satisfy any
order deny,allow
allow from all
deny from 205.209.143.66
deny from 212.76.37.174
deny from 96.31.92.173
deny from 83.238.72.106
deny from 85.222.67.34
deny from 77.236.15.226
deny from 208.188.3.9
deny from 212.235.107.140
deny from 109.160.142.48
deny from 89.28.14.35
deny from 212.235.107.140
deny from 58.33.169.109
deny from 205.209.143.66
deny from 79.174.79.122
deny from 212.235.107.140
deny from 213.0.89.6

This is the list for now but at some point I got worried about denying so many ips. So I just got the reCaptcha plugin for wordpress that does great job. No more bots. I don’t know why I didn’t added at the first point. I suggest that to you too. Really or any other captcha validation plugin you can use.

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After line 1133 in get-recent-comments.php modify the code as following:

$lang = 'en';
if(strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/bg/'))
{
 $lang = 'bg';
}

while ($comments_number < $requested_number_of_comments)
{
 $query = "SELECT * from $wpdb->comments JOIN {$wpdb->prefix}icl_translations t ON ({$wpdb->comments}.comment_ID = t.element_id AND t.element_type='comment' AND t.language_code = '$lang') WHERE comment_approved= '1' AND " .
 $sql_comment_type .
 $sql_exclude_owner .
 $sql_ignore_ip .
 "ORDER BY comment_date DESC LIMIT " . ($batch_number*$batch_size) . ",$batch_size";
 // echo "$query<br><br>";
 $comments = $wpdb->get_results($query);
 ...

You have to get the language first, I am using the folder structure, and then the modification is in the query.
Enjoy!

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# bg feeds
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^(FeedBurner|FeedValidator) [NC]
RewriteRule ^bg/feed/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/Georgibudinovcom [R=302,NC,L]

# en feeds
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^(FeedBurner|FeedValidator) [NC]
RewriteRule ^feed/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/budinov/hSZI [R=302,NC,L]

But now I had to include the category matching which has non-latin characters. This would not work so I had to do it via PHP. I then realized that the same thing can be achieved with the help of one of those plugins for redirects in WordPress. However this is the better way for me. Here it is:

fp-includes/feeds.php

$configRedirects = array(
 '/bg/category/програмиране/feed/' => 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/budinov/HjOF',
 '/bg/category/програмиране/php-програмиране/feed/' => 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/budinov/okdt',
 '/bg/category/програмиране/php-програмиране/codeigniter-php/feed/' => 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/budinov/KATe',
 '/bg/category/програмиране/php-програмиране/prado-php/feed/' => 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/budinov/Dhjv',
 '/bg/category/програмиране/php-програмиране/wordpress-php-програмиране/feed/' => 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/budinov/rfxC',

 '/category/programming/feed/' => 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/GeorgibudinovcomProgramming',
 '/category/programming/php/feed/' => 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/GeorgibudinovcomPhp',
 '/category/programming/php/codeigniter/feed/' => 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/GeorgibudinovcomCodeigniter',
 '/category/programming/php/prado/feed/' => 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/GeorgibudinovcomPrado',
 '/category/programming/php/wordpress/feed/' => 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/GeorgibudinovcomWordPress',
);

$decodedUrl = urldecode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

if(!eregi("FeedBurner|FeedValidator", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && $configRedirects[$decodedUrl])
{
 header('Location: '.$configRedirects[$decodedUrl]);
 die();
}

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I have to admit here – WordPress is magnificient tool incorporating the work of so many developers. But here is the catch – you cannot trust them all. A lot of plugins. You choose one, download, install and activate. Cool! Until some f**cked plugin you decided to try out messes all you have done upto the moment. So what do you do ? Test it on localhost of course.

Developing on localhost is the preferred way of work for most of the programmers including me. But guess what happened when I tried to go live – it seems that most of the configuration urls for WordPress like base url path and others like specific plugin urls are kept in the database. At first I was a little upset when I realized this. I thought “WTF? What to do now ? I should have gone deeper in the sources before getting the job done ?”, but afterwards I realized that this is not such a trouble. I just dumped the sql structure and data from the localhost server. Opened it in Eclipse, set the right encoding, and used the so so helpful function search and replace. I imported the dump on the live server and forgot about it. Nice! Actually I haven’t searched intensively the web for a better solution as long as this is working for me. Perhaps WordPress has integrated a solution for this? Or any plugin? OK. I couldn’t find any. By the way this is a good idea for developing a new plugin for WordPress. If I have some time I could give it a try. At the end this is the best way to get deeper in a product – start working on it!

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