Best spiders plugins for WordPress
The most popular spiders plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Robots Meta Whiz leads with 100+ active installs, ahead of Simple Halloween Decoration For Your Page (80+) and LJPL Armored robots.txt (10+). All 6 plugins tagged “spiders” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 6 spiders plugins
- 1.Robots Meta Whiz
The most installed spiders plugin, with 100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 2.
Simple Halloween Decoration For Your Page80+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 3.LJPL Armored robots.txt
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 4.
crawler-hunter10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 5.Robots.txt Extender
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
- 6.WP Bots Analytics
10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
All 6 plugins tagged “spiders”
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

Simple Halloween Decoration For Your Page
Down in the last 7 days:295#17,906by Maximilian Fink6 years ago
The plugin simply adds spiders and bugs that run across your site - the perfect halloween-decoration for your site!
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/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

crawler-hunter
Down in the last 7 days:106#34,592by naimgr831 year ago
It is a simple but effective plugin. Stops spam bots by checking browser content. You can also add an ip address to the blacklist.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- 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
WP Bots Analytics
Down in the last 7 days:8,205#46,962by Zen2Seo12 years ago
Enables tracking bots via google analytics on all pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day