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.
| Author: | Team Transposh (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.7 |
| WordPress version tested: | 2.9.2 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 18-12-2009 |
| Last updated: | 18-12-2009
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Plugin URI: | http://transposh.org/ |
| Total downloads: | 2 931 |
| Active installs: | 90+ |
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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 those urls have no value whatsoever for a bot as they contain duplicate content. even so - the bots keep scanning and scanning. In 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 of html code sent to the bot, and it seems like at least 2Gbyte of traffic was wasted for this nonsense.
This plugin solves the problem by simply redirecting such bots to the correct url, saving cpu, network resources and little bunnies.
If you ever encountered this and wanted to solve this, invest two minutes of your life and install this.