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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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CleanTalk prevents receiving spam through your SmartForms forms
If you prefer to use Smart Forms Contact Form, always be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn how CleanTalk protects your SmartForms contact forms from spam. Once CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website. It may…
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WordPress Security Audit: 8 Steps For Securing WordPress Website
One of the most important things about protecting your website from hackers is understanding that one-time setting the security settings for your site is not enough. Taking care of your website protection is a permanent process like advertising or helping your clients with their issues. Security tools for your website become stronger and more progressive…
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Changes in the spam_check() API method
In the current version, the API spam_check provides additional parameters: frequency_time_10m – 10 minutes activityfrequency_time_1h – 1 hour activityfrequency_time_24h – 24 hours activity Learn more about all parameters:https://cleantalk.org/help/api-spam-check#response-explanation These parameters show the total activity for the scanned entry, both spam and non-spam activity. The practice has shown that these parameters are not effective and are…
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CleanTalk and Follow.it Subscription Form compatibility
In case you use both CleanTalk Anti-Spam and Follow.it Subscription Form simultaneously it becomes impossible to protect this form. It happens because the form itself is external and the data doesn’t go to the site itself, but is sent to an external resource and will not be possible to check it. So in order to…
