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Block AI Crawlers

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Protect Your Content from AI Scraping

This plugin tells AI companies not to crawl your site for their products via standard robots.txt rules.

Features

Blocks AI Bots and Crawlers

The plugin blocks dozens of AI bots via your site’s robots.txt file. You can toggle the blocks for each individual crawler.

Blocked crawlers include:

  • OpenAI – Blocks crawlers used for ChatGPT
  • Google – Blocks crawlers used by Google’s Gemini AI products
  • Meta – Blocks FacebookBot and Meta training crawlers
  • Anthropic – Blocks crawlers used by Claude
  • Perplexity – Blocks crawlers used by Perplexity
  • Apple – Blocks Applebot-Extended
  • Amazon – Blocks Amazonbot
  • …and 150+ more via ai.robots.txt

The blocked crawler list is generated at build time from ai.robots.txt (robots.json, MIT). See the plugin’s README.md for license attribution.

Experimental Meta Tags

The plugin adds the experimental “noai, noimageai” directive to your site’s meta tags. You can toggle this on and off as needed.

Custom robots.txt Rules

Have custom entries for your robots.txt file? You can now add them directly through the plugin!

Usage

After activation, the plugin will automatically update your robots.txt and add the necessary meta tags. No further configuration is required, but you can check the settings page for a full list of blocked crawlers.

Limitations

While this plugin aims to block specified crawlers, it cannot guarantee complete protection against all forms of scraping, as some bots may disregard robots.txt directives.

Support

For questions or support, please post on the forums.

স্ক্ৰীনশ্বট

Plugin page showing which crawlers are blocked
Plugin page showing which crawlers are blocked

ইনষ্টলেশ্যন

  1. Download the plugin zip file.
  2. Go to your WordPress admin panel.
  3. Navigate to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
  4. Choose the zip file and click “Install Now.”
  5. Activate the plugin.1. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  6. Once installed the plugin is automatically activated. There are no user configured settings
  7. You can view more about what crawlers are being blocked at “Settings > Block AI Crawlers”. You can also toggle blocking of individual crawlers.

সঘনাই উত্থাপিত প্ৰশ্ন

Will this remove my site from existing data sets?

No. It tells bots and crawlers that your site shouldn’t be used for future training and new datasets. However, it is up to the AI companies to resepect this.

How does this work?

The plugin adds directives to the robots.txt file to tell AI crawlers that they shouldn’t index your site. It also adds the noai meta tag to your site’s header to do the same.

How often is this updated?

The block list is generated from the ai.robots.txt project. When that upstream list changes, a GitHub Action opens an issue so the plugin can be rebuilt and released.

What if I already have a `robots.txt` file on my web server?

If you have a physical robots.txt file on your web server, you won’t be able to activate this plugin. The plugin only works when using WordPress’ built-in virtual robots.txt.

Will this work with other plugins that modify the virtual `robots.txt`?

It should in theory. It just appends the directives to the robots.txt file.

Will this prevent my site from being indexed by search engines?

No. Search engines follow different robots.txt rules.

My `robots.txt` isn’t updated after toggling blocks!

The robots.txt file can be cached via your web server, a plugin, or CDN (for example, Cloudflare). Once the cache period expires, the updated robots.txt will be served.

You can test by running the following on the command line:

curl -sSL 'https://example.com/robots.txt' && echo

পৰ্য্যালোচনা

too blunt a tool

জুলাই 23, 2026 1টা প্ৰত্যুত্তৰ
Simple, but you’re stuck with their blocklist with no way to edit it to allow desired access.

thank you!

জুলাই 14, 2026 1টা প্ৰত্যুত্তৰ
very useful, thank you

Useful plugin

জুলাই 18, 2025 1টা প্ৰত্যুত্তৰ
Great plugin, used it with the opposite intention; i.e., to quickly obtain a list of AI crawlers to later allow on a website 😉

Thank You

মে’ 6, 2025 1টা প্ৰত্যুত্তৰ
Seems to do what it does, and let’s hope as many sites and companies would obey the robots.txt file. I did have to remove or rename my hand-typed robots.txt file for this work, but after that, I am very happy with the results. My only “issue” with the newly created robots.txt file is that it includes extra lines like the Sitemap line that I want to change, but this may or may not be related to this plugin and I’ll figure out how to change those other parts of the robots.txt. Anyway, I like using this plugin together with the “Disabled Source, Disabled Right Click and Content Protection” plugin. Very happy with the results these two plugins did for my Woocommerce store!

Excellent, much needed and off to a good start

নৱেম্বৰ 13, 2024
Really appreciate this plugin. Have had it for about 1 month, great to see new updates getting pushed out. The one feature would love to see is how to append or edit to the virtual robots.txt file. Tried using “Block AI Crawlers” plugin in conjunction with the plugin “Virtual Robots.txt” and it’s one or the other, can’t use both. “Virtual Robots.txt” overrides “Block AI Crawlers”.
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সলনি-পঞ্জী

1.6.1 – 08/01/2026

  • Add: Sync blocked crawler list from ai.robots.txt (remove IbouBot)
  • Update: Replace screenshot

1.6.0 – 07/24/2026

  • New: Per-crawler toggles to opt individual bots out of robots.txt blocking
  • New: Optional toggle for the experimental noai, noimageai meta tag
  • Enhancement: Sticky header on the blocked crawlers settings table

1.5.8 – 07/15/2026

  • Enhancement: Generate blocked crawler list from ai.robots.txt robots.json at build time
  • Enhancement: Sync admin settings crawler table with the same generated list
  • New: Monitor upstream robots.json and open a GitHub issue when it changes

1.5.7 – 07/04/2026

  • New: Indicate WordPress v7.0 compatibility

1.5.6 – 02/15/2026

  • Fix: Update Claude blocking
  • New: Block MistralAI-user
  • New: Block LinerBot
  • New: Block Google-CloudVertexBot
  • New: Block VelenPublicWebCrawler

1.5.5 – 11/28/2025

  • Indicate WordPress v6.9 compatibility
  • Fix: Variable naming issues identified by Plugin Check

1.5.4

  • Bump version number
  • New: Block Brightbot
  • New: Block DeepSeekBot
  • New: Block TerraCotta
  • Fix: Plugin check errors

1.5.2

  • New: Block Yak
  • New: Block Bigsur.ai
  • New: Block AddSearchBot
  • New: Block Google Agents
  • New: Block Thinkbot
  • New: Block Posideon Research Center
  • New: Block EchoboxBot
  • New: Block Bedrockbot
  • New: Block Panscient
  • New: Block SBIntuitionsBot
  • New: Block PhindBot
  • New: Block YandexAdditional

1.5.1

  • New: Block aiHitBot
  • New: Block Cotoyogi
  • New: Block Factset
  • New: Block Firecrawl
  • New: Block TikTokSpider
  • New: Block Perplexity‑User
  • Update: Meta External Agent and Meta External Fetcher
  • Update: New Claude Bots
  • Update: Indicate WordPress v6.8 compatibility

1.5.0

  • Enhancement: Adds ability for custom robots.txt rules

1.4.3

  • New: Block SemrushBot
  • New: Block Crawlspace

1.4.2

  • New: Block PanguBot

1.4.1

  • New: Block Turnitinbot
  • New: Block Ai2Bot-Dolma
  • Enhancement: WordPress 6.7 compatibility

1.4.0

  • New: Block Kangaroo Bot
  • New: Block sentibot
  • New: Block FriendlyCrawler
  • New: Block Scrapy
  • Fix: Broken link to settings page from Plugins page
  • Enhancement: Improve readme.md and readme.txt

1.3.9

  • New: Block PetalBot
  • New: Block AI2Bot
  • New: Block Webz.io
  • New: Block OpenAI Search Bot (SearchGPT)
  • Enhancement: Alphabetize list of blocked crawlers
  • Enhancement: Indicate compatibility with WordPress v6.6
  • Enhancement: Add quick link to settings and nudge for rating on plugins page

1.3.8

  • Maintenance: Auto-deply from Github fixed / bumped version number

1.3.7

  • New: Meta AI
  • New: Block You.com Crawler
  • New: Block AmazonBot
  • New: Block Timpibot

1.3.6

  • New: Block Perplexity
  • New: Block Apple AI
  • Update: FAQ based on submitted question

1.3.5

  • New: Block additional Omgili bot
  • New: Block Imagesift
  • Fix: Fix settings page
  • Add: blueprint.json for plugin preview

1.3.3

  • Fix: Issue with fatal errors on activation

1.3.1

  • New: Blocks Anthropic’s Claude
  • Fix: Missing external link icons
  • Update: Bump tested to v6.5.3

1.3.0

  • New: Adds settings page showing blocked crawlers
  • Enhancement: Remove crawler description in robots.txt

1.2.2

  • Update: Adds deploy from GitHub

1.2.1

  • Maintenance: Adds deploy from GitHub

1.2.0

  • Block Cohere crawler
  • Block DiffBot crawler
  • Block Anthropic AI crawler
  • Indicate compatibility w/WordPress 6.5.2

1.1.0

  • Blocks additional crawlers.

1.0.0

Initial Release.

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