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Block AI Crawlers · Version history

Block AI Crawlers changelog and version history

Latest version
1.6.3
Nov 1, 2026 (8 days ago)
Releases
30
since 2024
In the last year
8
about one every 48 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 8.2 or later

Releases each year

  • 202416 releases
  • 20257 releases
  • 20267 releases

20267 releases

  1. Block AI Crawlers 1.6.3Latest

    • Add: Sync blocked crawler list from ai.robots.txt (39 new crawlers)
    • Update: Require WordPress 7.0 or later
    • Fix: Declare minimum WordPress and PHP versions in the plugin header so WordPress enforces them
    • Fix: Cleanup Plugin Check messages

  2. Block AI Crawlers 1.6.2

    • Tested up to WordPress 7.1.

  3. Block AI Crawlers 1.6.1

    • Add: Sync blocked crawler list from ai.robots.txt (remove IbouBot)
    • Update: Replace screenshot

  4. Block AI Crawlers 1.6.0

    • New: Per-crawler toggles to opt individual bots out of robots.txt blocking
    • New: Optional toggle for the experimental noai, noimageai meta tag
    • Enhancement: Sticky header on the blocked crawlers settings table

  5. Block AI Crawlers 1.5.8

    • Enhancement: Generate blocked crawler list from ai.robots.txt robots.json at build time
    • Enhancement: Sync admin settings crawler table with the same generated list
    • New: Monitor upstream robots.json and open a GitHub issue when it changes

  6. Block AI Crawlers 1.5.7

    • New: Indicate WordPress v7.0 compatibility

  7. Block AI Crawlers 1.5.6

    • Fix: Update Claude blocking
    • New: Block MistralAI-user
    • New: Block LinerBot
    • New: Block Google-CloudVertexBot
    • New: Block VelenPublicWebCrawler

20257 releases

  1. Block AI Crawlers 1.5.5

    • Indicate WordPress v6.9 compatibility
    • Fix: Variable naming issues identified by Plugin Check

  2. Block AI Crawlers 1.5.4

    • Bump version number
    • New: Block Brightbot
    • New: Block DeepSeekBot
    • New: Block TerraCotta
    • Fix: Plugin check errors

  3. Block AI Crawlers 1.5.3

  4. Block AI Crawlers 1.5.2

    • New: Block Yak
    • New: Block Bigsur.ai
    • New: Block AddSearchBot
    • New: Block Google Agents
    • New: Block Thinkbot
    • New: Block Posideon Research Center
    • New: Block EchoboxBot
    • New: Block Bedrockbot
    • New: Block Panscient
    • New: Block SBIntuitionsBot
    • New: Block PhindBot
    • New: Block YandexAdditional

  5. Block AI Crawlers 1.5.1

    • New: Block aiHitBot
    • New: Block Cotoyogi
    • New: Block Factset
    • New: Block Firecrawl
    • New: Block TikTokSpider
    • New: Block Perplexity‑User
    • Update: Meta External Agent and Meta External Fetcher
    • Update: New Claude Bots
    • Update: Indicate WordPress v6.8 compatibility

  6. Block AI Crawlers 1.5.0

    • Enhancement: Adds ability for custom robots.txt rules

  7. Block AI Crawlers 1.4.3

    • New: Block SemrushBot
    • New: Block Crawlspace

202416 releases

  1. Block AI Crawlers 1.4.2

    • New: Block PanguBot

  2. Block AI Crawlers 1.4.1

    • New: Block Turnitinbot
    • New: Block Ai2Bot-Dolma
    • Enhancement: WordPress 6.7 compatibility

  3. Block AI Crawlers 1.4.0

    • New: Block Kangaroo Bot
    • New: Block sentibot
    • New: Block FriendlyCrawler
    • New: Block Scrapy
    • Fix: Broken link to settings page from Plugins page
    • Enhancement: Improve readme.md and readme.txt

  4. Block AI Crawlers 1.3.9

    • New: Block PetalBot
    • New: Block AI2Bot
    • New: Block Webz.io
    • New: Block OpenAI Search Bot (SearchGPT)
    • Enhancement: Alphabetize list of blocked crawlers
    • Enhancement: Indicate compatibility with WordPress v6.6
    • Enhancement: Add quick link to settings and nudge for rating on plugins page

  5. Block AI Crawlers 1.3.8

    • Maintenance: Auto-deply from Github fixed / bumped version number

  6. Block AI Crawlers 1.3.7

    • New: Meta AI
    • New: Block You.com Crawler
    • New: Block AmazonBot
    • New: Block Timpibot

  7. Block AI Crawlers 1.3.6

    • New: Block Perplexity
    • New: Block Apple AI
    • Update: FAQ based on submitted question

  8. Block AI Crawlers 1.3.5

    • New: Block additional Omgili bot
    • New: Block Imagesift
    • Fix: Fix settings page
    • Add: blueprint.json for plugin preview

  9. Block AI Crawlers 1.3.4

  10. Block AI Crawlers 1.3.3

    • Fix: Issue with fatal errors on activation

  11. Block AI Crawlers 1.3.1

    • New: Blocks Anthropic’s Claude
    • Fix: Missing external link icons
    • Update: Bump tested to v6.5.3

  12. Block AI Crawlers 1.3.0

    • New: Adds settings page showing blocked crawlers
    • Enhancement: Remove crawler description in robots.txt

  13. Block AI Crawlers 1.2.2

    • Update: Adds deploy from GitHub

  14. Block AI Crawlers 1.2.0

  15. Block AI Crawlers 1.1.0

  16. Block AI Crawlers 1.0.0

Questions about Block AI Crawlers’s releases

What is the latest version of Block AI Crawlers?

1.6.3, released on Nov 1, 2026 (1 week ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 8.2 or later.

How often is Block AI Crawlers updated?

8 releases in the last year, about one every 48 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from March 2024.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Block AI Crawlers’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.