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Charle97,

Thanks I read the bottrap article on kloth you suggested. My site is still being hit constantly although the comment spam has stopped.

I am working on a backup copy of my .htaccess (and I have one “clean” in case I need to revert to it.

I am unclear where to insert that paragraph suggested in Method 2 in the article.

My .htaccess file starts with

#BEGIN WordPress
<ifModlule mod_rewrite.c>

Then there’s a long list of commands that begin with Rewrite or Rewrite Rule

Finally it ends with
</IfModule>

#END WordPress

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Where do I put the following block … which I will customize with IPs for the bad bots that are hitting my site?

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “Indy Library” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “Internet Explore 5.x” bad_bot
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr “195\.154\.174\.[0-9]+” bad_bot
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr “211\.101\.[45]\.[0-9]+” bad_bot
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=bad_bot

I’m sorry, I don’t have programming experience so this is new to me. But I can cut, paste and customize if I know what and where to insert it.

Thank you very much for your help.

I’ve got bad behavior, akismet and spamkarma2 installed and I’m still getting about a hit a minute – I’d love to be able to turn these bots away to decrease my bandwidth usage and get realistic stats on # of non-spam visitors.

I appreciate the guidance in getting those installed.

I’ll ask my original question again in the hope that maybe there’s an answer out there. Where do I paste the block included between <Limit GET> and </Limit> when I edit the .htaccess file. I know the bad bot IPs, I just want to be invisible to them so they won’t keep sucking my bandwidth.

Thank you Charle97 and samboll.
I unzipped and installed the bad behavior folder on my server, in the plugins folder, and noticed that after I did, that I neglected to edit the bad behavior/bad-behavior-wordpress.php file as described here:

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/installing-and-using-bad-behavior/on-wordpress/

The plug-in showed up in my plugin panel and was successfully activated. Do I need to go back and edit that php file and reinstall? Will the plugin work if I don’t? I really don’t want to do anything that’s going to mess up my wp installation.

Your suggestions are very appreciated. Thanks again.

I had been looking at the posts in Safari, so I went over to Firefox and the strange boxes showed up in the entry, so I was able to delete them. Now the feed (including both of the fixed entries) validates! Thanks so much for your patience. I sure wish I know how they got there in the first place. Isn’t it funny that the feed works even with these glitches in it for most people, but NOT for LJ. Case solved!
Karen

OK I published the two bad posts back into the feed. Here is the code for my posting (after dashed line)
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<img src=”http://www.karenwinters.com/blogimages/uclamug3.jpg&#8221; width=400/>
I’ll be the first to admit that this is not an entirely new response to the challenge. It’s a reworking of an impressionistic painting I did of my old college mug earlier this year (see below). What I chose to do was to take a second look at the composition and to see if I could improve upon it, or at the very least, to try something different with it and not make it worse.

First, I cropped it so it wasn’t just floating in space. To create more drama I darkened the background overall using complementary hues and contrasting values. I changed the table surface to a curve instead of a flat surface to repeat the curves of the object, and I reserved a little bit of white around the top of the mug to suggest a shininess and a glow. I also added some transparent warmer color to the curved cylinder of the mug to tie it together with the warmer setting and created more of a form shadow on the curve. I can see at least a dozen other things I could do to fix it, but that time would probably be better spent starting from scratch on something new, which I intend to do. It was originally painted in Corel Painter, but the revisions were done in Photoshop.

Oh, and in spite of yesterday’s ignominious defeat … go Bruins. We love you anyway.

<img src=”http://www.karenwinters.com/blogimages/uclamug-march05.jpg&#8221; width=100/>

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And the following is the code from the other problem post, the one with the drawing of the old man:

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<img src=”http://www.karenwinters.com/blogimages/elderly-dip-pen.jpg&#8221; width=350/>

With all the talk of dip pens recently, I decided to try my hand at something with an old world feeling. It’s not a copy of any drawing in particular, just an experiment “in the style of …” using a photo from a vintage book. Walnut ink and white ink on a blue-ish paper background.

I’m trying to change my way of thinking about drawings as being successful or not. Sometimes I play it safe with something I know how to do and although I may like the outcome, I haven’t really learned much. On other occasions, like this one, the outcome may not be as satisfactory but I feel like I’ve learned a lot in the process, so I’d consider it a success. It’s all in how you look at it … goal or process.
Today, I vote for process.
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That’s all there is in the entry boxes of each. I’d kind of hate to lose those posts because i got some really nice feedback on them. I hope there’s some way to save them without making the feed invalid for LJ.
Thanks again, K.

OK, I put the problematic post onto draft, and ran it through the validator … and it identified the subsequent post as problematic also. So I put that one on draft as well and now it validates. Is there any way that I can examine those two old posts to find out what was wrong about them (something with CDATA huh?) so that I can avoid this issue in the future? Miklb and Firas I am very grateful for your suggestions in this troubleshooting process.