Best crawler plugins for WordPress
The most popular crawler plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Email Address Encoder leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Robots.txt Editor (10K+) and No-Bot Registration (2K+). All 71 plugins tagged “crawler” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 crawler plugins
- 1.
Email Address EncoderThe most installed crawler plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 160 reviews, updated 6 months ago.
- 2.
Robots.txt Editor10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 8 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 3.
No-Bot Registration2K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 28 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.
Robots.txt rewrite1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 5.
Marquee image crawler600+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 6.
Block Archive.org via WordPress robots.txt400+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 7.Bisteinoff SEO Robots.txt
400+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 8.
Mass Ping Tool for SEO400+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 9.
Block eCommerce Assets via robots.txt90+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 10.
Block Chat GPT via robots.txt90+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
All 71 plugins tagged “crawler”

Email Address Encoder
Down in the last 7 days:2#406by Till Krüss7 months ago
A lightweight plugin that protects email addresses from email-harvesting robots, by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.2(160)
- Downloads
- 293/day

Robots.txt Editor
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,916by Processby5 years ago
Robots.txt for WordPress
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 113/day

No-Bot Registration
Down in the last 7 days:7#4,904by Arnan de Gans10 months ago
Prevent bots from creating accounts by blacklisting domains and usernames and present people with a human friendly security question.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.4(28)
- Downloads
- 20/day

Robots.txt rewrite
Down in the last 7 days:16#5,837by Eugen Bobrowski9 years ago
Provide the easy managment of your robots.txt from admin side. It propose you the advanced then standard robots.txt content too.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Marquee image crawler
Down in the last 7 days:41#8,320by gopiplus3 years ago
Marquee image crawler is a continuous scrolling image plugin. This plugin crawls the images left or right.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Block Archive.org via WordPress robots.txt
Up in the last 7 days:7#9,422by apasionados9 months ago
Blocks the archive.org bots through the WordPress virtual robots.txt file.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Bisteinoff SEO Robots.txt
Down in the last 7 days:55#9,661by Denis Bisteinov10 months ago
An easy-to-use plugin that generates and configures a proper robots.txt file, essential for effective search engine optimization (SEO).
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Mass Ping Tool for SEO
Down in the last 7 days:45#9,760by Pagup29 days ago
Mass ping tool for SEO plugin is one of the fastest ways to get indexed by Google. After pinging, Google bots, crawlers will visit your website and in …
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 3.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Block eCommerce Assets via robots.txt
Up in the last 7 days:2#16,789by apasionados3 years ago
Blocks some WooCommerce assets and Search pages that should not be indexed through robots.txt
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Block Chat GPT via robots.txt
Down in the last 7 days:250#16,893by apasionados3 years ago
Blocks the ChatGPT-User bot that is used by plugins in ChatGPT to crawl websites through the WordPress virtual robots.txt file
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
bodi0`s Bots visits counter
Down in the last 7 days:216#17,133by Budiony Damyanov2 years ago
Counts the visits from web spiders, crawlers and bots in your blog, with ability to get the blog rankings.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Warmer
Up in the last 7 days:721#17,197by Atakan Oz5 months ago
Warm your WordPress cache with scheduled crawling, cache preloading, URL source control, logs, diagnostics, and WP-CLI.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.3(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Promium AI GEO
Up in the last 7 days:15,891#17,867by PROMIUM1 month ago
Write a dedicated version of any post or page for AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, and choose which bots may read it.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 158/day
Findkit
Down in the last 7 days:17#18,204by Findkit Team2 months ago
Powerful cloud based search engine for your website. Search as you type, real-time index updates, and embeddable UI. Free for small websites.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

HS3Dev AI Content Index for llms.txt
#19,813by mirzahadi11 days ago
Generate llms.txt and llms-full.txt with full control over content, SEO integration, multilingual support, and AI crawler analytics.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 23/day

Crawl Hunt
#21,651by themeshopy6 days ago
AI-powered SEO audits and fixes for WordPress. Find SEO issues, fix them faster, and optimize your site for search engines and AI search.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Berq Markdown
#25,475by BerqWP4 months ago
Increase your AI visibility. Berq Markdown serves every page as a clean Markdown file so AI assistants and LLM crawlers can read, cite, and recommend …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Azayem Bots Tracker
Down in the last 7 days:12#26,713by botstracker10 months ago
A custom plugin to log search engine bot visits and analyze their crawl budget directly inside WordPress (no external services required).
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Block Feed and Comments via robots.txt
Down in the last 7 days:90#26,887by apasionados3 years ago
Blocks some Feed and Comment resources in order to avoid spam bots
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Block Common Crawl via robots.txt
#27,849by apasionados3 years ago
Blocks the Common Crawl bot (CCBot) that gathers data that is used to train AI algorithms like ChatGPT through the WordPress virtual robots.txt file
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Boring Cache Warmup Lite
Up in the last 7 days:194#29,163by chriskubisch2 months ago
A lightweight, privacy-friendly WordPress cache warmup tool. No external services, no drama.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Trackbase Analytics
#31,616by trackbase25 days ago
Official Trackbase Analytics plugin for WordPress. Add your tracking ID and enable server-side crawler analytics in minutes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

GlobeSign Content Markdown Mirror
#32,259by globesign4 months ago
Makes your WordPress site AI-friendly: generates llms.txt and clean, structured Markdown mirrors of every page and post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

GoBookMart Robots Editor
Up in the last 7 days:71#32,815by Gobookmart11 months ago
A lightweight plugin to edit or create robots.txt directly from your WordPress dashboard. Developed by GoBookMart.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Rankal LLMs.txt
#33,967by rankalseo2 months ago
Generate and serve a dynamic, cached /llms.txt AI context index. An add-on that works in partnership with Rankal SEO Optimizer.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Trimardeau SEO Log
Up in the last 7 days:5,061#38,525by Nicolas TRIMARDEAU2 months ago
SEO & GEO bot analytics: see Googlebot, ChatGPT, Claude and every AI crawler at work on each post, page and term — full crawl history included.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
JaspreetChahal’s wordpress bot detector lite
Up in the last 7 days:5,745#40,628by Jaspreet Chahal11 years ago
This plugin detects a few bots (e.g. Google, Google ads, Alta vista etc) and sends an email based on interval set by you. you can choose what format e …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
GoVISIBLE AI Bot Tracker
#45,495by GoVISIBLE1 month ago
Track visits from AI bots like ChatGPT, GPTBot, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 12/day
Robots.txt Extender
Up in the last 7 days:1,959#46,350by bettoadami6 years ago
Dynamic robots.txt for Multisite! Change parameters, or don't, for each site of your network without losing the defaults from WordPress Includes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Page Modified
Down in the last 7 days:8,561#47,288by Chris Klosowski9 years ago
Display the results of your Page Modified crawls right within your WordPress Admin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

SEObot Monitor for Googlebot, Bingbot and search engine spiders
Down in the last 7 days:1,928#48,469by Santiago Alonso5 years ago
With SEObot Monitor for Googlebot you will be able to dump the server logs to Google Analytics, easily and automatically. This will allow you to dete …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Okibako AI
Up in the last 7 days:5,665#50,110by hokkaidoweb14 days ago
Records which AI crawlers actually fetch your pages, checks what they can read, and serves llms.txt — no database tables, no IPs stored.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Spuncin
Down in the last 7 days:57#50,404by spuncin2 months ago
Blocks AI crawlers that collect your content to train models. Search engines and link previews are never touched.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Aiso AI Crawler Analytics
Down in the last 7 days:254#50,430by bentannenbaum4 months ago
See which AI assistants — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google and more — crawl your site, broken down by assistant, crawler, purpose and page.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
BotGate
Up in the last 7 days:10,336#50,803by Anil12 days ago
Choose which AI bots can read your content, and publish an llms.txt file for AI search tools.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

LLMReader AI Bots
#53,006by LLMReader11 days ago
See which pages AI crawlers read and how many people arrive from AI chat apps. Reports to your LLMReader account.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

SeoNova Bot Radar
#53,106by edison721 day ago
Bot traffic radar: who visits your site, what they are after, and what they cost you in money.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 74/day

Bottoll
Up in the last 7 days:17,723#53,135by bottoll1 month ago
Detect AI crawlers, apply access policies, and understand automated access to your WordPress content.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Zicy AI Access Monitor
#53,141by zicygp5 months ago
Monitor known AI crawlers and AI assistant fetches, with daily rollups, CSV exports, weekly summaries, and page briefs.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

OpenBotAuth
Up in the last 7 days:8,881#53,695by hammadtq9 months ago
Verify AI crawlers with HTTP Signatures and enforce allow/deny/teaser policies; also serves llms.txt and AI-ready feeds.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Imedes AI Bot Verify
Up in the last 7 days:9,129#54,690by imedes2 months ago
Verify supported AI bot identities, allow legitimate agents, and block spoofed claims.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

AI Kansoku Lab Tracker
Down in the last 7 days:3,779#55,421by AI Kansoku Lab5 days ago
Track AI crawler visits such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot server-side and visualize them in WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

WEO LLMS & AI Crawler Guide
Up in the last 7 days:9,017#57,666by Md Atiar Rahman Ovi10 months ago
The professional architect for your llms.txt file. Control how AI agents (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) consume your website content with a structured, …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Cleotic AI Traffic
Up in the last 7 days:7,786#58,393by cleotic4 months ago
See AI crawler visits and AI assistant referrals on your site, with optional signed sync to Cleotic.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Virtual LLMS.TXT Generator
Up in the last 7 days:12,091#58,809by Alex Oreshkin1 month ago
Publish a safe, configurable llms.txt map from public WordPress content, with an opt-in bounded full-text export.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Wizehawk Store Discovery Audit
Up in the last 7 days:9,587#60,490by Wizehawk1 month ago
Local-first WooCommerce readiness checks for AI search discovery, crawler access, and structured product information.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Limpark Bot Monitor
Down in the last 7 days:8,433#62,456by limpark2 months ago
Monitor search engine bots visiting your WordPress website in real time.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BotObservatory
Down in the last 7 days:15,418#65,205by traveliaq2 months ago
Observe human and machine traffic, identify suspicious automation, and optionally quarantine aggressive scrapers.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Valvai
#65,379by valvai1 year ago
Block, log and monetise AI crawlers directly from your WordPress dashboard.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Whizz MD
Up in the last 7 days:620#65,437by Whizz People4 months ago
Serve every WordPress post and page as a clean .md file with full SEO frontmatter — discoverable by AI crawlers and search engines on the fly.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day