nicolly

<p>Monitor your website for added, changed and deleted files! Track changes in all website directories and get email alerts! Stay secure for free!</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Monitoring file system for added / deleted / changed files.</li>
<li>Tracking changes of the file size, modification date, permissions, file content.</li>
<li>Sending email with the detailed information when changes are detected.</li>
<li>Displaying monitor alerts in the administration area.</li>
<li>Monitoring files for changes based on file hash, time stamp and/or file size.</li>
<li>Excluding files and directories from scan.</li>
<li>Allows to run the file checking via an external cron so not to slow down visits to your website and to give greater flexibility over scheduling.</li>
<li>Allows to include / exclude files from scanning by extension.</li>
<li>Properly tracks broken symlinks and unreadable files.</li>
<li>Multisite compatible (plugin settings are located under the Settings menu of the main website).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Keep Your Website Secure</h4>
<p>This simple but functional plugin allows you to monitor your entire WP installation for unwanted file changes (even for file permissions change!) and promptly notify you in case of something. Everyone whose website was hacked once knows how it is complicated to detect infiltration on initial stage and to find all changes in the file system. This plugin does a job.</p>
<p>Be sure to install it on malware-free website, set correct ‘File Check Root’ in plugin’s settings, and make sure all check-boxes in ‘File Check Method’ are ticed for file changes better recognizing.</p>
<h4>PRO Features (coming soon)</h4>
<ul>
<li>SMS alerts</li>
<li>Launching monitoring via cron</li>
<li>Sending email alerts to different emails based on directories</li>
<li>If you need any other features just create a ticket on forum</li>
</ul>
<p>PRO version costs $2 and includes lifetime updates. If you would like to buy PRO version please email at <a href="mailto:skyguiatar+wp@gmail.com" rel="nofollow ugc">skyguiatar+wp@gmail.com</a></p>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Arabic</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Japanese</li>
</ul>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>Thanks to the <a href="https://likebtn.com/en/wordpress-like-button-plugin?utm_source=wfm3_readme&utm_campaign=wfm3_readme" title="WordPress Like Button Rating Plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">LikeBtn</a> for providing a rating feature for my plugin.</p>


WordPress File Monitor

Good plugin

Go and install it right away! You have no idea how much time you'd save by doing it NOW!

Best plugin to log, track, and monitor the file changes.

Background:

Earlier, I was using a plugin that contained file monitoring as one of the features. That plugin was heavily bloated with numerous other features that I wouldn't use. Have been looking for a dedicated plugin for files monitoring. This fits my use case perfectly. What's more the author of this plugin, @nicolly, is responsive on the support forum, even though he's not obliged to do so as this is a free plugin. Even my stupid feature request was accepted and fixed the underlying problem in my own workflow.

This is a gem. Currently, switching it in place of the other plugin on all my clients' sites!

Will save your precious time some day!

Does what it says :)

Monitor your website for added, changed and deleted files! Track changes in all website directories and get email alerts! Stay secure for free!

Known Agents

<p>Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.</p>
<h3>Track, control, and optimize your website for AI agents and bots</h3>
<p>You have <a href="https://knownagents.com/insights" rel="nofollow ugc">40% more visitors than you think</a>. Protect your content from unwanted AI scraping, and turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots visiting your website into a new growth channel for your business. For full details, visit the <a href="https://knownagents.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Known Agents</a> website.</p>
<h3>1. AI Agent & Bot Analytics</h3>
<p>Get realtime visibility into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, and AI agents browsing your website</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Watch traffic from crawlers and scrapers as it happens</strong>: Track the hidden activity of <a href="https://knownagents.com/agents" rel="nofollow ugc">all known artificial agents</a> visiting your website in real time.</li>
<li><strong>Replay AI agent navigation patterns</strong>: Follow a single agent’s session as it navigates your website. Find where agents get stuck, identify dead ends, and help them complete their tasks.</li>
<li><strong>Catch bots spoofing legitimate agents</strong>: Identify bad actors and unauthorized scrapers pretending to be legitimate agents like Googlebot or Bingbot.</li>
<li><strong>Never miss a bot traffic spike</strong>: Stay informed when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server.</li>
<li><strong>Reveal which agents visit most, and which pages they target</strong>: Break down bot traffic by page to understand what they’re interested in.</li>
<li><strong>Export reports to CSV</strong>: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. LLM Citation & Referral Tracking (GEO, AEO)</h3>
<p>Measure citations and human click-throughs from AI chat platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Increase citations in AI chat responses</strong>: See which pages LLMs recommend most often. Double down on content that’s working.</li>
<li><strong>Find out which AI platforms are sending you traffic</strong>: Measure how many humans are clicking through to your website from a citation.</li>
<li><strong>Export reports to CSV</strong>: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Automatic Robots.txt & Bad Bot Detection</h3>
<p>Protect your content and reduce server cost by serving a robots.txt that updates continuously</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Set robots.txt rules for entire categories of bots</strong>: Control access for entire agent categories including AI crawlers, scrapers, SEO bots, and more. One selection covers every current and future agent in that group.</li>
<li><strong>We track new bots, you don’t have to</strong>: Your robots.txt is updated as new agents emerge, so you never have to manage them yourself or make manual edits.</li>
<li><strong>Block misbehaving crawlers and scrapers</strong>: Detect and block bots that ignore your robots.txt rules using the WordPress plugin, or our automation detectors.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demos</h3>
<p>Demos can be found on the <a href="https://knownagents.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">home page</a>.</p>
<h3>Further Details</h3>
<p>This plugin connects your website to <a href="https://knownagents.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Known Agents</a>. It uses the Known Agents API to connect to your account and provide functionality.</p>
<p>By signing up, you agree to the <a href="https://knownagents.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://knownagents.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
<p>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>! Questions or issues? <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/" rel="ugc">Ask us for help</a>.</p>


Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic


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

Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.

WordPress File Monitor vs Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic