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Howdy Minters,
Is one able to hide referrers from the referrers tab using a wildcard? Example, I get a lot of referrers from WordPress.com because of a theme I created, but blocking just “wordpress.com” doesn’t seem to work, nor does “*.wordpress.com”. If not, it’s of no consequence, it’s just getting slightly annoying. :)
Cheers, Bryan
Hey Bryan,
you can edit the default pepper file : class.php. If want to turn off wordpress.com permnently then edit the getHTML_Referrers functions. Add referer not like ‘%wordpress.com%’ to the where clause.
It’s a hack, but it should handle what you want.
Greg
Do not add “%wordpress.com%” to the WHERE clause. Mint uses secondary indexed integer checksum columns rather than indexing string columns (o increase the speed of INSERTs). That is why wild-cards are not available in the first place. Adding the suggested code would really hammer your database server (as would adding an index for the string referrer column if you have any kind of significant traffic).
Is there any way to do this? Because I’m getting clogged with Yahoo mail server and Windows Live mail server referrals. I have tried blocking mail.yahoo.com and yahoo.com for example, and still, the referrals from sites like
us.mc840.mail.yahoo.com us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com us.mc333.mail.yahoo.com ca.mc882.mail.yahoo.com us.mc882.mail.yahoo.com us.mc331.mail.yahoo.com us.f827.mail.yahoo.com us.f501.mail.yahoo.com us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com us.mc1104.mail.yahoo.com us.f806.mail.yahoo.com us.f822.mail.yahoo.com
continue to roll in. I have tried manually blocking each one (which is mighty time consuming I might add) and after I reached a few hundred, it stopped filtering all together.
Any help would be greatly appreciated or, geez, I dunno… a fix?
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