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Bad Behavior 2.0.11 Wordpress Plugin Blocking Digg Submission

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OK. I am fairly new (less than a dozen posts old) at this whole Wordpress blogging thing. So when I run into problems, sometimes I am just not quite sure whether I am the problem or the software I am working with. Almost always it ends up being the latter for which I am glad since this helps to support the fact that maybe I am somewhat capable of helping to manage and run a nationwide computer repair company. Anyways, let’s get to the chase here. I know social submission is important to promoting your website or blog. So before I started this blog, I tried to include some important wordpress plugins prior to publicizing some of my articles. My mistake was really to add all of my plugins at the same time. Do not do this! Because of this mistake I was not easily able to narrow down what was causing the problem I was having when I attempted to submit my articles to Digg. I kept on getting, “This link does not appear to be a working link. Please check the URL and try again.” So yesterday, I wasted a few hours racking my feeble brain and trying to figure out which one of the twenty thousand plugins I had installed could be causing the problem. I knew it couldn’t be:

  • My links: I had checked them all and they were fine.
  • My WWW- Redirect plugin - I though maybe Digg didn’t like the submission of redirect links. They don’t. But this was not the problem. After deactivating this plugin the problem still existed.
  • Couldn’t be my Digg account. I just recently signed up and barely have any activity on the account. I could log in and digg other stories.

It must be something else. And that is when I had the epiphany. Could it be one of my spam prevention plugins? Long story short, turns out that is exactly what it was. Bad Behaviour (I have v. 2.0.11) was preventing me from submitting my articles to Digg. Problem is that I am so new to Wordpress, blogging, PHP code, plugins, etc. that I did not think I would be able to fix it. And, as of the writing of this article, I really couldn’t find any information on how to fix the problem. So why not use my new blog to help others who might be having the exact same problem. And that is exactly why I have written this article.

How to fix Bad Behavior 2.0.11 from blocking your diggs:

  1. Locate the “whitelist.inc.php” file: It should be in “(your blog’s root)/wp-content/plugins/bad-behavior/bad-behavior”
  2. Edit this file with notepad.

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3. Find the following code,
“$bb2_whitelist_ip_ranges = array(” and add 64.191.203.34 to next line of
whitelisted ip’s. This is Digg’s ip and it will unblock Digg from Bad
Behavior and allow you to now make Digg submissions without those annoying
errors:
Click on the picture for the clearer full size picture.
Now if you found this blog article helpful or useful in any way, please
digg it. I am trying to figure out what kind of information is going to
drive traffic to this blog.Thank you.-Kyle

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