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LLMS Central Bot Tracker helps you understand which AI systems are visiting your website and gives you control over how AI companies use your content.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Track 16+ AI Bots – Monitor visits from GPTBot, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and more</li>
<li>Real-time Analytics – See which AI bots are crawling your site and when</li>
<li>llms.txt Management – Create and manage your llms.txt file (the “robots.txt for AI”)</li>
<li>Privacy-Focused – Only tracks bot user-agents, no personal data collected</li>
<li>Dashboard Widget – View AI bot activity right in your WordPress dashboard</li>
<li>Easy Setup – One-click installation, no coding required</li>
</ul>
<h4>What is llms.txt?</h4>
llms.txt is like robots.txt, but for AI systems. It tells AI companies how they can use your content for training their models. With this plugin, you can:
<ul>
<li>Allow or restrict AI training on your content</li>
<li>Require attribution when AI uses your content</li>
<li>Set commercial use policies</li>
<li>Provide contact information for AI companies</li>
</ul>
<h4>Tracked AI Bots</h4>
<ul>
<li>GPTBot (OpenAI)</li>
<li>ChatGPT-User (OpenAI)</li>
<li>Claude-Web (Anthropic)</li>
<li>Google-Extended (Google)</li>
<li>Perplexity Bot</li>
<li>Bytespider (ByteDance)</li>
<li>Cohere AI</li>
<li>FacebookBot (Meta)</li>
<li>Amazonbot</li>
<li>And 8+ more AI crawlers</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy & Data Collection</h4>
This plugin is designed with privacy in mind:
Data Collection is OPT-IN ONLY: 
No data is sent to external servers unless you explicitly enable tracking and provide consent in the plugin settings.
When Tracking is Enabled (with your consent): 
* Bot user-agent strings 
* Page URLs visited by bots 
* Timestamp of visits 
* Your domain name
Data NOT Collected: 
* Visitor IP addresses 
* Personal information 
* Cookies or tracking identifiers 
* Form submissions 
* Human visitor data
You can disable tracking at any time, and no data will be transmitted without your explicit permission.
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Content Creators – Know which AI systems are using your content</li>
<li>Publishers – Monitor AI bot traffic and set training policies</li>
<li>Developers – Track AI crawler behavior on your site</li>
<li>SEO Professionals – Understand AI bot impact on your site</li>
<li>Business Owners – Control how AI companies use your content</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
This plugin sends data to LLMS Central servers (https://llmscentral.com) for analytics purposes.
Data Sent: 
* Bot user-agent strings 
* Page URLs visited by bots 
* Timestamp of visits 
* Your domain name
Data NOT Sent: 
* Visitor IP addresses 
* Personal information 
* Cookies or tracking identifiers 
* Form submissions 
* Human visitor data
You must explicitly consent to this data collection by checking the consent box in the plugin settings. You can revoke consent at any time by disabling the plugin.
For full details, see our <a href="https://llmscentral.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://llmscentral.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the following external service:
LLMS Central API (https://llmscentral.com) 
* Purpose: Send AI bot tracking data and retrieve analytics (OPT-IN ONLY) 
* Privacy Policy: https://llmscentral.com/privacy 
* Terms of Service: https://llmscentral.com/terms 
* Data Transmission: Only when tracking is explicitly enabled by the user
This plugin does NOT send any data to external servers by default. Connection to LLMS Central servers only occurs when you: 
1. Enable the “Bot Tracking” feature in settings 
2. Accept the privacy policy and provide explicit consent 
3. Check the consent checkbox
Without your explicit consent, the plugin operates entirely locally on your WordPress site.
<h3>Support</h3>
For support, please visit:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://llmscentral.com/wordpress-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/llms-central-ai-bot-tracker/" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://llmscentral.com/dashboard" rel="nofollow ugc">LLMS Central Dashboard</a> (requires free account)</li>
<li><a href="https://llmscentral.com/getting-started" rel="nofollow ugc">Getting Started Guide</a></li>
</ul>
Before requesting support, please: 
1. Check the FAQ section above in this readme 
2. Ensure you’re using the latest version 
3. Review the plugin settings in WordPress admin 
4. Check the WordPress debug log for errors 
5. Visit the WordPress.org support forum for community help
<h3>Credits</h3>
Developed by the LLMS Central team. Visit <a href="https://llmscentral.com" rel="nofollow ugc">llmscentral.com</a> to learn more about AI training policies and llms.txt files.

LLMS Central – AI Bot Tracker

Track AI bots (GPT, Claude, Gemini) visiting your site and manage your llms.txt file. See which AI systems are crawling your content.

Jeff Starr

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✨ Trap bad bots in a virtual black hole
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Important: Do NOT use this plugin on sites with caching. <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-do-not-use-on-sites-with-caching/" rel="ugc">Learn more »</a>
👾 Bye bye bad bots..
Bad bots are the worst. They do all sorts of nasty stuff and waste server resources. The Blackhole plugin helps to stop bad bots and save precious resources for legit visitors.
👾 How does it work?
First the plugin adds a hidden trigger link to the footer of your pages. You then add a line to your robots.txt file that forbids all bots from following the hidden link. Bots that then ignore or disobey your robots rules will crawl the link and fall into the trap. Once trapped, bad bots are denied further access to your WordPress site.
I call it the “one-strike” rule: bots have one chance to obey your site’s robots.txt rule. Failure to comply results in immediate banishment. The best part is that the Blackhole only affects bad bots: human users never see the hidden link, and good bots obey the robots rules in the first place. Win-win! 🙂
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✨ Add a blackhole trap to help stop bad bots
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Important: Do NOT use this plugin on sites with caching. <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-do-not-use-on-sites-with-caching/" rel="ugc">Learn more »</a>
👾 Features
<ul>
<li>Easy to set up</li>
<li>Squeaky clean code</li>
<li>Focused and modular</li>
<li>Lightweight, fast and flexible</li>
<li>Built with the WordPress API</li>
<li>Works with other security plugins</li>
<li>Easy to reset the list of bad bots</li>
<li>Easy to delete any bot from the list</li>
<li>Regularly updated and “future proof”</li>
<li>Blackhole link includes “nofollow” attribute</li>
<li>Plugin options configurable via settings screen</li>
<li>Works silently behind the scenes to protect your site</li>
<li>Whitelists all major search engines to never block</li>
<li>Focused on flexibility, performance, and security</li>
<li>Email alerts with WHOIS lookup for blocked bots</li>
<li>Complete inline documentation via the Help tab</li>
<li>Provides setting to whitelist any IP addresses</li>
<li>Customize the message displayed to bad bots 😉</li>
<li>One-click restore the plugin default options</li>
<li>Does NOT use or require any .htaccess rules</li>
</ul>
Blackhole for Bad Bots protects your site against bad bots, spammers, scrapers, scanners, and other automated threats.
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✨ Not using WordPress? Check out the <a href="https://perishablepress.com/blackhole-bad-bots/" rel="nofollow ugc">standalone PHP version of Blackhole</a>!
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👾 Whitelist
By default, this plugin does NOT block any of the major search engines (user agents):
<ul>
<li>AOL.com</li>
<li>Baidu</li>
<li>Bingbot/MSN</li>
<li>DuckDuckGo</li>
<li>Googlebot</li>
<li>Teoma</li>
<li>Yahoo!</li>
<li>Yandex</li>
</ul>
These search engines (and all of their myriad variations) are whitelisted via user agent. So are a bunch of other “useful” bots. They always are allowed full access to your site, even if they disobey your robots.txt rules. This list can be customized in the plugin settings. For a complete list of whitelisted bots, visit the Help tab in the plugin settings (under “Whitelist Settings”).
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✨ Check out <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/blackhole-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Blackhole Pro</a> and level up with advanced features!
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👾 Exclusive Pro Features
<ul>
<li>Option to disable for logged-in users</li>
<li>Threshold control (number of allowed hits)</li>
<li>Custom email alerts</li>
<li>Custom messages for blocked bots</li>
<li>Custom redirect for blocked bots</li>
<li>Custom blackhole trigger links</li>
<li>Complete inline documentation</li>
<li>Block bots based on user agent</li>
<li>Block bots based on IP address</li>
<li>Whitelist/allow bots by user agent</li>
<li>Whitelist/allow bots by IP address</li>
<li>Redirect whitelisted bots</li>
<li>Set custom HTTP Status Code</li>
<li>Full-featured Bad Bot Log with paging, sorting, and field search</li>
<li>Manually add bad bots to the Bad Bot Log</li>
<li>Geo/IP location lookups for each bad bot</li>
<li>Logs number of blocked hits for each bot</li>
</ul>
..plus everything the free version can do and more.
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✨ Learn more and <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/blackhole-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">get Blackhole Pro »</a>
</blockquote>
👾 Privacy
User Data: This plugin automatically blocks bad bots. When bad bots fall into the trap, their IP address, user agent, and other request data are stored in the WP database. No other user data is collected by this plugin. At any time, the administrator may delete all saved data via the plugin settings.
Services: This plugin does not connect to any third-party locations or services.
Cookies: This plugin does not set any cookies.
Credit: Header Image Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Blackhole for Bad Bots is developed and maintained by <a href="https://x.com/perishable" rel="nofollow ugc">Jeff Starr</a>, 15-year <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress developer</a> and <a href="https://books.perishablepress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">book author</a>.
👾 Support development
I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can <a href="https://monzillamedia.com/donate.html" rel="nofollow ugc">make a donation</a> or purchase one of my books:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wp-tao.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">The Tao of WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digwp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Digging into WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://htaccessbook.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">.htaccess made easy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wp-tao.com/wordpress-themes-book/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Themes In Depth</a></li>
<li><a href="https://books.perishablepress.com/downloads/wizards-collection-sql-recipes-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress</a></li>
</ul>
And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/bbq-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">BBQ Pro</a> – Blazing fast WordPress firewall</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/blackhole-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Blackhole Pro</a> – Automatically block bad bots</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/banhammer-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Banhammer Pro</a> – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/ga-google-analytics-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">GA Google Analytics Pro</a> – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/head-meta-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Head Meta Pro</a> – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/rest-pro-tools/" rel="nofollow ugc">REST Pro Tools</a> – Awesome tools for managing the WP REST API</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/simple-ajax-chat-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Ajax Chat Pro</a> – Unlimited chat rooms</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/usp-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">USP Pro</a> – Unlimited front-end forms</li>
</ul>
Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thank you! 🙂

Blackhole for Bad Bots

Отличный инструмент

Simple. I install this every time I spin up a new WordPress site.

Simple

Blackhole is a WordPress security plugin that detects and traps bad bots in a virtual black hole, where they are denied access to your entire site.

LLMS Central – AI Bot Tracker vs Blackhole for Bad Bots