Jared Pomranky

<p>Staging sites often get accidentally indexed by Google or Bing, leading to duplicate content, keyword cannibalization, and production pages being outranked by staging domains. This plugin prevents that from happening.</p>
<p>Staging Bot Block can:<br />
* Block search engine bots with a 403 response and proper X-Robots-Tag headers.<br />
* Redirect bots (or bots and users) to your production domain when needed.<br />
* Display a persistent warning banner inside the WordPress admin so developers never forget that staging protections are active.<br />
* Support additional user agents through an easy settings field.</p>
<h3>Important Notes for Staging Environments</h3>
<p>If your hosting platform or CDN uses full-page caching (such as Cloudflare APO, WP Rocket’s page cache, or server-level varnish), cached HTML may be served directly without loading WordPress. When this happens, Staging Bot Block cannot inspect user agents, block bots, or send redirect headers.</p>
<p>To ensure correct behavior:<br />
* Disable Cloudflare APO or create a Cache Rule to bypass cache for the staging subdomain or for Googlebot/Bingbot.<br />
* Clear or disable caching plugins on staging.<br />
* Avoid server-level caching for staging domains.</p>
<p>Once caching is disabled or bypassed, all HTML pages will properly return a 403 for blocked bots or a redirect when configured.</p>


Staging Bot Block

Prevent search engines from indexing staging sites by blocking or redirecting bots, with a clear admin warning banner.

Miguel Muller

<p>WordPress analytics Block Spam is a WordPress plugin that blocks the undesirables bots that appear in your referral reports from Google Analytics.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The plugin uses a <a href="https://github.com/miguelsmuller/bot-public-list" rel="nofollow ugc">collaborative public list</a> that is constantly updated to identify and deny malicious connections.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Using the plugin is very simple and you do not need to waste time with many settings.</p>
<h4>Descrição em Português:</h4>
<p>O WordPress Block analytics Spam é um plugin para WordPress que bloqueia os indesejáveis bots que aparecem nos seus relatórios de referência do Google Analytics.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>O plugin usa uma <a href="https://github.com/miguelsmuller/bot-public-list" rel="nofollow ugc">lista pública colaborativa</a> que está em constante atualização para identificar e recusar conexões maliciosas.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>A utilização do plugin é muito simples e não é necessário perder tempo com muitas configurações.</p>
<h3>Instalation/Instalação:</h3>
<p>Check our installation and configuration guide in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-block-analytics-spam/installation/" rel="ugc">Installation tab</a>.</p>
<h3>Public Block list / Lista Pública de Bloqueio</h3>
<p>Help us to extend the <a href="https://github.com/miguelsmuller/bot-public-list" rel="nofollow ugc">list of malicious bots</a></p>
<h3>Question/Dúvidas:</h3>
<p>You can answer your questions using:</p>
<ul>
<li>Our <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-block-analytics-spam/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ session</a>.</li>
<li>Using our <a href="https://github.com/miguelsmuller/wp-block-analytics-spam" rel="nofollow ugc">forum on Github</a>.</li>
<li>Creating a topic in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-block-analytics-spam/" rel="ugc">help forum WordPress</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Block list/Lista de Bloqueio</h3>
<p>You can contribute to the improvement of the blockade helping to extend the <a href="https://github.com/miguelsmuller/bot-public-list" rel="nofollow ugc">list of bots</a>.</p>
<h3>Translate/Tradução</h3>
<p>You can contribute to the translate with <a href="https://www.transifex.com/devim/wordpress-block-analytics-spam/" rel="nofollow ugc">transifex projetct</a>.</p>


WordPress Block Analytics Spam

Stop the Spam bot as semalt and buttons-for-website that appear on Google Analytics and have real reports.

Staging Bot Block vs WordPress Block Analytics Spam