CeeWP

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!

Log Hero

<h4>Log-Hero.com</h4>
Do you want to understand how bots crawl your website? Log Hero helps you track and visualize bots, spiders, and crawlers by making them visible in real time in your Google Analytics account so that you can analyze them like human visitors.
His additional dimensions and metrics help you analyze the bot data even better. Using Log Hero, you won’t have to fetch your server logs and analyze them in a lousy UI. From now on, your logs are available in real-time in Google Analytics.
<h4>Data that you can monitor in Google Analytics</h4>
<ul>
<li>Page path of your crawled sites (see how often a bot crawls sites).</li>
<li>User agent (how the bot identifies himself).</li>
<li>IP addresses (only for bots, so 100% GDPR and privacy compliant).</li>
<li>Sessions and users (monitor bots and their flow as if they were human visitors).</li>
<li>HTTP status codes (monitor status codes of individual sites, find broken links, redirect chains, server failures).</li>
<li>Download times (how long the bot needs to download your content).</li>
<li>[Premium] Device category (which device category the bot used. I.e., see whether Google crawled you with the mobile or desktop bot).</li>
<li>[Premium] Bot name (Using user agent and the IP address, we check whether the bot is whom he claims he is).</li>
<li>[Premium] Request method (see what request method (PUT or GET) bots used on your site).</li>
<li>[Premium] Referral / channel (analyze through which links bots came to your site to crawl you).</li>
<li>[Premium] Location (see where the visitor or bot is from).</li>
<li>[Premium] IsBot (see at a first glance whether it’s a bot or a human).</li>
<li>[Premium] Spam detection (check how many spam bots visit your site and what type they are).</li>
<li>[Premium] Attack detection (get a warning if someone tries to attack or hack your site).</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
Note: some of those features are premium features. They are only available in paid plans. You can <a href="https://log-hero.com" rel="nofollow ugc">get them here</a>!
</blockquote>
<h4>Analysis in Google Analytics</h4>
All data is safely stored in your Google Analytics account and available even if you won’t continue using Log Hero.
<ul>
<li>Easy filtering of your data in Google Analytics (works with regular expressions, too).</li>
<li>Advanced and fast segment analysis.</li>
<li>Real-time monitoring of your data.</li>
<li>Easy exporting of your data as Excel, CSV, or Google Sheets.</li>
<li>Analysis of large data sets through Google Analytics’ API.</li>
<li>Easy setup of dashboards and alerts.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Monitoring critical technical issues</h4>
Log Hero helps you to identify many issues concerning technical optimization of your site and can derive quick action items to resolve these.
<ul>
<li>Which bots crawl my site and how often?</li>
<li>Which orphan pages has my site that are never crawled?</li>
<li>Which status codes does my site return to search engines?</li>
<li>Are my robots.txt and sitemap.xml crawled by search engine bots?</li>
<li>Do search engine bots crawl my page with a desktop or mobile device?</li>
<li>How long does the bot need to download the resources of my site?</li>
<li>How many users does my normal Google Analytics system not track because they have disabled the tracker or Javascript?</li>
<li>and much more. Visit <a href="https://log-hero.com" rel="nofollow ugc">log-hero.com</a>! for more information</li>
</ul>
<h3>Bug reports</h3>
Bug reports for Log Hero are <a href="https://github.com/LogHero/lh-wp-plugin/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">appreciated on GitHub</a>. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, and issues that aren’t adequately qualified as bugs are closed.
<h3>Further Reading</h3>
For more information about logs or this plugin, visit the <a href="https://log-hero.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Log-Hero</a> homepage.

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Cool stuff I can exactly see my Logs in Analytics and check if the Googlebot is crawling my page correct.

Funny: Interesting how many Attacks on my Page I can see

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