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Aside from detecting visitors by their IP address, which I have covered in a previous post, you may also want to be able to detect what the referring website that you visitor has come from is, and react accordingly. I find this particularly useful when people are add a link to one of my websites [...]

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Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there is a legitimate and useful reason for Google Cache but when you have a gaggle of brain-dead idiots trying to circumnavigate their blocked status by using Google’s (out of date) cache and then making threats based on these, the shine is soon taken off what is otherwise an [...]

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There may be many reasons why you would want to block a specific IP address from accessing your WordPress site or any PHP-based website. There are of course, similar methods to block IP addresses in any language-based based web development but WordPress is written in PHP, so that’s what I’m focusing on here. The main [...]

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