Block old browser versions and suspicious browsers
With the help of WhatIsMyBrowser the plugin detects old and bad browsers and denies them access. A special robots.txt denies crawling by bad bots.
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·0 active installs·Updated 4 days agoAs of April 2026, Block old browser versions and suspicious browsers is a WordPress ban plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 519 times in total. Requires WordPress 6.2+ and PHP 8.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: WP-Ban.
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Overview
There are many ways to block unwanted access to your website. This plugin checks which user agent is accessing your website. If it is outdated, unwanted, or suspicious, access is blocked.
Every time your web browser makes a request to a website, it sends a HTTP Header called the “User Agent”. The User Agent string contains information about your web browser name, operating system, device type and lots of other useful bits of information.
The plugin sends with an API the User Agent string of every browser that accesses your website for the first time to https://api.whatismybrowser.com/api/v2/user_agent_parse to obtain following information about the User Agent:
- Software Name & Version
- Operating System Name & Version
With this information, the plugin attempts to detect…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.2+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 8.1+ required |
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