[wp-forums] Search by IP address work?

[Otto]

The poster_IP field isn't indexed, and the database is rather large.
So yeah, that search isn't optimal and probably will time out. Don't
use it at the moment.

-Otto


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> When someone's spamming, trolling, or just making a general nuisance of
> themselves I like to do a search on their client IP 1.2.3.4 via the
> posts.php admin page that usually comes up empty for me, as in ~80% of the
> time. The pages counter shows more than one page but no posts are displayed
> so it doesn't work for me.
>
> Discounting the idea that I'm Doing It All Wrong is there someway to make
> that work? It's really useful when miscreants^H^H^H^HH^H misunderstood
> members are having a bad day.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jan Dembowski
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