As of April 2026, crawler-hunter is a WordPress ban plugin with 10 active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Top alternative: WP-Ban.
4.5/52 reviews
10active installs
1.3K+total downloads
4 yearssince 2022
Overview
Bots and web crawlers coming to your site check the content of the full user agent string, and those that are not on the whitelist will be blocked.
AI crawlers are also blocked.
In addition, you can manually blacklist the IP address. If you enable the automatic IP blocking option, IP addresses that make more than 5 requests in 1 minute will be blocked for 240 minutes (4 hours) by default.
You can change these values here.
Blocked bots include:
- GPTBot
- ClaudeBot
- Amazonbot
- SemrushBot
- MJ12bot
- and more bots…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1
- Fixed bugs in php 8.x
- Tests on WordPress 6.3.1
Contributors
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