AI Crawler Guard

AI Crawler Guard detects popular AI-focused crawlers and lets you block or allow them from scraping your WordPress site. Everything runs locally—rules, decisions, logs, and history stay on your server.

• Built-in signatures for common AI bots, plus optional custom patterns
• Global and per-crawler allow/block controls
• Local crawler registry with first/last seen timestamps and hit counters
• Lightweight logs with optional retention cap
• No external calls or remote storage

Requirements

• WordPress 5.8 or newer
• PHP 7.4+
• Works with Classic Editor, Gutenberg, WooCommerce, and major managed hosts
• Respects wp-admin, wp-login, REST API, cron, and CLI contexts automatically

Performance

• Detection runs once per front-end request (small O(n) UA scan)
• No blocking of social preview bots (Facebook, Meta, Twitter, LinkedIn) by default
• Assets load only on plugin admin pages and stay under 10 KB
• Logs stay capped by your configured limit with auto-pruning

Privacy

All detection logic and data storage live entirely inside WordPress. No data is sent to third-party services in v1.