Best crawlers plugins for WordPress
The most popular crawlers plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Block AI Crawlers leads with 2K+ active installs, ahead of Robots.txt rewrite (1K+) and AI Content Signals (800+). All 39 plugins tagged “crawlers” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 crawlers plugins
- 1.
Block AI CrawlersThe most installed crawlers plugin, with 2K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 8 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
Robots.txt rewrite1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 3.
AI Content Signals800+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
CodingBunny LLMs.txt Generator100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.Robots Meta Whiz
100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 6.MetaRobots by SEO-Sign
100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 7.
Serve Markdown80+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 8.
ParseLess60+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 9.
Log-Hero.com Plugin40+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 6 days ago.
- 10.
CeeWP Robots.txt Manager40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
All 39 plugins tagged “crawlers”

Block AI Crawlers
Up in the last 7 days:66#4,875by lastsplash (a11n)7 days ago
Adds robots.txt rules blocking AI crawlers and AI bots.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.4(8)
- Downloads
- 67/day

Robots.txt rewrite
Down in the last 7 days:13#5,833by 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
- 12/day

AI Content Signals
Up in the last 7 days:33#7,348by Fernando Tellado2 months ago
Control how AI uses your content — search, AI answers or training — via robots.txt Content Signals, HTTP headers, meta tags and TDMRep.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 33/day

CodingBunny LLMs.txt Generator
Down in the last 7 days:117#14,811by CodingBunny1 month ago
Advanced llms.txt generator with AI metadata, Schema.org types, canonical URLs, and differentiated licenses for optimal LLM indexing.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Robots Meta Whiz
Up in the last 7 days:41#16,411by Marat Nepomnyashy9 years ago
Easy way to discourage search engines from indexing only specific pages / posts with custom meta tags.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MetaRobots by SEO-Sign
Up in the last 7 days:45#16,501by Artem Pilipets11 years ago
The easiest way to manage meta robots tag.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Serve Markdown
Up in the last 7 days:93#17,796by Azey7 months ago
Serve Markdown versions of your posts and pages to AI agents and crawlers. Content negotiation, .md URLs, auto-discovery, and crawler logging.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

ParseLess
Down in the last 7 days:189#19,387by phalkmin26 days ago
Serve AI the good version of your content, see which bots really read it, and cap what they cost you. Markdown for crawlers and agents — 95%+ less ban …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Log-Hero.com Plugin
Up in the last 7 days:596#21,589by Log Hero6 days ago
See which search engines, AI crawlers and other bots visit your site, and what they find. The official plugin for log-hero.com.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day

CeeWP Robots.txt Manager
Down in the last 7 days:352#21,899by CeeWP1 year ago
Easily manage your WordPress site's virtual robots.txt file with custom rules. No physical file needed!
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Temso AI
#25,957by Temso AI2 months ago
Stream front-end request logs from your WordPress origin to Temso so AI-crawler and bot traffic shows up in your dashboard.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Seo Crawlytics Data Export & Delete
#29,675by apasionados3 years ago
Exports all entries of Seo Crawlytics and gives you the option to delete the entries that are older than 1 month.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MSG LLMs TXT Manager
Down in the last 7 days:376#31,517by Hugo1 month ago
Serve your content as clean Markdown to AI agents, publish llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and see which agents actually fetch what.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
LJPL Armored robots.txt
Down in the last 7 days:354#31,851by Lukasz Jasinski13 years ago
Add some directives to your robots.txt file to keep your site safer
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

OtterlyAI Agent Analytics
Up in the last 7 days:11,372#35,217by OtterlyAI1 month ago
Reports every AI crawler and bot request on your site to OtterlyAI Agent Analytics. Runs server-side, in the background.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
PufferSights
Down in the last 7 days:3,710#45,014by senols1 month ago
Monitor 135+ known AI crawlers and agents with local analytics, AI referrals, llms.txt, and opt-in robots.txt policy tools.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 10/day

Rawi MD
Down in the last 7 days:1,292#48,306by Ahmed Abdelhamed2 months ago
Give ChatGPT, Claude and other AI crawlers a clean Markdown copy of your posts, pages and products. Nothing changes for your visitors.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Misha Manko AI Bot Access Checker
#50,211by mishamanko1 month ago
See which AI bots can reach your site - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI and more - and why the others are blocked.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Trakkr Crawler Tracking
Up in the last 7 days:20,419#51,017by trakkr2 days ago
Record requests from known AI crawlers and view them in Trakkr. Optional AI Pages, off by default, can serve those crawlers through Trakkr.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Presswell Content Extractor
#53,517by Presswell5 days ago
Serve AI-agent-friendly Markdown and an llms.txt index from your WordPress content.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 65/day

PropertyRightsWeb™
Up in the last 7 days:17,729#55,415by personaldigitalspaces19 days ago
License your WordPress content to AI companies: set your terms, publish them in a machine-readable standard, and get paid when your work is used.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

AI Mention Visibility
Up in the last 7 days:6,535#56,618by aimention2 months ago
See which AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Perplexity and more) reach your site, and the visitors AI sends you. Verified, and free.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Botkibble
#57,206by gregrandall8 months ago
Serves every published post and page as Markdown for AI agents and crawlers. No configuration, no API keys. Activate and it works.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Seenby AI Access Check
Up in the last 7 days:4,912#58,265by citedby9 days ago
One button in wp-admin shows whether AI-search crawlers can read your site: robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap and a free page check.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Referenced
#59,184by Referenced AI4 days ago
See which AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and more) read which pages of your site. No visitor data, no front-end changes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 68/day

Vinvin AI Visibility Tools
#59,928by vinvin274 days ago
See what AI assistants can read on your site, and decide which AI crawlers may use it: a readiness checklist and purpose-based crawler controls.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 93/day

StudioMeyer Agent Readiness
#61,392by studiomeyerio2 months ago
Check what AI agents really get from your site, then publish the machine-readable files it is missing. Local only, no account, no cloud.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SenseGap
#62,397by sensegap3 days ago
See which AI bots read your site: what they read, how often, and which ones are real.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 81/day

PinMeOut
Up in the last 7 days:7,945#62,612by tothiq1 month ago
Control which AI crawlers may read your site, see which ones actually do, and make your pages worth citing. Works alongside your SEO plugin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

AI Rights Protection by SimpleFeed
Up in the last 7 days:6,985#65,010by Alex Khomichenko1 year ago
Protect your rights by reviewing and blocking AI bots from using your content without compensation.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Posterna
#65,584by posterna4 days ago
See which AI agents and crawlers visit your site and whether they are who they say they are. Monitor only: it labels and counts, never blocks.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 76/day
Clownsteins Rogue Agent Defender
#67,667by Albert1 month ago
Protects the site from external AI attacks by blocking inference providers and selected crawlers.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Block old browser versions and suspicious browsers
Down in the last 7 days:1,891#67,703by hupe1322 days ago
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.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

CLEO by RegenAI
#68,923by CLEO by RegenAI5 days ago
See which AI systems read your pages. Requires a free or paid Cleo account.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 63/day
Yozigo GEO
#70,713by yozigo1 month ago
Tracks visits and sends them to your Yozigo GEO dashboard for bot/AI-crawler and traffic-share analytics.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Frenemy
Down in the last 7 days:21,168#72,321by frenemydev5 days ago
See every bot that reaches WordPress — search crawlers, AI agents, scrapers, impostors — classified and identity-verified, in one dashboard.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

getReport
#73,278by mariosmode13 days ago
See which AI crawlers visit (verified), which AI assistants send you visitors, and how quotable every post is. Plus one-click fixes with Undo. Free.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Supertab Connect
Down in the last 7 days:15,416#73,714by getsupertab4 days ago
Connect your WordPress site to the Supertab Connect platform for RSL license serving and enabling crawler authentication protocol.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Arbling Beacon
#73,847by arbling17 days ago
See which AI assistants send visitors to your site, and which AI crawlers read it, in your Arbling dashboard.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day