Plugin info

Total downloads: 609,255
Active installs: 20,000
Total reviews: 5
Average rating: 4
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 5/7/2024 (603 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 10/8/2015 (10 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.5.7
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 603 days ago • 5 reviews

28/100

Is Spider Blocker abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 603 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.0
Tested up to: 6.5.7
Requires PHP: f

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Description

Spider Blocker blocks most common bots that consume bandwidth and slow down your blog.
It accomplishes this by using .htaccess file to minimize impact on your website. It’s hidden from external scanners.

Spider Blocker is specifically designed for Apache servers with mod_rewrite enabled, allowing you to effortlessly safeguard your website from the most prevalent bots that hamper performance and drain resources.

Plugin Features

  • Block Unlimited bots from viewing your site
  • Easy Export/Import rules (comes with most common list of bots)
  • Zero Footprint

Installation

  1. Upload ‘spider-blocker’ directory to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Go to Tools menu and then **SpiderBlocker* to configure
  4. If you use any other plugin to edit .htaccess file, make sure that content of file is valid

Frequently Asked Questions

Will rules stay active after I deactivate the plugin?
No, it’s a good practice for plugins to remove all changes they made to the blog, thus rules will also be deleted from .htaccess.

Review feed

Akshit Sethi
1/28/2020

Perfect!

Does what it promises to do. No more bad bots to my WP blog :)

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Changelog

v1.3.1

  • Added prlog.ru bot

v1.3.0

  • Added support for WP v5.6+

v1.2.6

  • Fix issue with class constants

v1.2.5

  • Visual fixes and code clean-up
  • Added support for LiteSpeed server

v1.2.0

  • Code clean-up
  • Support for the latest version of WordPress