Best robots.txt plugins for WordPress
The most popular robots.txt plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WP Robots Txt leads with 40K+ active installs, ahead of Virtual Robots.txt (40K+) and Robots.txt Editor (10K+). All 103 plugins tagged “robots.txt” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 robots.txt plugins
- 1.
WP Robots TxtThe most installed robots.txt plugin, with 40K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 21 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Virtual Robots.txt40K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 10 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Robots.txt Editor10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 8 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 4.
Better Robots.txt5K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 102 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 5.
Block AI Crawlers2K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 8 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 6.
Multipart robots.txt editor1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 7.
Robots.txt rewrite1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 8.
Magic robots.txt1K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.Known Agents
1K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 6 reviews, updated 5 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 10.
AI Content Signals800+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
All 103 plugins tagged “robots.txt”

WP Robots Txt
Up in the last 7 days:2#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:3#874by 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

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
- 129/day

Better Robots.txt
Down in the last 7 days:5#3,048by Pagup12 days ago
Replace the default WordPress robots.txt workflow with a smarter, structured version you can preview before publishing, with Free, Pro, and Premium ed …
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.5(102)
- Downloads
- 102/day

Block AI Crawlers
Up in the last 7 days:68#4,872by lastsplash (a11n)8 days ago
Adds robots.txt rules blocking AI crawlers and AI bots.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.4(8)
- Downloads
- 67/day

Multipart robots.txt editor
Down in the last 7 days:6#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
- 13/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
- 12/day

Magic robots.txt
Down in the last 7 days:3#6,350by 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
Known Agents
Up in the last 7 days:27#6,623by Known Agents5 months ago
Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(6)
- Downloads
- 34/day

AI Content Signals
Up in the last 7 days:53#7,344by 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

Robots.txt Quick Editor
Up in the last 7 days:76#7,372by davide.airaghi3 years ago
Plugin to edit robots.txt file
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Admin Robots.txt Editor
Up in the last 7 days:8#7,596by 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

Search engines blocked warning
Down in the last 7 days:27#9,110by 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

AI Scrape Protect
Up in the last 7 days:175#9,222by Daan Verbaan1 month ago
Protect your website from AI scraping by adding opt-out instructions to your robots.txt file and including meta tags in the HTML ``.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 22/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
- 7/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
iRobots.txt SEO
Up in the last 7 days:41#11,781irobotstxt-seo16 years ago
iRobots.txt SEO is a SEO optimized, secure and customizable robots.txt virtual file creator.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Robots Meta Whiz
Up in the last 7 days:47#16,405by 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:51#16,530by Artem Pilipets11 years ago
The easiest way to manage meta robots tag.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/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
- 4/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
- 8/day
Forge AI Bot Log
Up in the last 7 days:115#17,014by forgecreative20 days ago
Detect, verify and block AI crawlers, bots and scrapers. Vendor IP lists and reverse-DNS checks flag spoofed user agents, not trust them.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Check Search Engine Visibility on Migration
Down in the last 7 days:28#18,910by Rhys Wynne11 months ago
Checks if a site it's inivisible to search engines after a migration. If so, then the plugin warns you to review this setting.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Unblock CSS & JS for Googlebot
Down in the last 7 days:192#20,877by Miina Sikk10 years ago
Modifies robots.txt to allow Googlebot access JS and CSS files.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

CeeWP Robots.txt Manager
Down in the last 7 days:517#22,058by 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
Copyright AI Content Licensing
Up in the last 7 days:522#23,403by Tyler Martin9 months ago
AI content licensing for WordPress. Block AI crawlers or license your content and get paid. Works with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
AI Deny
#23,511by Code For Broke1 month ago
Block 30+ AI crawlers in your robots.txt, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot and CCBot, and choose exactly which bots get in.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
SEO & AI Readiness Check
#24,604by meinseocoach9 days ago
See what search engines and AI crawlers find on your site: titles, meta, H1, schema, sitemap, GPTBot access and llms.txt. No account needed.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Mephivio Robots LLMs
Up in the last 7 days:480#24,638by Mephivio28 days ago
Generates llms.txt, llms-full.txt, JSON-LD and robots.txt discovery files for AI agents and search crawlers, without promising ranking gains.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 22/day

IntentDeep Virtual Files
Down in the last 7 days:152#25,148by IntentDeep8 months ago
Create robots.txt, ads.txt, security.txt, llms.txt & JSON files with AI-ready content generation (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) at any path. No FTP needed.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day

AI Blackout
Up in the last 7 days:1,001#26,704by LazyCodeLab1 month ago
Stop AI companies scraping your posts to train their chatbots. Block AI crawlers, state your terms, and switch off the AI inside WordPress.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/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
- 2/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
- 2/day

SEO Auditor Tools
#30,598by Fernando Fas1 month ago
Scan your WordPress site for SEO issues and get actionable fixes. Includes AI Helper, sitemap, robots.txt, LLMS.txt, Open Graph, cookie consent, analy …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Hack The SEO
#30,600by Hack The SEO4 days ago
Connect Claude to your site. See which AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) read your pages. Free, runs next to your SEO plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 34/day

HumanGate
#31,452by DarkAI10 months ago
Protect your content from AI training crawlers and scraping bots. Add refusal signals, enforce blocks, and deter large-scale extraction.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

ProAI TXT Manager for LLMS and Robots
Down in the last 7 days:1,497#32,261by ProAI1 year ago
Automatically generates and manages llms.txt and robots.txt files for your WordPress site with AI-optimized content.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
LJPL Armored robots.txt
#32,272by Lukasz Jasinski13 years ago
Add some directives to your robots.txt file to keep your site safer
- 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

ChatBot Blocker by CellarWeb
Down in the last 7 days:445#33,288by 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
Sitemapster
Up in the last 7 days:24,931#41,910by Matt Biscay27 days ago
Help search engines discover your content with fast XML and image sitemaps, smart caching, and simple controls. WooCommerce support in Pro.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Thin Content Manager
#44,983by 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

LLMs.txt Generator & AI Crawler Control
Up in the last 7 days:616#46,022by Four47 Labs10 days ago
Generate llms.txt, manage robots.txt, control AI crawlers and audit your WordPress site's technical readiness for GEO and AI visibility.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/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
Seenby AI Access Check
#48,617by citedby10 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

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
- 11/day
Markaevi AI Crawler Control
Up in the last 7 days:11,566#50,394by yagmuryurtsever3 months ago
Establish full control over LLM crawlers and optimize your website framework for conversational AI engines.
- 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

IndexMesh
Up in the last 7 days:10,944#50,823by Xavier Emerson19 days ago
Control AI crawlers, publish llms.txt, coordinate schema ownership, and verify live output. Free, local, and SEO-plugin compatible.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

AI Crawler Control by Citlyze
#50,994by citlyze1 day ago
Control GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot in robots.txt, get alerts when AI search gets blocked, audit posts for AI answers, and manage llms.txt.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day