Alvaro Degives-Mas

Probably – hopefully.

Txanny was merely observing that by default new topics on plugins are posted in the Installs forum; I merely observed that that’s mainly because the drop-down menu to select the appropriate forum is practically hidden – which can be solved by putting it waaaaaaaay on top, above the text area field for the topic text itself, so that people are made aware of it.

And, of course, setting the default selection to “plugins” would also help, but hey, I’m no coder so what do I know about these intertubes.

On the upside, you can have your webpages in any color you like, and for Netscape Navigator users you can use nice <blink> tags, and they even have a special download accelerator for dial-up modem users.

Ahem – this is what happens when you type faster than your eyes can check what you actually type: I was thinking about caching when I said “you’ll see a comment near the bottom” – oops!

Bad Behavior does of course show up, but it’s higher up in the source code; you just have to search for the string “Bad Behavior” which would show, for the current version, something like this:

<!-- Bad Behavior 2.0.28 run time: XX.XXX ms -->

And then, of course, some Bad Behavior magic follows that bit. Bottom line, see the source code of your site to check whether BB is active.

Sidenote: please read this before posting plugin support issues in the WordPress Installation forum again…

I can’t speak to Batcache specifically (you might check in with its author, the amazing Mr Andy Skelton) but I can tell you that WP Super Cache supports Bad Behavior quite well (it automatically detects its presence when both are active, you just need to activate their cooperation in the WP Super Cache options page).

Drawback is that you won’t be able to use the extra oomph you normally get from Gzip compression – but that’s actually not a “drawback” but a logical and necessary trade-off between performance (WP Super Cache, or any other good cache plugin) and security (Bad Behavior).

Bottom line: if you’re both strapped for resources and you have a lot of really nasty critters crawling over your site, there’s simply no way around upgrading your hosting package. That balance between performance and security is not a ‘flaw’ – it’s just what it is.

Note: Batcache appears to be a relatively high-end solution for multiple-server setups, plus you have to ensure Memcache is supported. In other words, it’s not in the “simple plug and play” caching plugin category, which you probably already know – it’s just a cautionary remark for unsuspecting other users.

Ovidiu said:

[…] I see a list with all bb logs, and there is a checkbox to select all logs, but then, the delete button is missing 🙂

I have a l33t fix for that: using a permanent marker, I wrote the underlined word “DELETE” on my monitor, in the column header of the table. Now, I haven’t found the right CSS markup yet to change absolute to relative positioning, but it’s a start! I just move my monitor up or down when I scroll the BB page, and it’s full of win. Of course I personally don’t use the internets for anything else but checking out the BB logs, so your mileage may vary.

Otherwise, for lazy cheating coders: you can apply the hack of just doing nothing, as the table is regularly purged already. Don’t take my word for it, check line 6 of housekeeping.inc.php for yourself… The purging interval is 7 days, i.e. independent from the timeframe you set in the BB settings page.