Hello,

I’m using your excellent plugin and it has been very helpful. However, I am facing two issues:

1. When I check the dashboard, it accurately distinguishes between human and bot traffic. However, for blocked IPs, the reason shown is: “Request blocked JavaScript Required, Fake Browser Accessing Restricted Content,” but the status is marked as “Flagged: 200,” meaning the request is passing through (200) instead of being blocked (403). This is confirmed in the server logs as well. Is it possible to ensure that requests from disallowed sources are blocked on the first attempt?
2. The second issue is that when checking the dashboard, the CPU usage reaches 100%, causing significant load. I am using a somewhat older PC with a Core(TM) i7-6700 (Windows 11 Pro) environment.

Can you help me lower the CPU usage to reduce the load?

I understand that some obscure bots may need to be sorted out manually, but I’m surprised to see Google and Yandex not being classified as known bots automatically. I checked the IPs and they are legit, not fakes. Shouldn’t these be on the list of legitimate bots?

Don’t really care about Yandex, but obviously Google is THE most important bot not to accidentally block.

We are getting the “Request blocked by BitFire” HTML code output when trying to run commands like wp plugin install hello-dolly – how can we make an exception for WP CLI?

The error message has a reference ID in it, but I’m not sure what to do with that – there’s no clickable button because we’re on the command line not in a browser and there’s no URL to visit that I can see in the code – seems to be generated by javascript whatever the Request Review button does.

I found a notice in my php log. any chance you can fix this?

file_get_contents(/var/www/wordpress/.user.ini): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory

/var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bitfire/src/server.php:496

Tried to install BitFire and got this message:

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

I can’t get past this error. Let me know what you think.