Best AI-crawler plugins for WordPress
The most popular AI-crawler plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Bot Traffic Shield leads with 900+ active installs, ahead of EdgeShaping Lite (50+) and Kennedy Site Scout (30+). All 25 plugins tagged “ai-crawler” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 AI-crawler plugins
- 1.
Bot Traffic ShieldThe most installed AI-crawler plugin, with 900+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 2.
EdgeShaping Lite50+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.
Kennedy Site Scout30+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 5 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.
Bravo Crawl Hunter20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.
AEOmatic20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 4 days ago.
- 6.
Site Answers20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
- 7.WP Rankify
10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 8.Verify AI Agents & Block Fake AI Bots
Fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 months ago.
- 9.KI-Console Connect
Fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.Simple AI Blocker
Fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
All 25 plugins tagged “ai-crawler”

Bot Traffic Shield
Up in the last 7 days:119#7,096by Delower Hossain14 days ago
A powerful and user-friendly plugin to block AI crawlers and malicious data scraper bots, protecting your content and server resources.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 46/day

EdgeShaping Lite
Up in the last 7 days:310#20,979by mareinterno1 month ago
See which pages AI bots like GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot are reading, and compare them with your human traffic. Nothing is blocked.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Kennedy Site Scout
Down in the last 7 days:108#24,920by Anthony Acosta5 months ago
Prepare your WordPress site for AI. Auto-generates E-E-A-T-rich llms.txt, llms-full.txt, and llms-sitemap.xml. Logs all AI crawler visits site-wide.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Bravo Crawl Hunter
#26,384by Jumedeen khan1 month ago
The best AI Crawl Blocker for WordPress. Block AI crawlers, AI scrapers, bad bots, spam bots, and other unwanted bots.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

AEOmatic
Down in the last 7 days:1,977#27,898by Tushar Makwana4 days ago
Can ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI read your site? Check AI crawler access, add llms.txt and schema, fix AEO gaps. Free, no API key.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Site Answers
#28,703by Nolan T.8 days ago
A read-only MCP server for AI agents, plus llms.txt, Markdown pages and a log of which AI crawlers read your site. No account, no external service.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Rankify
Down in the last 7 days:73#31,445by muenchmedia14 days ago
AI Readiness Score, Schema.org, E-E-A-T, AI topic analysis & the best internal linking, ever. See how AI search rates your content.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Verify AI Agents & Block Fake AI Bots
#51,205by kamenzy3 months ago
Verify AI agents like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity are genuine, and block fake AI bots at your login, search, forms, and REST API.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
KI-Console Connect
Up in the last 7 days:14,080#53,716by alpasana2 months ago
Track AI crawler visits, connect KI-Console entitlements and enable runtime-only AI visibility optimizations.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple AI Blocker
Up in the last 7 days:7,359#56,034by maxhaesslein2 years ago
Block AI Crawlers directly via their IP addresses or user-agents.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BotSieve
Up in the last 7 days:12,510#57,498by custonis5 months ago
Detect ChatGPT, Claude, Meta AI and other AI crawlers visiting your WordPress website.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

AKSA AI Monitor
#60,926by mikiaksa3 months ago
Measure detected AI crawler activity, see which content is accessed, identify AI referral visits, and manage bot access locally.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Unsourced
Up in the last 7 days:3,394#62,173by Rene R9 days ago
See which AI assistants cite your site, who is really crawling it, and whether your fixes work, backed by verified evidence, not vanity scores.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

CrawlGator AI Lab by DigitalME
#63,051by DigitalME4 months ago
Track how AI systems see your WordPress site. Monitor AI crawler visits, measure your AI visibility score, and improve your AI search presence.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

Indesign AI for AEO & GEO Optimization
#64,438by InDesign Media3 months ago
Get your WordPress site cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot. llms.txt, AI crawler control, schema, content scoring, citation tracking.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

BotSieve
Down in the last 7 days:9,873#64,651by custonis5 months ago
Detect bots, AI crawlers and suspicious traffic on your WordPress site. Monitor traffic quality in real time with a modern lightweight dashboard.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
All-IN Crawler & AI Agent Manager
#67,256by Eli Shvarzman1 day ago
Allow, rate-limit or block bots, AI crawlers and scrapers, and stay visible to search engines and AI assistants.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 69/day

CrawlWatch
Down in the last 7 days:15,219#68,347by Monowar Hossain (devmonowar)9 days ago
Track AI bot traffic on WordPress – see GPTBot, ClaudeBot & 40+ bots, block unwanted crawlers, generate llms.txt. Free.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

AumCrawl
Down in the last 7 days:13,381#68,955by AumCreate28 days ago
See which AI crawlers read your site — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and more — verify they are who they claim, and block the ones you choose.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Turksem GEO SEO
Down in the last 7 days:2,764#70,804by Turk SEM1 month ago
Track the AI bots crawling your site: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and more. Audit your SEO, control AI crawler access, and prove what changed.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Hafen Core
Up in the last 7 days:2,423#70,893by hafenstudios27 days ago
The companion plugin for the Hafen theme. JSON-LD schema, answer blocks, AI crawler policy, local AI traffic stats, Markdown delivery and llms.txt.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PressHangar AI Citations
#71,754by presshangar1 month ago
Generate llms.txt and control AI crawlers (GPTBot, ChatGPT) via robots.txt and IndexNow — so your content is found and cited by AI search.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Grubbomatic Crawl Readiness
Down in the last 7 days:3,158#72,699by grubbomatic10 days ago
Check whether AI crawlers can read your site, then fix what they need in one click: llms.txt, AI crawler rules, meta and Open Graph tags, JSON-LD.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

RankyFy AI SEO
Down in the last 7 days:1,178#74,158by rankyfy20 days ago
See which AI crawlers read your WordPress site, track visits from ChatGPT and Perplexity, publish llms.txt, and fix what keeps you out of AI search.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Wille GEO
Down in the last 7 days:10,997#74,309by lcswll1 month ago
See which AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity …) reads which page for which term – and optimize your site for AI search. Free, no subscription.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day