crawler-hunter
It is a simple but effective plugin. Stops spam bots by checking browser content. You can also add an ip address to the blacklist.
Plugin info
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Stale • Last updated 218 days ago • 2 reviews
Is crawler-hunter abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 218 days ago).
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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

