Booter – Bots & Crawlers Manager

I didnt check all its features, but was looking into the code for its AI Crawler “Protection”: All it does is grab two GIANT lists from “mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker” repo, one for crawlers one for referrers, and if the user agent or referrer matches, block it lmao

No behavior detection, no actual protections in place, and probably adds some 50MB memory usage to each of your wordpress instances because of the download of said lists

Booter would have gotten 5 stars because it does exactly what it says. The problem I find when I use my firewall’s facility that shows me what traffic has occurred, it normally displays data about the host (if known) and what was being accessed, giving me the option to permanently block the IP address, using only 3 mouse clicks. When Booter is involved, all I get to see is a page with the code involved (403,410, 429, etc). That means I have to use an external app to look up the IP address, and then, go to the firewall’s page for entering permanent blocks, entering them. If the number of IP addresses is numerous, that increases the amount of time needed. I’ll continue to use it until I find something that stops crawlers while making running the site easier.

Useful . I hope you won’t abandon the plugin and will update it regularly. There has been no update for a year.

I got this for Rate Limiting and I must say it works. I had so many bots scraping my site it crashed every day. However, when a legit user accidently got booted, there was no way to clear them.

Also, in the forum there are some great questions (like “how to whitelist IP”) but they are left unanswered so I have to give it 4 stars.

Kudos to this development team for creating a very SIMPLE, highly COMPREHENSIVE, and phenominally effective plugin. We tested a dozen and this is the best.