Block Archive.org via WordPress robots.txt
Blocks the archive.org bots through the WordPress virtual robots.txt file.
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·500 active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, Block Archive.org via WordPress robots.txt is a WordPress bot plugin with 500 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 7.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0.1+ and PHP 5.5+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: Chatbot for WordPress by Collect.chat ⚡️.
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500active installs
7.2K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
This plugin adds lines to the virtual robots.txt file (that WordPress creates automagically if the file is not present physically on the server) to block the archive.org bots.
Please be aware of what this plugin does exactly: If you activate the plugin it will add some lines to the robots.txt file to tell the Archive.org bots not to crawl and index your page. This means that they won’t store a backup of your site and you won’t be able to browse the different versions of the website through time.
Please keep in mind that if you activate this plugin and your site is deleted from the archive.org index, you can’t undo this. If you remove the plugin and the block of the archive.org bot, they’ll start again crawling and indexing the website from that moment, but all the…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.5+ required |
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Changelog
1.3.0 (02feb2026)
- Fix boolean $public handling, improve robots.txt reliability, harden escaping, and make physical robots.txt detection more robust.
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