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Spider Blocker

by Niteo · Blocks

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SpiderBlocker will block most common bots that consume bandwidth and slow down your blog.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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51 Health · D
Maintenance 20/100
Rating quality 73/100
Support 70/100

51 health vs 67 average across 1,682 Blocks plugins

20K+

Active installs

≈29K estimated

618.7K

Total downloads

since 2015

3.93★

Rating (adjusted)

4.0★ raw · 5 reviews

+136%

2.0K

Downloads · 30d

category median +14%

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.

63 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 28/100
WP compatibility 77/100
Rating quality 56/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 844 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+136% vs prior 30d
79Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

2.0K

now · peak 28.1K

2K30d 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

Spider Blocker · #1253 you Redirection · #22 Custom PHP Settings · #1845 Yoast SEO · #2

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4Stars · Aug 26

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.

102per 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

2.3y ago

latest release · v1.3.7

28

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3.7 · 2.3y ago1.3.6 · 2.3y ago1.3.5 · 3.1y ago1.3.4 · 3.1y ago1.3.3 · 3.6y ago1.3.2 · 4.1y ago1.3.1 · 5.5y ago1.3.0 · 5.5y agov1.2.6 · 6.1y agov1.2.5 · 6.1y agov1.2.0 · 6.6y ago1.0.22 · 7.4y ago1.0.19 · 8.0y ago1.0.18 · 8.0y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 92% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.3 92%
v1.2 5.1%
v1.0 2.4%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20K–30K ≈29K

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

Install history · since 2015-12-26 · 1,440 observations

20KInstalls · 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. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Ratings · 5 reviews

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5★
3 4★
0 3★
1 2★
1 1★
0

Details

Version
1.3.7
Last updated
2.3y ago
Added
2015-10-08 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
6.5.10
Requires PHP
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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 3.1 Added prlog.ru bot 3.1
  2. — Version 3.0 Added support for WP v5.6+ 3.0
  3. — Version 2.6 Fix issue with class constants 2.6
  4. — Version 2.5 Visual fixes and code clean-up Added support for LiteSpeed server 2.5
  5. — Version 2.0 Code clean-up Support for the latest version of WordPress 2.0

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.3

✓ 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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-07-11 30K+ → 20K+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2025-07-10 20K+ → 30K+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-07-09 30K+ → 20K+ down after 649 days in tier
  4. 2023-09-29 40K+ → 30K+ down after 59 days in tier
  5. 2023-08-01 30K+ → 40K+ up after 22 days in tier
  6. 2023-07-10 40K+ → 30K+ down after 11 days in tier
  7. 2023-06-29 30K+ → 40K+ up after 19 days in tier
  8. 2023-06-10 40K+ → 30K+ down

Competes with

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