Alternatives to Virtual Robots.txt
Virtual Robots.txt automatically creates a robots.txt file for your site. Your robots.txt file can be easily edited from the plugin settings page.
Snapshot
Rating: 4.2/5 (9 reviews)
Downloads: 435,422
Active installs: 50,000
Maintenance score: 40/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 5.0
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: f
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Bad Behavior(26)•Updated 2260d ago
Bad Behavior prevents spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many
cases, from ever reading your site in the first place.
10,000 installs938,143 downloads16/100 • Possibly abandoned
PHPEnkoder(8)•Updated 847d ago
Encodes mailto: links and e-mail addresses with JavaScript to stifle webcrawlers. Automatically turns plaintext e-mails into (enkoded) links.
2,000 installs46,464 downloads12/100 • Possibly abandoned
Multipart robots.txt editor(3)•Updated 2873d ago
Customize your site's robots.txt and include remote content to it
2,000 installs55,510 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Robots.txt rewrite(2)•Updated 2954d ago
Provide the easy managment of your robots.txt from admin side. It propose you the advanced then standard robots.txt content too.
1,000 installs35,036 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Bisteinoff SEO Robots.txt(3)•Updated 24d ago
An easy-to-use plugin that generates and configures a proper robots.txt file, essential for effective search engine optimization (SEO).
500 installs9,423 downloads70/100 • Actively maintained
Block Archive.org via WordPress robots.txt(0)•Updated 354d ago
Blocks the archive.org bots through the WordPress virtual robots.txt file.
500 installs5,976 downloads38/100 • Stale
BotWriter – Free AI Content Generator(8)•Updated 26d ago
Multi-provider AI content automation for WordPress. SEO-ready posts with GPT-5, Claude, Gemini + images from DALL-E, Flux, Nano Banana Pro & more.
500 installs2,735 downloads70/100 • Actively maintained
Stop and Block bots plugin Anti-bots(2)•Updated 27d ago
Real-Time Bot Protection. Anti Bots (robots), crawlers and spiders also from botnets. Increase security and avoid server overload and bandwidth.
400 installs21,311 downloads70/100 • Actively maintained
iRobots.txt SEO(2)•Updated 5679d ago
iRobots.txt SEO is a SEO optimized, secure and customizable robots.txt virtual file creator.
300 installs33,809 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
WooCommerce Honey Pot Anti Spam(1)•Updated 1356d ago
Add honeypot anti-spam functionality to the popular woocommerce plugin.
300 installs3,533 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Block Chat GPT via robots.txt(1)•Updated 875d ago
Blocks the ChatGPT-User bot that is used by plugins in ChatGPT to crawl websites through the WordPress virtual robots.txt file
100 installs1,878 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Block eCommerce Assets via robots.txt(0)•Updated 829d ago
Blocks some WooCommerce assets and Search pages that should not be indexed through robots.txt
100 installs2,700 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
100 installs6,979 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Block Feed and Comments via robots.txt(0)•Updated 829d ago
Blocks some Feed and Comment resources in order to avoid spam bots
80 installs2,286 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
AntiBot Captcha(0)•Updated 5650d ago
AntiBot Captcha - simple good-looking, but well-protected plugin against spam robots for your blog comments
60 installs8,330 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Block Common Crawl via robots.txt(0)•Updated 829d ago
Blocks the Common Crawl bot (CCBot) that gathers data that is used to train AI algorithms like ChatGPT through the WordPress virtual robots.txt file
30 installs870 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
BT Captcha(1)•Updated 5214d ago
BT Captcha - simple, Bilingual, Flexible, Protect Your WP Blog Against Comment Spams
10 installs7,964 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Thin Content Manager(1)•Updated 4347d ago
See the body word count to identify pages with thin content, then select pages to insert robots noindex,nofollow tags into.
10 installs1,967 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Advanced Conditional Pricing for WooCommerce(0)•Updated 208d ago
The plugin automatically calculates the optimal price for products in WooCommerce. Can work as an advisor or in automatic mode.
10 installs3,625 downloads38/100 • Stale
10 installs2,979 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned