
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How to Stop Profanity and Obscene Words on Your Website
CleanTalk makes possible to prevent comments and messages with obscene words to appear on your website. Stop-Words Option allows blocking comments which contain words and phrases from your stop-word list. Such comments will be held for moderation. Stop-Words Option could be enabled for comments and forum posts. How Stop-Words Work If you activated Stop-Words the…