Spider Blocker
Spider Blocker blocks most common bots that consume bandwidth and slow down your blog. It accomplishes this by using .htaccess file to minimize impact on your website. It’s hidden from external scanners. Spider Blocker is specifically designed for Apache servers with mod_rewrite enabled, allowing yo
About this tool.
Spider Blocker blocks most common bots that consume bandwidth and slow down your blog. It accomplishes this by using .htaccess file to minimize impact on your website. It’s hidden from external scanners.
Spider Blocker is specifically designed for Apache servers with mod_rewrite enabled, allowing you to effortlessly safeguard your website from the most prevalent bots that hamper performance and drain resources.
Plugin Features
- Block Unlimited bots from viewing your site
- Easy Export/Import rules (comes with most common list of bots)
- Zero Footprint
Getting started.
- 01Upload ‘spider-blocker’ directory to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
- 02Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- 03Go to Tools menu and then **SpiderBlocker* to configure
- 04If you use any other plugin to edit .htaccess file, make sure that content of file is valid
Frequently asked questions.
Will rules stay active after I deactivate the plugin? No, it’s a good practice for plugins to remove all changes they made to the blog, thus rules will also be deleted from .htaccess.