Title: Bot Name Last modified: May 6, 2018 --- # Bot Name * Resolved Anonymous User 14978628 * (@anonymized-14978628) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-name/) * Hi, In the table you have “Nickname” and “Name”. * Can you tell me what should i use if i wanted to block that bot manually in htaccess. * Does the bot go by the Nickname or the Name? * Thanks Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Plugin Author [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/) * (@sminozzi) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-name/#post-10253787) * Hi, * Our plugin was made to avoid the users to touch their .htacess file. If you don’t have good skills in apache & .htacess and make mistake in edit your .htacess file, your site can stop to works (with 500 error). * I suggest to you request support to your hosting company about edit your .htacess file to avoid problems. * Cheers, * Bill * Thread Starter Anonymous User 14978628 * (@anonymized-14978628) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-name/#post-10253795) * Hi Bill, * Thanks, I know how to edit htaccess. * Could you please tell me is the actual bot name the “Nickname” or the “Name”? * Plugin Author [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/) * (@sminozzi) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-name/#post-10254626) * Hi, * Unfortunately support to make changes in .htacess file is beyond scope of support of our plugin. Our plugins was developed to avoid ours users to worry with . htacess. Please, talk with your hosting about that. * Cheers, Bill * Thread Starter Anonymous User 14978628 * (@anonymized-14978628) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-name/#post-10254831) * I am not asking for help with htaccess! * In the bot table you have “nickname” and “name” * Question is simple. * What is the official bot name, “nickname” or “name” * Thread Starter Anonymous User 14978628 * (@anonymized-14978628) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-name/#post-10270492) * Are you keeping this a secret? * Plugin Author [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/) * (@sminozzi) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-name/#post-10270900) * This kind of support requested is beyond our plugin purpose. I told you. Our plugin doesn’t use .htacess file. I’m working to lauch other products and i need stop to work to go here and answer things not linked with our plugin. That is i’m kindle trying tell to you. * Thread Starter Anonymous User 14978628 * (@anonymized-14978628) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-name/#post-10270968) * I am not asking for help with htaccess! * In the bot table in your plugin you have “nickname” and “name” * Question is simple. * What is the official bot name, “nickname” or “name”? * This is a question about your plugin. * Plugin Author [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/) * (@sminozzi) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-name/#post-10270996) * Please, contact me through our support page and i will be more clear with you, in private. [http://billminozzi.com/dove](http://billminozzi.com/dove) * Thread Starter Anonymous User 14978628 * (@anonymized-14978628) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-name/#post-10271013) * ok, ticket has been sent. * Plugin Author [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/) * (@sminozzi) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-name/#post-10271078) * Great. I sent the answer to you. * Thread Starter Anonymous User 14978628 * (@anonymized-14978628) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-name/#post-10271144) * Yeah Great, you ask me to send you message via your website so you can send me insult in private and still not answer my question! * Thanks! * I will assume the bot “name” is the correct name to use. Not hard to test 50/ 50 chance. * I will also assume the reason you didn’t answer my question is because you don’t want people blocking bots on their own using htaccess. * But for anyone who wants to do this, you can see an updated list here and add your own bots to it as required: * [https://pastebin.com/BPRv4TDd](https://pastebin.com/BPRv4TDd) Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘Bot Name’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/stopbadbots_f0f0f0.svg) * [Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stopbadbots/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stopbadbots/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/stopbadbots/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/stopbadbots/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/stopbadbots/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/stopbadbots/reviews/) ## Tags * [bad bots](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/bad-bots/) * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/) * 11 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: Anonymous User 14978628 * Last activity: [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-name/#post-10271144) * Status: resolved