Comments on: Guarding WordPress Against Hacker URL Requests

By: Tatianna

Tatianna — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 06:50:35 +0000

I am interested put me down , Thank you John

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:40:27 +0000

Hi Tatianna. Yes, it’s not good news and those people who ruin our sites really suck.

Tatianna, being that you’re new to blogging, I have a new membership site I am working on which will showcase a ton of videos showing you WordPress videos, blogging videos, and a ton more. Should I put your email list down on a list to contact once it’s done?

Not sure if you’d be interested in that but if so, let me know.

By: Tatianna

Tatianna — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:50:20 +0000

Thank you John,

I will try it. I am very new to wordpress and blogging, so I am pretty afraid to experiment with new plugins. But if you say it works, I will download it. I have been reading so many horror stories about hackers that I have been shaking in my sleep. I read your story as well about your’ wife’s blog being broken inn to, I don’t even imagine the stress you guys had to go through. Thank you again, for all of your tutorials.
Tatianna

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:18:10 +0000

Hi Tatianna.

It doesn’t say that’s it’s not necessarily compatible with the latest version of WordPress, it just says that it’s compatible up to 3.0.5 – which means the plugin author just hasn’t updated the plugin page.

I run that plugin on my blogs which have the latest version of WordPress and I’ve seen no problems with it. It should be safe to use.

By: Tatianna

Tatianna — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:59:11 +0000

Hi, I know it’s 2011 but I was wondering if I can still download the plug in and if it will work. I found it thorough my plugins section, but it says that it’s not compatable with current version of wordpress. What should I do?

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:56:01 +0000

Thanks John
Much appreciated.

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:50:28 +0000

@Keith – yep, you’re good to go to deactivate and delete the version you have and then upload and activate the latest version plugin.

Hint: To find it easily, go to Plugins -> Add New in your blog’s sidebar and search for BBQ.

That should bring it up quick.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:42:41 +0000

John
When I created the plugin as shown above, I didn’t call it “Block Bad Queries”

I’m guessing that this plugin does not create any database tables so I can simply delete the one I created and upload Jeff’s.

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:30:02 +0000

Hi Keith… yep it is and I definitely gave him full credit for the plugin in the post above and also in WordPress Defender.

I made sure to ask him if first if I could include it in WordPress Defender.

Yeah Anysia (above) mentioned it, too. After this comment I’ll log in and update the post.

Thanks for spotting it.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:30:46 +0000

Hi
Just looked at WordPress plugins repository – presumably the plugin is the “Block Bad Queries (BBQ)” by Jeff Starr.