quick wordpress fix

hello I have this quick task to do to reduce my hosting resources usage I have investigated your case and I found that the hight CPU usage is due to bots. You can block all bots in your [login to view URL] file using the following code: Code: User-agent: * Disallow: / For the ones that does not check this file, you can set an .htaccess rule. In your specific case you can set: Code: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^bot\*$ RewriteRule .* - [F,L] This will block the access of a bot identified by the name " bot* ". For an empty user agent string you can use the following rule: Code: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L] The bad bots you can block via the following .htaccess' firewall: Code: # 6G FIREWALL/BLACKLIST # @ [login to view URL] # 6G:[QUERY STRINGS] RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (eval\() [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (127\.0\.0\.1) [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ([a-z0-9]{2000}) [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (javascript:)(.*)(;) [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (base64_encode)(.*)(\() [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (GLOBALS|REQUEST)(=|\[|%) [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)(.*)script(.*)(>|%3) [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\|\.\.\.|\.\./|~|`|<|>|\|) [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (boot\.ini|etc/passwd|self/environ) [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (thumbs?(_editor|open)?|tim(thumb)?)\.php [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ('|")(.*)(drop|insert|md5|select|union) [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F] # 6G:[REQUEST METHOD] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(connect|debug|delete|move|put|trace|track) [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F] # 6G:[REFERRERS] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ([a-z0-9]{2000}) [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ([login to view URL]|todaperfeita) [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F] # 6G:[REQUEST STRINGS] RedirectMatch 403 (?i)([a-z0-9]{2000}) RedirectMatch 403 (?i)(https?|ftp|php):/ RedirectMatch 403 (?i)(base64_encode)(.*)(\() RedirectMatch 403 (?i)(=\'|=\%27|/\'/?)\. RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/(\$(\&)?|\*|"|\.|,|&|&?)/?$ RedirectMatch 403 (?i)(\{0\}|\(/\(|\.\.\.|\+\+\+|\"\") RedirectMatch 403 (?i)(~|`|<|>|:|;|,|%|\|\s|\{|\}|\[|\]|\|) RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/(=|\$&|_mm|cgi-|etc/passwd|muieblack) RedirectMatch 403 (?i)(&pws=0|_vti_|\(null\)|\{\$itemURL\}|echo(.*)kae|etc/passwd|eval\(|self/environ) RedirectMatch 403 (?i)\.(aspx?|bash|bak?|cfg|cgi|dll|exe|git|hg|ini|jsp|log|mdb|out|sql|svn|swp|tar|rar|rdf)$ RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/(^$|(wp-)?config|mobiquo|phpinfo|shell|sqlpatch|thumb|thumb_editor|thumbopen|timthumb|webshell)\.php # 6G:[USER AGENTS] SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent ([a-z0-9]{2000}) bad_bot SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent ([login to view URL]|binlar|casper|checkpriv|choppy|clshttp|cmsworld|diavol|dotbot|extract|feedfinder|flicky|g00g1e|harvest|heritrix|httrack|kmccrew|loader|miner|nikto|nutch|planetwork|postrank|purebot|pycurl|python|seekerspider|siclab|skygrid|sqlmap|sucker|turnit|vikspider|winhttp|xxxyy|youda|zmeu|zune) bad_bot Order Allow,Deny Allow from All Deny from env=bad_bot # 6G:[BAD IPS] Order Allow,Deny Allow from All # uncomment/edit/repeat next line to block IPs # Deny from 123.456.789 More information about it you can find on the link below: [ur][login to view URL][/code] You can block multiple bots with such a rule. For example, if you want to add block for google bot in the same RewriteRule just add: Code: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (googlebot|bingbot|Baiduspider) [NC] You can also tweak the Googlebot crawl rate from your Google Webmaster Tools account.