AI Bot Monitor Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

AI Bot Monitor tracks and logs visits from major AI crawlers, search bots, and social preview bots — such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Googlebot, Bingbot, Paddle/Bytespider, and Meta/Facebook.

It offers a clean admin dashboard showing today’s activity, an AI-Layer overview highlighting key retrieval signatures (including Chrome/141 used by modern AI assistants), automatic log rotation, and a one-click ZIP export.

Features:
* Detects AI, Search, and Social bots (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Googlebot, Bingbot, Paddle, etc.)
* AI-Layer overview (incl. Chrome/141, GPTBot, CCBot, PerplexityBot)
* Daily auto-rotation (keeps last 30 days)
* Admin dashboard with recent activity table
* ZIP export of all logs
* Single + Multisite compatible
* Works as standard plugin or MU-plugin
* Path-safe (plugin_dir_path() / uploads dir) and sanitized inputs

Installation

Upload the plugin to /wp-content/plugins/ai-bot-monitor/, or
drop ai-bot-monitor.php into /wp-content/mu-plugins/ to auto-load it.
Activate the plugin via Plugins (if not using MU mode).
Go to Dashboard AI Bot Monitor to view logs and export ZIPs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where are logs stored?

In your WordPress uploads directory: /uploads/ai-bot-monitor/, one CSV per day (log-YYYY-MM-DD.csv).

How does the AI-Layer overview work?

It scans today’s user agents for well-known retrieval/crawler signatures (e.g. Chrome/141, GPTBot, CCBot, PerplexityBot) and counts hits.

Can I exclude my own IPs?

Yes. Add to your theme or a small plugin:
add_filter(‘ai_bot_monitor_ip_whitelist’, fn($w)=>array_merge($w, [‘123.123.123.123’]));

Does it impact performance?

Minimal. The plugin writes lightweight, line-based logs and skips admin, AJAX, and cron requests.
Key Features

Automatic MU-Plugin Migration – activates once, moves itself to /mu-plugins/ for guaranteed uptime

AI Crawler Detection – GPTBot, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, CCBot, Applebot, and 40 + more

Daily CSV Logging – per-day files auto-rotated (30-day retention)

Dashboard Overview – live stats with AI-layer grouping (e.g. Chrome/141 for ChatGPT)

ZIP Export – one-click archive download for all logs

Lightweight – no external calls, no database writes, pure file-based logging

Privacy-safe – no user tracking, only bot metadata

⚙️ How It Works

Upload ai-bot-monitor.zip through Plugins Add New Upload Plugin.

Activate the plugin.

On activation, it:

Creates /wp-content/mu-plugins/ai-bot-monitor-loader.php

Deactivates the normal plugin copy

Loads itself once via MU-plugin

Visit Dashboard AI Bot Monitor to view daily logs.

If filesystem permissions block MU-loader creation, the plugin continues as a normal plugin until permissions allow migration.

📊 Dashboard Overview

The dashboard groups detected crawlers by signature, including:

Signature Description
GPTBot OpenAI crawler
Chrome/141 ChatGPT / Copilot retrieval layer
Chrome/134 Perplexity / Bing AI layer
Claude Anthropic web/app crawler
CCBot Common Crawl (training datasets)
Googlebot, Bingbot Search engine crawlers
Bytespider TikTok / ByteDance crawler

You can export all logs anytime with “Download All Logs (ZIP)”.

🗂 Log Storage

Logs are written to
/wp-content/uploads/ai-bot-monitor/log-YYYY-MM-DD.csv

Each entry includes:

time, ip, user_agent, url

Old files older than 30 days are automatically deleted.

🔒 Security & Performance

Runs on init hook with early priority 0

Doesn’t touch the database

Compatible with caching and static HTML plugins

Does not expose data publicly

Only administrators can access the dashboard and export

🪶 Changelog
1.4

Complete rewrite with auto-migration to MU-plugin

Prevented double-load across plugin/MU contexts

Added success notice after migration

Hardened Zip export (ZIP extension check)

Code cleanup for WordPress.org submission compliance

1.3 1.4 migration note

If a previous version exists, the new installer will safely create the MU-loader and deactivate the old instance automatically.

📜 License

This plugin is open-source and distributed under the GNU GPL v2 or later.
You are free to use, modify, and redistribute under the same license.

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