Rating: 3 stars
The free version is very good. It is more fun than processing your server logs on command line.
The Pro version is difficult to work with because it doesn’t have a search on the Tower. It also over whitelist many IPs that can be bad bots. I caught already a couple in less than one day. Also you cannot block useragents if they come under a proxy, the best you can do is copy and paste to something else that can block any useragent, like the excellent BBQ Pro. Manage on Tower sends you to the Tower but not the specific item, which you can’t find because no search on Tower.
But free version is very very good.
Rating: 5 stars
I use this plugin daily – it works FLAWLESSLY!
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This is an awesome plugin, and like all Jeff’s plugins, beautifully crafted. But I do agree that a version that works with full-page caching would be awesome—as things stand, I can’t use it with my site. But it fulfills a big need, so I am looking forward to Jeff figuring out how to make this possible ??
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?I bought the multi-site pro version. I think that Banhammer should be improved to be fully compatible with all cache plugins. Everybody use cache plugins for wordpress.
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Awesome plugin – easy to use. Does what it is supposed to. I can recommend it!
I’m using this plugin like so:
See a list of all the ip’s visiting with flags that shows me what country they come from. I also see which internal pages they visit on my site.
Then I either click the IP (right from the plugins list) to get more info about it, or I search the IP on abuseipdb to make sure it’s a bad IP.
Then i click ONE button: BANHAMMER.
And now, 0 requests from that ip in the future. Just how I like it.
Perfect plugin from a well known developer in the wordpress community.
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Can′t detect real IP like Wordfence. Blocking all CF and site nobody can′t visit…
Last CF IP blocked: 172.68.51.84
Rating: 3 stars
It remains to fix some bugs of the free version like the pro version due to the following bug:
Warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, function ‘banhammer_remove_query_args’ not found or invalid function name in /home/lesnoticiesdense/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 303
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I bought the multi-site pro version because I wanted to keep spammers from registering on my websites. But it simply wasn’t usable by me because of its configuration. To the programmer’s credit, he issued a prompt refund.
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I’ve purchased several of Jeff’s plugins and have left the same review as the one below for the other plugins. What I have to say about each plugin and Jeff is the same.
In moving away from an all-encompassing WP security plugin, I did quite a bit of research into the available options regarding site security and came across BBQ Pro and the other premium and freemium plugins by Jeff Star.
Aside from it being an excellent plugin that does exactly what is sets out to do, and well, Jeff Star is star (pun not intended) in his field and provides first-rate customer service.
To clear up some issues I was having with his security plugins – they were related to my lack of understanding, not to the plugins themselves – Jeff called me and clarified all my doubts (this was an international call!).
Moreover, the security-related articles on his site, as well as on other, have helped further secure our site and gain a greater understanding of WP security as a whole and on the “atomic” level.
Thank you Jeff for the great plugins, articles, and support!
Cheers!
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This is one of my go-to security extensions. All of the developer’s products (BBQ and Blackhole) that I have used are 1) easy to set-up, 2) very powerful, 3) perform as advertised, and 4) have an ounce of humor.
I can see how a novice user could be overwhelmed with his products at first. This particular plug-in gives you all the information on any site visitor. I can easily identify unscrupulous users and bots. If you find any of the reported info overwhelming, please spend some time to understand it, your admin life will become much easier.
I use the Pro version of all the above plug-ins.
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Some IS providers do some checking also and the IP adress of the provider fills the list. It should be possible to suspress the recording of some IP adresses. I can’t see what’s really happening, too much data.
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Perfecto!
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Jeff is really helpful and the support of his plugins is excellent. He always replied my emails quite fast and took a lot of time to elaborate detailed answers.
Now I use the pro version of this plugin but I wanted to leave an honest rating for the free version too.
I discused with him about the flush trigger, asked about the login/admin protection areas and cleared some issues on the target key.
Its a YES for me.
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Because the info on this plugin says nothing about it, I feel obligated to do so:
It does NOT work on MultiSite, unfortunately ??
It looked very promising, the author announcing it on his own website with the words “waaay too much fun”. And I can imagine it is indeed, but not if you are running a multisite installation and find out your site has had no protection whatsoever, since installing this plugin.
So, in this case: no, it’s not waaaay too much fun, unfortunately…
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Very easy to use and works very well.
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Just found your G+ post by chance yesterday,
and today I already need axactly the functionality you provided!
Thank you very much and all the best!
Towards perfection, mtness.
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Jeff consistently delivers quality plugins. From customizable forms to firewalls to bot control, they are must use plugins for your WP site. Now we have the BanHammer. This plugin is a very easy way to immediately control user access to your site without taking the time to restrict IPs through other methods like htaccess. It appears to be similar to banning bots through Blackhole, but is user directed instead of bot directed. I can’t wait to see what BanHammer Pro features next!
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