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!

senols

PufferSights monitors 100+ known AI crawler and AI agent user agents, hashes IP addresses, groups traffic by bot, provider, crawl purpose, content type, and response status, tracks human referrals from AI surfaces, and can publish a dynamic llms.txt content map for public site content.
The dashboard summarizes:
<ul>
<li>HTTP traffic by bot.</li>
<li>Crawl purpose.</li>
<li>Content type.</li>
<li>Response status.</li>
<li>AI referrals and crawl-to-refer ratio.</li>
<li>Top crawled content.</li>
<li>Tracked agent count.</li>
<li>Dynamic llms.txt content map.</li>
<li>robots.txt audit and policy snippets.</li>
</ul>
The crawler registry is based on current public operator documentation and industry references for OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google, Apple, Common Crawl, Meta, ByteDance, Microsoft, Amazon, and related AI crawler operators.
The plugin does not contact any external service. All analytics data is stored in your own WordPress database.
robots.txt publishing is off by default. The plugin can generate and optionally publish policies for:
<ul>
<li>Monitor only.</li>
<li>Block training crawlers.</li>
<li>Allow AI search/user-action bots while blocking training crawlers.</li>
<li>Block all known AI bots.</li>
</ul>
llms.txt publishing is on by default and can be disabled in the PufferSights settings. The generated <code>/llms.txt</code> file lists selected published public pages and posts in Markdown so AI assistants can find the site’s main public content more easily.
<h3>Important Notes</h3>
User-agent detection is not bot verification. User agents can be spoofed. Raw IP addresses are not stored; the plugin stores a salted hash for rough uniqueness.
robots.txt is voluntary. Use a WAF, CDN, or server-level controls when technical enforcement is required.
Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended are robots.txt control tokens rather than normal request user agents, so they appear in robots.txt audits and policy snippets but usually do not appear in request logs.
llms.txt is a content map, not an access-control policy. It does not replace robots.txt and does not force AI systems to use or cite your content.
<h3>Privacy</h3>
PufferSights stores local analytics for public, logged-out requests only. It does not track wp-admin pages, logged-in users, AJAX requests, or WP-Cron requests.
The plugin stores:
<ul>
<li>Request time and date.</li>
<li>Event type, such as AI crawler request or AI referral.</li>
<li>HTTP method.</li>
<li>Request path without query string.</li>
<li>HTTP response status.</li>
<li>MIME/content group.</li>
<li>Matched crawler or AI referral provider.</li>
<li>User-agent string and user-agent hash.</li>
<li>Salted one-way hash of the request IP address.</li>
<li>Referrer origin only, such as <code>https://chatgpt.com</code>, without referrer path or query string.</li>
</ul>
The plugin does not store raw IP addresses, cookies, browser local storage, or complete referrer URLs. It does not send analytics, telemetry, crawler records, or site data to third-party services.
If llms.txt publishing is enabled, the plugin serves a Markdown overview of selected published public posts and pages at <code>/llms.txt</code>. Drafts, private posts, and password-protected posts are not included.
Administrators can disable tracking, clear captured events, and configure retention from the PufferSights admin page. The default retention period is 90 days. On uninstall, the plugin removes its custom analytics table, saved options, and scheduled cleanup hook.
The plugin also adds suggested disclosure text to WordPress’ Privacy Policy Guide.

PufferSights – AI Crawler Insights

Monitor 100+ known AI crawler and AI agent user agents with local analytics, AI referrals, llms.txt, and opt-in robots.txt policy tools.

CeeWP Robots.txt Manager vs PufferSights – AI Crawler Insights