Title: Persistent Red Circle Notification
Last modified: December 14, 2025

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# Persistent Red Circle Notification

 *  Resolved [Fields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordlion/)
 * (@wordlion)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-red-circle-notification/)
 * Red Circles on my lefthand dashboard nav are for actionable situations, not block
   counts, which happen constantly.
 * Have a couple three dozen plugins, _only you are doing this_, and we cannot find
   any way to mute or hide these which is important as they are not actionable but
   informational. 
   So far very impressed with this application, but we absolutely
   can’t have unactionable red alert noise that distracts us all day and for which
   we do not have agency over our workspace. Pardon if we missed the way to manage
   this but have researched over an hour to no avail and seek support.Thank you

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 *  Plugin Author [IniLerm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inilerm/)
 * (@inilerm)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-red-circle-notification/#post-18755729)
 * Hi [@wordlion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordlion/),
 * Thank you for your feedback! You make a very valid point about UX design: red
   indicators usually signal that an action is required, whereas in our case, it’s
   just a status report (“Threats blocked”).
 * We appreciate the suggestion and will definitely consider adding an option to
   toggle these badges in a future update (likely v8.7).
 * **Immediate Solution:**
   In the meantime, you can regain control of your workspace
   by adding this small snippet to your theme’s functions.php file (or using a Code
   Snippets plugin). It simply hides the red notification bubbles for this plugin:
   codePHP
 *     ```wp-block-code
       add_action('admin_head', 'advaipbl_hide_menu_badges');
   
       function advaipbl_hide_menu_badges() {
           echo '<style>
           #toplevel_page_advaipbl_settings_page .awaiting-mod,
           #toplevel_page_advaipbl_settings_page .update-plugins {
               display: none !important;
           }
           </style>';
       }
       ```
   
 * This will instantly remove the “noise” while keeping the protection active in
   the background.
 * Thanks for helping us improve the interface!
 * Best regards,
 *  Thread Starter [Fields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordlion/)
 * (@wordlion)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-red-circle-notification/#post-18755737)
 * An answer within the hour on a Sunday is super impressive. 
   Thank you all the
   more for understanding and endeavoring to provide more user control. The ai copyright
   usage disaster–and backed by the executive and judicial branch–means that it 
   can make zero sense for many types of creators to provide information online.
   Have been forced to take down years of work as the wretched creeps in ai have
   zero right to any of it.Am deep into working on ways to mitigate and you are 
   very much on a top tier track. Rooting for you big time. Thank you.
 *  Plugin Author [IniLerm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inilerm/)
 * (@inilerm)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-red-circle-notification/#post-18755738)
 * Hi [@wordlion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordlion/),
 * Thank you so much for your kind words! I am really glad the solution worked for
   you.
 * I completely understand your frustration regarding AI scraping and content protection.
   That battle is actually one of the main reasons I continue to develop this plugin—
   to give creators the agency to decide who (or what) gets to access their work.
 * If you haven’t already, I highly recommend checking the **Blocking Rules > User
   Agents** tab. The default blocklist includes many of the major AI scrapers (like
   GPTBot, CCBot, ClaudeBot, and Bytespider). You can enforce those blocks to help
   keep your content safe from unauthorized training data collection.
 * Thanks again for your support and for rooting for us!
 * Best regards,
 *  Thread Starter [Fields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordlion/)
 * (@wordlion)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-red-circle-notification/#post-18755739)
 * Thank you also for the code, very generous. I’d seen some of that on forums but
   elected to go with ublock element blocker so as to be able to toggle with ease,
   but yet concerned that important notes may be missed. In any case, free plugins
   do deserve promotional opportunity and yet so many of them do it so dumbly and
   intrusively that one becomes plenty picky about controlling the workspace. There
   are ways to strike a balance.
 *  Plugin Author [IniLerm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inilerm/)
 * (@inilerm)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-red-circle-notification/#post-18755760)
 *     ```wp-block-code
       # === Vulnerability Scanners & Pentesting Tools ===AcunetixArachniBurpDirbDirBusterFeroxbusterGo-http-clientHavijNessusNiktoNmapNetsparkerOpenVASPhoton/1.0sqlmapVegaWfuzzWhatWebWPScanWPSecZAP/masscanScanNGPressVulnPostmanRuntimeCensysInspectExpanseinternet-measurementJSScanner/paloaltonetworks# === Generic Bots & Scripting Libraries ===curlHTTrackJava/okhttpperlphp/Pythonpython-requestsScrapywgetlibwwwruby# === Aggressive Scrapers & Black Hat SEO Bots ===#AhrefsBotBytespidercontabotdataproviderDigExtDotBotEmailCollectorExtractorProMegaIndex#MJ12botSemrushBotWebCollectorWebCopierAliyunSecBotAwarioBotBW/#GoogleOtherIonCrawlISSCyberRiskCrawler# === Spam, Low-Quality AI & Comment Bots ===Applebot-ExtendedClaudeBotDiffbotFacebookBotFriendlyCrawler#Google-ExtendedImagesiftBotImage2dataset#Meta-ExternalAgentomgiliTimpibotomgilibotAcoonBot/anthropic-aiBoardReaderCCBotChatGPT-UserClaude-WebDataForSeoBotGPTBotPerplexityBotpetalbot#YandexBotZmEu# === Aggressive Regional Crawlers (optional) ===BaiduspiderBaiduspider-imageBaiduspider-newsBarkrowlermsnbot-mediaSeznamBotSogouYisouSpiderBLEXBotnews-pleaseOrbbotpeer39_crawlerVelenPublicWebCrawler#wp_is_mobileZoominfobot# === Suspicious or Malformed User-Agents ===Dalvik/morfeusShellBotzgrabChrome/45Mozilla/4.0EmptyMozlilaGRequests/
       ```
   
 * Common User-Agent Suggestions to Block
   You can copy and paste in Blocking Rules
   > User Agents > Blocked User-Agents List
 * More info [https://advaipbl.com/bots-you-should-block-to-protect-your-content/](https://advaipbl.com/bots-you-should-block-to-protect-your-content/)
 *  Thread Starter [Fields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordlion/)
 * (@wordlion)
 * [4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-red-circle-notification/#post-18806408)
 * Multiple updates and it looks like you have chosen to keep all this red alert
   intensity. On the plugin page alone I see:
    1. Red bubble by security on the left
    2. Red bubble by IP management on the left
    3. Red bubble at the IP management on the top
    4. Red bubble on live attack map
 * and all four red bubble show the same figure. The very same and nothing else.
 * Do you consider this helpful and wise? Four red bubbles all with the same information?
   I do not. At all.
 * While your blocks are enormously welcome, as they are from all plugins we use
   to protect and serve out work, I do not tally count them as a daily way of life
   on my dashboard and navigation. I don’t get a dopamine hit when I reach a round
   number, nor throw a party when a special piece of numerology has its moment in
   the sun. I know how to check when I want, i.e. go to the plugin page and review,
   but I have to chosen to block things I couldn’t care less about and would ninety-
   eight percent of the time rather not even be distracted by in any way. That is
   the point of blocking. Not to be alerted or concerned each time a weasel scraper
   drops by because that is constant. Does a moth trap update you with red indicator
   of moths caught? Do you want a red bubble on your phone for every spoof call 
   block?
 * No. Of course not. Out of sight out of mind get work done with minimal distraction
   and peace of mind.
 * Four bubbles all with the same total block count. What value–let alone actionable
   value–does a total over weeks, months, years provide? Yes, you are not like the
   loser plugins elementor, zero spam, and tons other long deleted ones that hijack
   dashboards and act in long tradition with hamhanded human clueless tech marketers
   since the dawn of digits, but wow. Where in life do you desire four RED alerts
   all with the same info? A car? A plane? A home security system? Nothing proceeds
   this way my friends, or rather, just one thing. Y’all.
 * So having failed to instill a common sense, humanist approach to your truly exceptional
   application, I turn to code. Yet appears this “snippet” you provided will then
   wipe them all out?
 * So our choice is up to four–so far–of the same or none, you offer?
 * Thank you.

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