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Robots.txt rewrite

by Eugen Bobrowski · Uncategorized

Also makes 2 other plugins · 1.4K+ installs across the portfolio →

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Provide the easy managment of your robots.txt from admin side. It propose you the advanced then standard robots.txt content too.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

1K+

Active installs

≈1.9K estimated

36.0K

Total downloads

since 2016

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+83%

132

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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

  • Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.35, well behind 6.8.

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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 8/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3196 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+83% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

132

now · peak 239

13430d downloads · Aug 26

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

Robots.txt rewrite · #5753 you Block Archive.org vi · #9357 Block Chat GPT via r · #15991 Block eCommerce Asse · #16591

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

134per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

9.5y ago

latest release · v1.6.1

7

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.6.1 · 9.5y ago1.6 · 9.5y ago1.5 · 9.6y ago1.4 · 10.0y ago1.3 · 10.1y ago1.2 · 10.2y ago1.1 · 10.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 96% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.6 96%
Older / other versions 3.9%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

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

Install history · since 2016-12-18 · 1,417 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.6.1
Last updated
8.8y ago
Added
2016-05-03 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
4.7
Tested up to
4.7.35
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ jcarstens
    9.1y ago

    I like it too!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ Eugen Bobrowski
    10.3y ago

    I like my plugin

    Read on wp.org ↗

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. Medium · 4.3 Robots.txt rewrite <= 1.6.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
    2025-12-31 CVE-2025-62148 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.6.1 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Ukrainian 4%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-04-23 2K+ → 1K+ down after 664 days in tier
  2. 2023-06-29 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2023-06-28 2K+ → 3K+ up after 7 days in tier
  4. 2023-06-21 3K+ → 2K+ down

Competes with

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