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hongaar / semalt-blocker

:no_entry: Self-updating PHP library which blocks referral spam from ruining your website statistics
http://nabble.nl/semalt/
MIT License
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Non-coder instructions & integration with WordPress #6

Closed tylerregas closed 9 years ago

tylerregas commented 9 years ago

It would be a huge help if you could write up instructions for people who are not programmers so that we might use your code in WordPress installations. Just a little bit about where best to place the code and how it works from the standpoint of a layperson :) Thanks! -TC

hongaar commented 9 years ago

I think the best and easiest way to use this library in a WP install is through a plugin, as this will (hopefully) keep the blacklist updated for you. You could use a recently updated plugin from this results page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=semalt

To use this library in WP without using a plugin, I'd recommend copying both domains/blocked and compact/semaltblocker.php to a new directory [TEMPLATEDIR]/semalt-blocker and then adding these lines to your functions.php:

require "semalt-blocker/semaltblocker.php";
\Nabble\Semalt::block();

But please keep in mind this library is intentionally written for programmers, and the above method of editing your functions.php should only be used if you're comfortable with editing and maintaining code.