aicrawlerguard.com

<p>AI Crawler Guard detects popular AI-focused crawlers and lets you block or allow them from scraping your WordPress site. Everything runs locally—rules, decisions, logs, and history stay on your server.</p>
<ul>
<li>Built-in signatures for common AI bots, plus optional custom patterns</li>
<li>Global and per-crawler allow/block controls</li>
<li>Local crawler registry with first/last seen timestamps and hit counters</li>
<li>Lightweight logs with optional retention cap</li>
<li>No external calls or remote storage</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.8 or newer</li>
<li>PHP 7.4+</li>
<li>Works with Classic Editor, Gutenberg, WooCommerce, and major managed hosts</li>
<li>Respects wp-admin, wp-login, REST API, cron, and CLI contexts automatically</li>
</ul>
<h3>Performance</h3>
<ul>
<li>Detection runs once per front-end request (small O(n) UA scan)</li>
<li>No blocking of social preview bots (Facebook, Meta, Twitter, LinkedIn) by default</li>
<li>Assets load only on plugin admin pages and stay under 10 KB</li>
<li>Logs stay capped by your configured limit with auto-pruning</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>All detection logic and data storage live entirely inside WordPress. No data is sent to third-party services in v1.</p>


AI Crawler Guard

Detect and control AI crawler access with local logging and history.

apasionados

<p>This plugin adds lines to the virtual robots.txt file (that WordPress creates automagically if the file is not present physically on the server) to block the archive.org bots.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Please be aware of what this plugin does exactly: If you activate the plugin it will add some lines to the robots.txt file to tell the <a href="https://archive.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Archive.org bots</a> <strong>not to crawl and index</strong> your page. This means that they won’t store a backup of your site and you won’t be able to browse the different versions of the website through time.</p>
<p>Please keep in mind that if you activate this plugin and your site is deleted from the archive.org index, you can’t undo this. If you remove the plugin and the block of the archive.org bot, they’ll start again crawling and indexing the website from that moment, but all the older information is lost. <strong>Be carefull and think if this is what you want to do!</strong>. If you mess it nobody will not be able to help you (neither we or archive.org).</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Please only activate this plugin if you know what you’re doing</strong>.</p>
<h4>What can I do with this plugin?</h4>
<p>This plugin adds the necessary lines to the virtual robots.txt file that WordPress creates automagically to block the archive.org bots.</p>
<h4>What ideas is this plugin based on?</h4>
<p>None. We needed a fast solution to add these lines to the robots.txt file and this was the solution we coded.</p>
<h4>System requirements</h4>
<p>PHP version 5.5 or greater.</p>
<h4>Block archive.org bots robots.txt Plugin in your Language!</h4>
<p>The first release is avaliable in English and Spanish. In the “languages” folder we have included the necessary files to translate this plugin.</p>
<p>If you would like the plugin in your language and you’re good at translating, please use the <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/block-archive-org-robots-txt/" rel="nofollow ugc">native WordPress Translation</a> functionality.</p>
<p>New to Translating a plugin? First read through the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/tools/glotpress-translate-wordpress-org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Translator Handbook</a>, then select your locale at <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Translating WordPress</a> and finally go to the <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/block-archive-org-robots-txt/" rel="nofollow ugc">translation page for this plugin</a> to translate it.</p>
<h4>Further Reading</h4>
<p>You can access the description of the plugin in Spanish at: <a href="https://apasionados.es/blog/bloquear-el-bot-de-archive-org-a-traves-de-robots-txt-wordpress-plugin-7752/" rel="nofollow ugc">Block archive.org bots robots.txt en español</a>.</p>
<h3>Contact</h3>
<p>For further information please send us an <a href="https://apasionados.es/contacto/index.php?desde=wordpress-org-block-archive-org-robots-txt" rel="nofollow ugc">email</a>.</p>


Block Archive.org via WordPress robots.txt

Blocks the archive.org bots through the WordPress virtual robots.txt file.

AI Crawler Guard vs Block Archive.org via WordPress robots.txt