Detect and block bad bots

- [Instructor] In this video we're going to protect … our website against bad bots. … We've seen how to do this with a plugin … in a previous tutorial, but there is a better, … more efficient, and direct way to protect your site … using the HT Access file or the Apache Configuration file. … Using HT Access to control traffic … is better for site performance … because it happens at the server level. … That means there's no need load PHP, … the database, and site assets like CSS, … JavaScript, images, and everything else. … So it's much more efficient than using a plugin. … Here we are looking at our site's root HT Access file. … To block some bad bots, grab a copy of the HT Access code … that's included in the exercise files for this tutorial. … And then paste the code into the HT Access file … before any existing WordPress rules. … This chunk of code is like a virtual control panel … for blocking bad bots. … In this first part, we detect some of the worst known bots … via their user agents. …