Best robots plugins for WordPress
The most popular robots plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. XML Sitemap & Google News leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of WP Robots Txt (40K+) and Virtual Robots.txt (40K+). All 65 plugins tagged “robots” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 robots plugins
- 1.
XML Sitemap & Google NewsThe most installed robots plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 85 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 2.
WP Robots Txt40K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 21 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Virtual Robots.txt40K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 10 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Head Meta Data10K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 19 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
Robots.txt Editor10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 8 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 6.
Companion Sitemap Generator6K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 55 reviews, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 7.HTTP 410 (Gone) responses
4K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 21 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 8.noindex SEO
3K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.Noindex Pages
2K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 6 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 10.
mypace Custom Meta Robots2K+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
All 65 plugins tagged “robots”

XML Sitemap & Google News
Down in the last 7 days:1#324by Rolf Allard van Hagen5 months ago
Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.4(85)
- Downloads
- 580/day

WP Robots Txt
Up in the last 7 days:4#854by George Pattichis2 months ago
WP Robots Txt Allows you to edit the content of your robots.txt file.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 5.0(21)
- Downloads
- 241/day

Virtual Robots.txt
Down in the last 7 days:2#873by Marios Alexandrou2 months ago
Virtual Robots.txt automatically creates a robots.txt file for your site. Your robots.txt file can be easily edited from the plugin settings page.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.3(10)
- Downloads
- 92/day

Head Meta Data
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,705by Jeff Starr3 months ago
Adds a custom set of <meta> tags to the <head> section of all posts & pages.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(19)
- Downloads
- 69/day

Robots.txt Editor
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,915by Processby5 years ago
Robots.txt for WordPress
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 129/day

Companion Sitemap Generator
Up in the last 7 days:2#2,721by Papin Schipper6 months ago
Create clean, complete, and up-to-date sitemaps for your WordPress website automatically.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.7(55)
- Downloads
- 37/day
HTTP 410 (Gone) responses
Down in the last 7 days:2#3,271by Matt Calvert3 months ago
Sends HTTP 410 (Gone) responses for deleted content, telling search engines the page is permanently removed.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.6(21)
- Downloads
- 34/day
noindex SEO
Up in the last 7 days:1#3,963by ROBOTSTXT.es2 months ago
Control search engine indexing with robots directives using HTML meta tags or HTTP headers.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 24/day
Noindex Pages
Down in the last 7 days:5#4,755by radgh10 years ago
Ask search engines not to index individual pages by checking an option in the publish post box.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.5(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

mypace Custom Meta Robots
Down in the last 7 days:5#4,973by けい (Kei Nomura)5 years ago
Description: This plugin allows you to edit the meta robots tag at every singular post(posts, pages, custom post types). This is a very simple plugin.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Multipart robots.txt editor
Down in the last 7 days:5#5,179by Viktor Szépe8 years ago
Customize your site's robots.txt and include remote content to it
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.3(3)
- Downloads
- 14/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

Magic robots.txt
Up in the last 7 days:14#6,343by ABCdatos2 months ago
This plugin automatically creates a robots.txt analyzing your site to improve your Google ranking and site performance.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 14/day

Cryptex
Down in the last 7 days:19#7,289by Andi Dittrich7 months ago
Cryptex transforms plain-text E-Mail-Addresses into Images - automatically - No scrapers. No harvesters. No spambots. That's our goal!
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Robots.txt Quick Editor
Up in the last 7 days:51#7,374by davide.airaghi3 years ago
Plugin to edit robots.txt file
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Admin Robots.txt Editor
Down in the last 7 days:1#7,578by Karan Makani2 months ago
Easily create, edit, and manage your site's robots.txt file directly from the WordPress admin panel.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Noindex Attachment Pages
Up in the last 7 days:9#8,072by jruizcantero13 years ago
Add META ROBOTS NOINDEX to Attachment Pages in WordPress for better SEO
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Search engines blocked warning
Down in the last 7 days:16#9,097by apasionados9 months ago
Shows a warning in the WordPress administration header when the option "Search Engine Visibility: Discourage search engines from indexing this si …
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Block Archive.org via WordPress robots.txt
Up in the last 7 days:50#9,424by apasionados9 months ago
Blocks the archive.org bots through the WordPress virtual robots.txt file.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 7/day

Robots & Sitemap
Up in the last 7 days:20#9,573by Vo3da team5 years ago
Plugin allows easily generate sitemap.xml filе, create and edit robots.txt for your single site or multisite
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bisteinoff SEO Robots.txt
Down in the last 7 days:49#9,668by 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
- 6/day

Disable WP Robots
Down in the last 7 days:34#11,396by Jeff Starr4 days ago
Disables the robots meta tag added by WordPress.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Crawler Record
Up in the last 7 days:104#16,082by dizzysoft1 month ago
Crawler Record tells you the last time each of the most common search/LLM chatbots visited (Google, ChatGPT, etc) and the pages at which they looked.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 23/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

Block eCommerce Assets via robots.txt
#16,818by apasionados3 years ago
Blocks some WooCommerce assets and Search pages that should not be indexed through robots.txt
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day

Block Chat GPT via robots.txt
Down in the last 7 days:162#16,865by 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
- 8/day

410 Delete Pages SEO
Up in the last 7 days:35#17,002by edsteep6 years ago
Force 410 HTTP Status on listed pages, or just articles/pages that no longer exist.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Noindex by Path
Up in the last 7 days:21#19,757by Marcin Kijak9 years ago
Ask search engines not to index individual pages by a relative path - which means you can set every url no matter it is a page, category listing or an …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Unblock CSS & JS for Googlebot
Down in the last 7 days:442#21,227by Miina Sikk10 years ago
Modifies robots.txt to allow Googlebot access JS and CSS files.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

TDMRep
Down in the last 7 days:92#21,282by Pierre Viéville2 years ago
TDM Reservation Protocol. Control how bots and artificial intelligences like ChatGPT, GoogleBot and Bard access your content.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/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

Block Feed and Comments via robots.txt
Down in the last 7 days:528#27,078by apasionados3 years ago
Blocks some Feed and Comment resources in order to avoid spam bots
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

Block Common Crawl via robots.txt
Down in the last 7 days:197#27,850by 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
- 3/day
WP Robots Log
#29,598by Arefly12 years ago
Log the Search Engine Robots Visits of your Webite. 取得搜索引擎的蜘蛛訪問網站的記錄
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- 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
U&AI SEO Bridge
Up in the last 7 days:90#31,309by ybriki2 months ago
Writes SEO title, meta description, canonical, robots and JSON-LD into fields WordPress themes actually render, via a small REST namespace.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Robots “noindex,follow” meta tag
Down in the last 7 days:1,361#32,867by rodhomor8 years ago
Add robots "noindex,follow" meta tags to archives, tag pages and category pages in order to preserve your SEO juju.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

ChatBot Blocker by CellarWeb
Down in the last 7 days:440#33,282by Rick Hellewell2 years ago
ChatBot Blocker by CellarWeb adds commands to the WordPress virtual robots.txt file to block various chatbots from using your site content.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
RRZE-Robots-Txt
#40,259by rvdforst13 years ago
Ermöglich die Bearbeitung des robots.txt Inhalts um weitere Direktiven hinzuzufügen. Multisite kompatibel.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Thin Content Manager
Down in the last 7 days:4,170#45,108by msfreed12 years ago
See the body word count to identify pages with thin content, then select pages to insert robots noindex,nofollow tags into.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/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

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
- 1/day

AI Readiness Advisor
Up in the last 7 days:1,943#55,112by BMoore1 year ago
Audit AI bot access: logs, verification table, robots.txt viewer, quick test, server snippets, and a public REST ping endpoint.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Engineo
Up in the last 7 days:16,512#56,393by justnaveenthings1 year ago
All-engine optimization plugin (SEO + GEO + AEO) with Elementor compatibility. Optimize for search engines, local search, and AI engines.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ReadyStack Robots Txt AI Crawler Audit
Up in the last 7 days:252#57,647by readystack26 days ago
Checks robots.txt line by line and says what each AI crawler token actually controls - training, AI-search citation, or user fetch - and which lines.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

DY LLMs.txt Tool
Up in the last 7 days:1,382#61,747by dyaylaci3 months ago
Create and manage an llms.txt file for AI crawlers to improve AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) and provide an authoritative AI index for your site.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
MetaWise SEO
#63,284by Iftakharul Islam4 days ago
Adds meta descriptions, Open Graph and Twitter card tags, per-post robots controls, and an XML sitemap.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 88/day

SEARCHEN Discover Readiness
#63,885by searchennetworks1 month ago
A lightweight Google Discover readiness helper for WordPress publishers.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
SanityAI Visibility Toolkit
Down in the last 7 days:9,371#64,009by wasimuc3 months ago
See your AI traffic, control AI crawlers, get cited by AI. llms.txt generation, AI bot control, and ChatGPT/Perplexity/Claude referral tracking.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Mwangip AI Crawler and Referral Analytics
#64,085by Ceaser mwangi7 days ago
See which AI crawlers visit your site, which pages they request, and how much human traffic AI platforms send. Free, private, no external services.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 34/day