Best hostname plugins for WordPress
The most popular hostname plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WP-Ban leads with 8K+ active installs, ahead of Dynamic Hostname (200+) and EDH Bad Bots (50+). All 4 plugins tagged “hostname” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 hostname plugins
- 1.
WP-BanThe most installed hostname plugin, with 8K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 27 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Dynamic Hostname200+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 3.
EDH Bad Bots50+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 4 months ago.
All 4 plugins tagged “hostname”
WP-Ban
Down in the last 7 days:5#2,374by Lester Chan3 months ago
Ban users by IP, IP range, host name, user agent and referrer URL from visiting your WordPress blog.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 3.7(27)
- Downloads
- 46/day
Dynamic Hostname
Down in the last 7 days:8#11,132by Takayuki Miyauchi11 years ago
Set hostname dynamically for the development.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
EDH Bad Bots
Up in the last 7 days:199#21,066by EncodeDotHost5 months ago
A smart WordPress plugin that automatically blocks malicious bots and crawlers that ignore your site's robots.txt file.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day