Title: referral blocking
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# referral blocking

 *  Resolved [fabble](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabble/)
 * (@fabble)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/referral-blocking/)
 * Any chance to include blocking of useless referral traffic? I’m being swamped
   by fake traffic.
 * The traffic itself is being blocked by Wordfence but your plugin still records
   it as a hit and visit.
 * thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/referral-blocking/#post-6738795)
 * We support the Piwik Referrer Spam Blacklist, have you enabled it in Settings-
   >Externals?
 *  Thread Starter [fabble](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabble/)
 * (@fabble)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/referral-blocking/#post-6738828)
 * Hi Greg,
 * yes, I have that enabled but the referrals keep coming. On a side note, I was
   previously using antibot plugin with great success. Unfortunaltely, something
   has broken in this plugin recently. I get the following message when I activate
   it now;
    “Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier ‘n’ in /home/content/p3pnexwpnas08_data03/
   15/2520915/html/wp-content/plugins/antibot/antibot.php on line 95”.
 * The developer no longer seems to be updating it to my knowledge.
 *  Thread Starter [fabble](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabble/)
 * (@fabble)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/referral-blocking/#post-6738864)
 * Piwik seems to be working now.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/referral-blocking/#post-6738866)
 * Good to hear.

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 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/referral-blocking/#post-6738866)
 * Status: resolved