Title: Block Referers
Author: Ethan Allen
Published: <strong>December 23, 2015</strong>
Last modified: April 20, 2020

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# Block Referers

 By [Ethan Allen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/endif-media/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/block-referers.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-referers/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-referers/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-referers/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-referers/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/block-referers/)

## Description

Referrer spam is a nuisance – it skews your website stats so that you can no longer
see accurate useful information such as how many people are visiting your site, 
where your visitors are located, how long they have spent on a particular page and
what devices they are using. It can also effect your rankings in Google’s search
engine results pages (SERPs).

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Upload block-referers folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Navigate to Block Referers menu page and insert the site URLs you wish to block.

## FAQ

  What is a referrer?

The HTTP referrer is a HTTP header field that is sent when a browser goes from one
page to another. When a user clicks a link, the user’s browser makes a request to
the server that holds the desired web page. That request includes the HTTP referrer
field, which identifies the last page that the user was on when they clicked the
link.

This information is useful for website owners because it allows them to see where
their traffic originates from. You can either view the data in your server web logs
or with a service like Google Analytics.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Block Referers” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Ethan Allen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/endif-media/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/block-referers/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/block-referers/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/block-referers/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/block-referers/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **6 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.4.19**
 * Tags
 * [analytics](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/analytics/)[analytics spam](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/analytics-spam/)
   [anti-spam](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/anti-spam/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-referers/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Ethan Allen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/endif-media/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/block-referers/)

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