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JTZL's Bot Maze 0 installs · 5.0
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-100.0%momentum 14.5weakness 1/1pain/praise

Pain still appears around bugs, compatibility despite praise for reliable, performance.

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BotFend Anti-Bot Firewall 0 installs · 5.0
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-100.0%momentum 30.5weakness 4/2pain/praise

Open gap: users report missing feature, security without a matching collected praise theme.

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CHEQ Essentials 700 installs · 0.0
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-100.0%momentum 19.3weakness 1/0pain/praise

Open gap: users report bugs, support without a matching collected praise theme.

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Evidence

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complaint A lot of useful protective, anti-bot features

A lot of useful protective, anti-bot features: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

BotFend Anti-Bot Firewall · A lot of useful protective, anti-bot features BotFend has a lot of security features and pretty advanced protection from bots using various scoring parameters like external blocklists, 404 access count and general rate-limit, bot traps, files protection etc.. complaint Feedback – ideas to improve

Feedback – ideas to improve: users show security, bugs, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

BotFend Anti-Bot Firewall · 2 “Enable Reverse DNS Verification” checkbox may be moved one item up to be right after “Enable Crawler Verification” and be named similarly, so it is apparent these are two options of a same thing. complaint 🔐 What is Bot Lockout?

🔐 What is Bot Lockout?: users show security, bugs, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Bot Lockout · Bot Lockout is a lightweight WordPress plugin designed to protect your site from unwanted AI scrapers and malicious bots using cryptographic JavaScript challenges without CAPTCHAs, no annoying pop-ups, just smart protection. complaint Plugin Vulnerability

Plugin Vulnerability: users show security, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · Plugin Vulnerability When will an update be released that patches this vulnerability? complaint VPN blocking should not be default

VPN blocking should not be default: users show security, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

BotFend Anti-Bot Firewall · Blocking these people by default (as your plugin seems to be doing) on a General settings tab, seems like bad idea. mixed PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to private method BotFendDatabaseDatabase

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to private method BotFendDatabaseDatabase: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

BotFend Anti-Bot Firewall · PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to private method BotFendDatabaseDatabase Hello, I am on WP 7.0, PHP 8.5, plugin 4.9.1 and today at /wp-admin/site-health.php?tab=debug is critical error preventing page to load: https://justpaste.it/2g65l it happens in /wp-content/plugins/botfend-anti-bot-firewall/botfend-anti-bot-firewall.php on line 536 Hello, I am on mixed Plugin is (maybe wrongly) scoring even internal sub-requests 404

Plugin is (maybe wrongly) scoring even internal sub-requests 404: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

BotFend Anti-Bot Firewall · Plugin is (maybe wrongly) scoring even internal sub-requests 404 Hello, one would expect to score bad visitors who tries to access pages that does not exist, but the plugin seems to be scoring particular elements of a web page not being found, which may/can NOT be fault of a visitor, because maybe admin just misconfigured website to link to non existing elem mixed Unable to Uninstall

Unable to Uninstall: users show security, bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Cloud Maestro – WAF Security Suite for Cloudflare · Unable to Uninstall The plugin did not work for me,unfortunetly so I am trying to uninstall. mixed Block List too strict

Block List too strict: users show security, bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Cloud Maestro – WAF Security Suite for Cloudflare · Block List too strict Great plugin idea. complaint Stopped Bot Checkout Attacks Immediately

Stopped Bot Checkout Attacks Immediately: users show security, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Checkout Shield for WooCommerce – Stop Fake Orders, Spam Bots & Card Testing · Stopped Bot Checkout Attacks Immediately Super impressed with this plugin with it’s ability to stop checkout bots that bypass the reCAPTCHA and target API. complaint Plugin crashes the website

Plugin crashes the website: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · Plugin crashes the website Plugin crashes the website when activated. complaint Plugin not activated

Plugin not activated: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

CHEQ Essentials · Plugin not activated Hello Support Team, I installed the plugin and tried to activate but it’s showing “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error .” and not able to activate it. complaint Plugin Vulnerability V3.2.7

Plugin Vulnerability V3.2.7: users show security, bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · Plugin Vulnerability V3.2.7 ClickCease Click Fraud Protection <= 3.2.7 – Cross-Site Request Forgery Wordfence showing error: Plugin Name: Clickcease – Click Fraud Protection Current Plugin Version: 3.2.7 Details: To protect your site from this vulnerability, the safest option is to deactivate and completely remove “Clickcease – Click Fraud Protection” until complaint Does not work

A paid ClickCease user says the tool failed to block repeated same-household ad clicks that cost them $137 in one day.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · clicking 28 times from multiple devices, 1 household that cost us $137 in 1 single day mixed Remove ASN from Block Expression

Remove ASN from Block Expression: users show security, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Cloud Maestro – WAF Security Suite for Cloudflare · Remove ASN from Block Expression I have used your original plugin from Github for around a year and it has worked great! complaint Good security plugin

Good security plugin: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

BotFend Anti-Bot Firewall · Good security plugin This plugins does what it says…. praise Legit Amazing

Legit Amazing: users show security, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Checkout Shield for WooCommerce – Stop Fake Orders, Spam Bots & Card Testing · I even went as far as to shut off the WooCommerce API entirely, but that only worked on a few sites without blocking all orders entirely. praise Someone heard my prayers

Someone heard my prayers: users show security, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Cloud Maestro – WAF Security Suite for Cloudflare · I read some of the reviews too and i agree with there should be more control on the plugin page directly to customize what should be allowed/disallowed – that gives more flexibility on having the security plugin. praise Easy setup and spam stopped

Easy setup and spam stopped: users show security, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

TrustSig Security · Easy setup and spam stopped Deployment was easy, I am not tech savy but was able to get it running in less than a minute. praise Best anti spam registration blocker.

Best anti spam registration blocker.: users show security, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Pk Spam Registration Blocker · Best anti spam registration blocker. praise Only solution that worked

Only solution that worked: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

Checkout Shield for WooCommerce – Stop Fake Orders, Spam Bots & Card Testing · This works really well. complaint robots.txt not modified by the plugin

robots.txt not modified by the plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

JTZL's Bot Maze · robots.txt not modified by the plugin Hello, I am on a WP 7.0, PHP 8.4 and plugin 1.1.0. complaint Remove jQuery dependency

Remove jQuery dependency: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · Remove jQuery dependency Is it possible to stop loading jQuery on the frontend for your plugin? complaint | Duplicated clickcease found, Please remove one of them.

| Duplicated clickcease found, Please remove one of them.: users show bugs, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · why this plugin works when i logged in ADMIN? mixed Problem, no Account ID is listed

Problem, no Account ID is listed: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Cloud Maestro – WAF Security Suite for Cloudflare · Problem, no Account ID is listed Hi I have created an Token, copied the key to the field and pressed “Save Settings” The field will not show any values: Account ID: Save your API Token first, then this field will load your available accounts. complaint Syntax for Kaspersky?

Syntax for Kaspersky?: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Agent AI Bot Protect · Installed this plugin today because problems with “Booter – Bots & Crawlers Manager By uPress ” Booter generated over 600 000 hits to my sitemap.rss file but there are no visits in Wordfence Live Traffic 🙁 The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Is it User-agent: Kaspersky Lab bot ? complaint Easy to use

Easy to use: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Supertab Connect · Easy to use A great and easy way to support RSL for bot/ai crawling on your site with Supertab Connect A great and easy way to support RSL for bot/ai crawling on your site with Supertab Connect complaint Mention default value for each scoring parameter?

Mention default value for each scoring parameter?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

BotFend Anti-Bot Firewall · Mention default value for each scoring parameter? complaint Score explained in relation to blocking

Score explained in relation to blocking: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

BotFend Anti-Bot Firewall · (like for example “Allowed: 404” with possible tooltip “Allowed request despite Advanced 404 detection”) Can this be improved to be which score triggers blocking and so each request clearly tell if allowed or blocked? complaint Agent AI Bot Protect Dashboard

Agent AI Bot Protect Dashboard: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Agent AI Bot Protect · Agent AI Bot Protect Dashboard Bot Traffic & Daily Activity & Bot Details tabs I see only 2 rows of text: Bot Traffic Distribution Shows total hits and blocked requests by bot type This area is only 155 pixels high, too bad! complaint Do I need to install the manual code?

Do I need to install the manual code?: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · Do I need to install the manual code? complaint Compatibility with caching

Compatibility with caching: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · Compatibility with caching Is this plugin compatible with caching solutions either plugin ones (W3TC etc) or external such as Varnish/Cloudflare? complaint Worst Code Imaginable

Worst Code Imaginable: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · Worst Code Imaginable I’m not commenting on the ClickCease service – as far as I know, that’s totally great, but this plugin is coded in the worst way imaginable. complaint Strange service, no support, bad code

Strange service, no support, bad code: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · Strange service, no support, bad code Their support closes support requests without solving them Their support closes support requests without solving them complaint there is no free plan (paid only)

there is no free plan (paid only): users show pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · there is no free plan (paid only) there is no free plan (paid only) there is no free plan (paid only) praise Works

Works: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · Works Simple install and integration into the platform Simple install and integration into the platform neutral Failed to update ruleset for domain

Failed to update ruleset for domain: users show bugs, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Cloud Maestro – WAF Security Suite for Cloudflare · Failed to update ruleset for domain We installed the plugin and picked a couple of domains to test with. praise Simple setup!

Simple setup!: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · Simple setup! praise Super Easy to Install

Super Easy to Install: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection · Super Easy to Install Super Easy to Install Super Easy to Install praise Great plugin and service

Great plugin and service: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

KillBot · Great plugin and service Very good Anti-Bot Service.