I installed a copy of Owen ‘s WordPress webserver stats plugin – BAStats and was delighted with it.
It did, however, highlight to me how many referrer spammers were hitting my site making my referrer stats meaningless. And this despite my constantly updating my .htaccess file to keep spammers out.
I recently heard mention of a referrer spam plugin for WordPress from Dr. Dave called Referrer Karma so I decided to download it and try it out. The install is not straightforward – esp. compared to the BAStats which is a doddle to setup but the results more than make up for it.
Now, looking at the referrer stats in BAStats is a joy – I can now see where my site’s traffic is coming from, updating in realtime and no longer poisoned by referrer spam.
Any luck getting to the settings after setting can_configure to false?
Hi James,
yes, I can get to the settings on my site.
I set can_configure to false, then I created a secret password and accessed the page using the uri path/referrer-karma.php?ref-karma-setup=true&pwd=password
You having problems accessing the settings?
I think you just solved it, my friend. I was using **password**, not just password. I could hug you right now.
Great,
so you are in now?
Yeah, yeah – between that and the prize for the 100th comment – promises, promises!
😉
::hug::
😀