Block AI Crawlers

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1. ★★★★★ veggiegusto

   2mo ago

   very useful, thank you

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2. ★★★★★ pizienolamitica

   2mo ago

   Please, add a feature to block the Google Al Overview and the same block for Bing index. Thanks

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3. ★★★★★ kotoedo

   1.1y ago

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

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4. ★★★★★ kiyasu

   1.3y ago

   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!

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5. ★★★★★ scbv

   1.8y ago

   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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6. ★★★★★ gfields108

   2.1y ago

   A simple plugin that asks (via the WordPress robot.txt file) multiple AI crawlers to leave your site alone. Just works and saves much trouble manually updating the robots.txt file.

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7. ★★★★★ sginsbe

   2.3y ago

   Does what it says on the tin. Very much appreciated, thank you!

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Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-08-08 900+ → 1K+ up after 21 days in tier
2. 2025-07-18 800+ → 900+ up after 39 days in tier
3. 2025-06-09 700+ → 800+ up after 53 days in tier
4. 2025-04-17 600+ → 700+ up after 37 days in tier
5. 2025-03-11 500+ → 600+ up after 44 days in tier
6. 2025-01-26 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2025-01-25 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
8. 2025-01-23 400+ → 500+ up after 61 days in tier

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Block AI Crawlers: 1K+ active installs, 4.4★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/block-ai-crawlers