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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.

Installs aren’t everything: a recent release, a “Tested up to” that matches the current WordPress, and support threads that get resolved show a plugin is looked after. Open any plugin for its downloads, rank history and alternatives.

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Top 10 crawler plugins

  1. 1.
    Email Address Encoder

    The most installed crawler plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 160 reviews, updated 6 months ago.

  2. 2.
    Robots.txt Editor

    10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 8 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.

  3. 3.
    No-Bot Registration

    2K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 28 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.

  4. 4.
    Robots.txt rewrite

    1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.

  5. 5.
    Marquee image crawler

    600+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.

  6. 6.
    Block Archive.org via WordPress robots.txt

    400+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.

  7. 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. 8.
    Mass Ping Tool for SEO

    400+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 4 weeks ago.

  9. 9.
    Block eCommerce Assets via robots.txt

    90+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.

  10. 10.
    Block Chat GPT via robots.txt

    90+ 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”