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.

Till Krüss

<p>A lightweight plugin that protects plain email addresses and mailto links from email-harvesting robots, by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities. Has an effect on the posts, pages, comments, excerpts, text widgets and other filtered content. Works without JavaScript — just simple spam protection.</p>
<p>To see whether all your email addresses are properly protected, use the free <a href="https://encoder.till.im/scanner?utm_source=wp-plugin&utm_medium=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">page scanner</a> tool.</p>
<p>Other content (like phone numbers) can be protected using <code>[encode]</code> shortcode:</p>
<pre><code>[encode]+1 (555) 123-4567[/encode]
[encode link="tel:+15551234567"]+1 (555) 123-4567[/encode]
</code></pre>
<h4>Premium Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Full-page protection</strong> that catches all email addresses</li>
<li><strong>Hardened protection</strong> using JavaScript and CSS techniques</li>
<li>Improved <strong>phone number</strong> protection</li>
<li>Built-in plugin support for <strong>ACF</strong>, <strong>Jetpack</strong>, <strong>WooCommerce</strong> and many others</li>
</ul>
<p>Check out the <a href="https://encoder.till.im/download?utm_source=wp-plugin&utm_medium=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium</a> version of Email Address Encoder.</p>
<p><a href="http://coderisk.com/wp/plugin/email-address-encoder/RIPS-r0bJqKvBws" rel="nofollow ugc"></a></p>


Email Address Encoder


This might work with page or post content, but does not with widgets. I can't recommend using this and suggest to use the plugin "Email Encoder" by Jannis Thuemming instead, since that does the job out of the box.


Not working with widgets

A lightweight plugin that protects email addresses from email-harvesting robots, by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities.

AI Crawler Guard vs Email Address Encoder