Temso AI

Temso captures every request your WordPress origin serves over HTTP and sends it to Temso in the background. No DNS changes, no extra infrastructure — install, paste two values, done.
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<li>Captures all server-side requests — front-end, wp-admin, REST, AJAX, login, xmlrpc. Bot classification happens in Temso.</li>
<li>Non-blocking, batched delivery — adds no perceptible latency to your pages.</li>
<li>No cookies, no JavaScript, no client-side tracking.</li>
<li>Visitor IPs are sent over TLS and hashed in Temso before storage; raw IPs are never retained.</li>
<li>WordPress Multisite supported (activate and connect per site).</li>
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Learn more at <a href="https://temso.ai/" rel="nofollow ugc">temso.ai</a>.
Requests served from full-page cache never reach PHP and therefore can’t be captured by any origin plugin — this is expected and matches the documented CDN-cache limitation.
<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin sends the following per HTTP request that WordPress serves (front-end, wp-admin, REST, AJAX, login, xmlrpc) to the Temso API endpoint you configure: timestamp, request URL, HTTP method, response status, user agent, referer, and the visitor IP address. The IP address is transmitted over TLS and hashed by Temso before storage — it is never stored in raw form, and the plugin sets no cookies and adds no client-side tracking.

Stream front-end request logs from your WordPress origin to Temso so AI-crawler and bot traffic shows up in your dashboard.

Chris Klosowski

Pretty simple. Just blocks semalt.semalt.com with a 403.
If your web host uses a web server that doesn’t support .htaccess, then this plugin is for you.
If your host supports .htaccess, you should try https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-semalt, as this is the best method.

WP Block Semalt

Simply uses the HTTP_REFERER to determine if it's from 'Semalt', and blocks it with a nice 403 "Unauthorized" response.

Temso AI vs WP Block Semalt