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Block Feed and Comments via robots.txt

by apasionados · Uncategorized

Blocks some Feed and Comment resources in order to avoid spam bots

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 11/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 62 average across 5,397 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

55 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 20/100
WP compatibility 60/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1028 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-34% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

27

now · peak 135

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Block Feed and Comme · #24833 Block Archive.org vi · #9418 Block Chat GPT via r · #15991 Robots.txt rewrite · #5875

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “20+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈26

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,369 observations

Details

Version
1.2.0
Last updated
2.8y ago
Added
2020-08-29 · 5 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.0.1
Tested up to
6.3.8
Requires PHP
7.1

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-26 30+ → 20+ down after 4 days in band
  2. 2026-06-22 20+ → 30+ up after 3 days in band
  3. 2026-06-19 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in band
  4. 2026-06-18 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
  5. 2026-06-17 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in band
  6. 2026-06-16 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in band
  7. 2026-06-14 30+ → 20+ down after 40 days in band
  8. 2026-05-05 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in band

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Block Feed and Comments via robots.txt: 20+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/block-feed-and-comments-via-robots-txt