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CeeWP Robots.txt Manager is a lightweight and user-friendly plugin that allows you to easily manage your WordPress site’s virtual robots.txt file. Add custom rules without creating physical files, with full control over search engine access to your content.
Why Choose Robots.txt Manager?
<ul>
<li>No File Management: Works with WordPress’s built-in virtual robots.txt system</li>
<li>Two Operating Modes: Choose between appending to or replacing default rules</li>
<li>User-Friendly Interface: Clean admin panel with helpful examples</li>
<li>WordPress Standards: Follows all WordPress coding and security standards</li>
<li>Automatic Cleanup: Removes all data when uninstalled</li>
</ul>
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Simple interface to add custom robots.txt rules</li>
<li>Replace Mode: Option to completely replace WordPress default robots.txt with custom rules</li>
<li>Append Mode: Add custom rules to existing WordPress robots.txt (default behavior)</li>
<li>Dynamic Textarea: Automatically adjusts height based on content</li>
<li>Live Preview: Direct link to view your robots.txt file</li>
<li>Smart Warnings: Alerts when search engines are discouraged</li>
<li>Privacy Respect: Honors WordPress privacy settings</li>
<li>Examples Included: Ready-to-use code snippets for common scenarios</li>
<li>Professional UI: Modern interface with WordPress dashicons</li>
</ul>
Perfect for:
<ul>
<li>SEO Professionals: Fine-tune search engine crawling behavior</li>
<li>Website Owners: Block access to private directories and files</li>
<li>Developers: Prevent indexing of development or staging content</li>
<li>E-commerce Sites: Control bot access to sensitive areas</li>
<li>Content Creators: Manage sitemap declarations and crawl rates</li>
</ul>
How It Works:
The plugin adds a new menu item under Settings > Robots.txt Manager where you can easily add your custom rules. Choose between two modes:
<ul>
<li>Append Mode (Default): Your custom rules are added to WordPress’s default robots.txt</li>
<li>Replace Mode: Your custom rules completely replace WordPress’s default robots.txt</li>
</ul>
The interface includes helpful examples, real-time textarea sizing, and a direct link to view your live robots.txt file.
<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data. All settings are stored locally in your WordPress database and are only used to generate your robots.txt file.
<h3>Credits</h3>
Developed with ❤️ by CeeWP – https://ceewp.com/
Special thanks to the WordPress community for continuous inspiration and feedback.

CeeWP Robots.txt Manager

Easily manage your WordPress site's virtual robots.txt file with custom rules. No physical file needed!

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Get realtime visibility into crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents browsing your website. Generate a robots.txt to opt out of AI training.
<h3>Track AI agents, bot traffic, and LLM referrals</h3>
Bots now make up <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/insights" rel="nofollow ugc">half of your website’s traffic</a>. Harness the activity of AI agents, crawlers, scrapers, and LLM assistants to grow your business and protect your content from unwanted bot access. For full details, visit the <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dark Visitors</a> website.
<h3>1. Agent Analytics</h3>
Get realtime visibility into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, AI agents, and other bots browsing your website.
<ul>
<li>Monitor traffic from crawlers and scrapers: Track the hidden activity of <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/agents" rel="nofollow ugc">all known artificial agents</a> visiting your website in real time.</li>
<li>Watch AI agents browse your website: Analyze sessions from AI models autonomously navigating and interacting with your website. Optimize their experience to increase conversions and human referrals.</li>
<li>Spot spoofed visits with agent authentication: Detect bad actors pretending to be legitimate agents.</li>
<li>Get spike alert notifications: Get notified when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server.</li>
<li>Identify the most active agents and which pages they’re accessing: Understand which agents visit your website the most, and which pages they’re most interested in.</li>
<li>Export reports to CSV: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. LLM Referral Tracking</h3>
Measure human traffic coming from AI chat and search platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot.
<ul>
<li>Find out which AI platforms are mentioning you: See which LLMs are including or recommending your website in their responses.</li>
<li>Export reports to CSV: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Automatic Robots.txt</h3>
Protect sensitive content from unwanted scraping with a continuously updating robots.txt.
<ul>
<li>Generate your robots.txt automatically: Opt out of LLM training by generating a robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically. No need to make manual updates.</li>
<li>Block agents who try to break your rules: block bad bots from accessing your website.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demos</h3>
Demos can be found on the <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">home page</a>.
<h3>Further Details</h3>
This plugin connects your website to <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dark Visitors</a>. It uses the Dark Visitors API to connect to your account and provide functionality.
By signing up, you agree to the <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.
Are you finding this plugin useful? Please <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">leave us a ★★★★★ review</a>! Otherwise, please <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/" rel="ugc">ask us for help</a>.

Dark Visitors – Bot & AI Agent Analytics, Robots.txt Generator & Blocker, LLM Referral Tracker


Please remind me in a month to provide an update on the performance of this plugin on a heavily visited website.


Begun my review...


An easy improvement would be to link to the settings page from the plugin entry like other plugins, other than that, in general this plugin and its online dashboard is generally well thought out and useful. My website is small and has limited resources that get overrun by crawlers making it unavailable. This plugin helps identify the culprits and decide if I should block them or not. For free you can block them in robots.txt, as I have a physical file, the plugin won't touch that but its easy to add manually. It will report those crawlers that ignore the robots file and the paid version will enforce those rules, but I just update ".htaccess" myself.



I'm reducing my rating by a star since you won't get much "Agent Analytics" (per month) and for my tiny site it quickly ran out, we are a NFP so don't have money to burn on subscriptions.  The the description for the plan incorrectly states "Unlimited Agent Analytics" when the plan only includes 100,000 events.


Very Useful Plugin


Very good: shows all bot-crawlers.Our website was sometimes down due to bot-crawlers, with this tool it is easy to solve. Very good logging of bots.This was the only good plugin I could find for this purpose.Some bots ignore robots.txt. So I manually changed htaccess, that worked very good.


Very very helpful

Get realtime visibility into crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents browsing your website. Generate a robots.txt to opt out of AI training.

CeeWP Robots.txt Manager vs Dark Visitors – Bot & AI Agent Analytics, Robots.txt Generator & Blocker, LLM Referral Tracker