Plugin info

Total downloads: 1,149
Active installs: 10
Total reviews: 2
Average rating: 4.5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 5/27/2025 (218 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 10/27/2022 (3 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.6
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 5.6

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 218 days ago • 2 reviews

40/100

Is crawler-hunter abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 218 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.6
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 5.6

Languages

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Description

Bots and web crawlers coming to your site check the content of the full user agent string, and those that are not on the whitelist will be blocked.
AI crawlers are also blocked.

In addition, you can manually blacklist the IP address. If you enable the automatic IP blocking option, IP addresses that make more than 5 requests in 1 minute will be blocked for 240 minutes (4 hours) by default.
You can change these values here.

Blocked bots include:

  • GPTBot
  • ClaudeBot
  • Amazonbot
  • SemrushBot
  • MJ12bot
  • and more bots…

Installation

Upload the crawler-hunter plugin to your blog and activate

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Changelog

1.1

  • Fixed bugs in php 8.x
  • Tests on WordPress 6.3.1

1.3

  • Tests on WordPress 6.8.1