if-so adds a wp-admin link in the server’s access logs for every visitor

  • Hello there,

    I always look in the server’s access logs and find that the server registers a wp-admin link in its logs for every visitor, and the plugin is responsible for this.

    Maybe this is the script the plugin adds to the source code that makes this happens?

    <script id='if-so-js-before'>
    var nonce = "2320fe5155";
    var ajaxurl = "https://website.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php";
    var ifso_page_url = "https://website.com/example-path";
    var isAnalyticsOn = true;
    var isPageVisitedOn = 0;
    var isVisitCountEnabled = 1;
    var referrer_for_pageload = document.referrer;
</script>

    Is it possible to not make the plugin do this, as it’s getting really annoying to tell if a visitor is a bot trying to log in to the site, or if it’s a human.

    Thank you.

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  • Hi @jawadzizo,

    Can you please elaborate on what you mean by “server registers a wp-admin link in its logs for every visitor”? Do you mean there’s an extra request to the admin side of your site for each front-end request?

    If yes, and if you are using the page caching compatibility, this is the intended behavior (for pages that contain If-So triggers).

    Thread Starter jawad

    (@jawadzizo)

    Yes, that’s what I meant (there’s an extra request to the admin side of your site for each front-end request), I just didn’t know how to write it.

    I’m not using any caching plugin or server caching, and the page caching compatibility is unchecked.

    Thanks for clarifying.

    Please send us the relevant part of the log you mentioned.

    Thread Starter jawad

    (@jawadzizo)

    Hi IfSo team,

    Here is an example log from the server, I just entered the site homepage and this is what the server logs:

    2022-10-24 13:05:11 ipaddress – – [24/Oct/2022:13:05:11 +0000] “GET / 2.0” 200 40896 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Safari/537.36”

    2022-10-24 13:05:12 ipaddress – – [24/Oct/2022:13:05:12 +0000] “POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php 2.0” 200 20 “https://website.com/&#8221; “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Safari/537.36”

    As you can see, the server logs 2 requests instead of just one that was made to the homepage.

    Hi Jawad,

    Please send us FTP and WordPress credentials to the email [email protected], we will take a look.

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