=== Top Spammers ===
Contributors: tfnab
Donate link: http://ten-fingers-and-a-brain.com/donate/
Tags: comments, spam, akismet, htaccess
Requires at least: 2.8.0
Tested up to: 2.8.4
Stable tag: 0.3

Top Spammers displays a list of your top spammers’ IP addresses. It also generates a blacklist for your .htaccess file.

== Description ==

*Top Spammers* displays a list of your top spammers' IP addresses, based on all comments in your database that are marked as spam. It also generates a blacklist for your `.htaccess` file to block those spammers from your website entirely, thus taking load off the server. – You will need another plugin (like [Akismet](http://akismet.com/)) to identify the spam.

== Installation ==

1. Upload the entire `top-spammers` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
1. Activate *Top Spammers* through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
1. Make sure you have another plugin installed and activated to identify the spam (if you don't, take a look at [Akismet](http://akismet.com/))

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Why do I have to edit .htaccess manually? =

There's two reasons for this:

1. Allowing Wordpress to write to `.htaccess` as it does when you change the permalink structure would break many of my Wordpress installations. Since I wrote this plugin first and foremost for my own use I would have never benefitted from this functionality.
1. I actually had the plugin update `.htaccess` automatically. But then I blocked myself from my test site... Blocking an IP address through `.htaccess` is quite a harsh measure. It doesn't only prevent bots at that IP from posting comments, it prevents users who happen to use that same IP from accessing the blog. – I intend to automatically write to `.htaccess` in a future release, with a few security mechanisms added...

== Screenshots ==

1. Top Spammers displays a list of spammers' IP addresses and generates a blacklist for your `.htaccess` file

== Changelog ==

= 0.3 =
* initial public release