{"id":7520,"date":"2009-12-18T14:33:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T14:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins-wp\/replytocom-redirector\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T19:11:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T19:11:40","slug":"replytocom-redirector","status":"closed","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/oci.wordpress.org\/plugins\/replytocom-redirector\/","author":1927074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"version":"1.0","stable_tag":"1.0","tested":"2.9.2","requires":"2.7","requires_php":"","requires_plugins":"","header_name":"Replytocom Redirector","header_author":"Team Transposh","header_description":"","assets_banners_color":"","last_updated":"2009-12-18 19:11:40","external_support_url":"","external_repository_url":"","donate_link":"http:\/\/transposh.org\/donate\/","header_plugin_uri":"http:\/\/transposh.org\/","header_author_uri":"http:\/\/transposh.org\/","rating":0,"author_block_rating":0,"active_installs":30,"downloads":3308,"num_ratings":0,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"author_block_count":0,"sections":["description","installation","faq","changelog"],"tags":[],"upgrade_notice":[],"ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":0},"assets_icons":[],"assets_banners":[],"assets_blueprints":{},"all_blocks":[],"tagged_versions":["1.0"],"block_files":[],"assets_screenshots":[],"screenshots":[]},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[53529,53528,53527],"plugin_category":[],"plugin_contributors":[78730],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-7520","plugin","type-plugin","status-closed","hentry","plugin_tags-bad-robots","plugin_tags-bandwidth-saving","plugin_tags-replytocom","plugin_contributors-oferwald","plugin_committers-oferwald"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/replytocom-redirector.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[],"raw_content":"<!--section=description-->\n<p>The Replytocom redirector is a really simple plugin coming to solve the problem of silly bots that scan the replytocom urls in a wordpress blog\nthose urls have no value whatsoever for a bot as they contain duplicate content. even so - the bots keep scanning and scanning.\nIn just under 9 months on our site we have had over 200,000 such requests, and it is not even a big site.Duplicate this by a minimal size of 10k\nof html code sent to the bot, and it seems like at least 2Gbyte of traffic was wasted for this nonsense.<\/p>\n\n<p>This plugin solves the problem by simply redirecting such bots to the correct url, saving cpu, network resources and little bunnies.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you ever encountered this and wanted to solve this, invest two minutes of your life and install this.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Upload the plugin to the <code>\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> directory<\/li>\n<li>Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress<\/li>\n<li>No settings, no nothing - you are good to go<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt>Should I install this?<\/dt>\n<dd><p>If you see those requests in your log and this annoys you, than what the hack. If not, don't.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt>Who are the worst offenders?<\/dt>\n<dd><p>For us atleast:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Yeti\/1.0 (NHN Corp.; http:\/\/help.naver.com\/robots\/)<\/li>\n<li>Baiduspider+(+http:\/\/www.baidu.com\/search\/spider.htm)<\/li>\n<li>Yandex\/1.01.001 (compatible; Win16; I)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>There are others, but not so annoyingly, seems like google is not really affected by this, although a search for replytocom returns too many results\nso maybe its just us.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt>How can I see its working<\/dt>\n<dd><p>Look at your logs, grep replytocom and see that spiders get a 301 result<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt>Something is wrong<\/dt>\n<dd><p>Just let us know on the forums here, or on our site<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt>There are other ways<\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes, you can probably do this in htaccess and other ways, but this is a simple and targeted solution for this simple problem<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt>I have an idea<\/dt>\n<dd><p>Again, just let us know<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt>How is this connected to transposh?<\/dt>\n<dd><p>Not by much, we saw this, wanted to solve it - so here it is, you are always welcomed to try transposh out at <a href=\"http:\/\/transposh.org\" title=\"transposh website\">transposh site<\/a><\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>2009\/12\/18 - 1.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Initial release<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"Replytocom redirector plugin solves a problem with some bots that do not know how to handle the replytocom parameter as part of a wordpress url.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oci.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/7520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oci.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oci.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oci.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7520"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oci.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/oferwald"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oci.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oci.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=7520"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oci.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=7520"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oci.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=7520"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oci.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=7520"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oci.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=7520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}