Bot Traffic Shield – Block Bad Bots and Stop AI Bots Crawlers vs Stop User Enumeration

In the age of AI, your valuable website content is a prime target for data crawlers from large tech companies. Bot Traffic Shield is your first line of defense against content theft and unauthorized scraping. This lightweight yet powerful plugin identifies and blocks a wide range of AI bots and data scrapers before they can access and harvest your content, protecting your intellectual property while reducing unnecessary server load. 🛡️ Why You Need Bot Traffic Shield Protect Your Content – Stop AI companies from training their models on your hard work Reduce Server Load – Block unwanted traffic that wastes your bandwidth and resources SEO-Safe Blocking – Only blocks harmful bots; legitimate search engines like Google and Bing remain unaffected Take Control – Decide who can and cannot access your valuable content ✨ Key Features Real-Time Bot Blocking * Actively blocks bots by their User-Agent on every page request * Immediate protection with zero configuration needed Comprehensive Default Blocklist * Pre-configured list of 20+ known AI crawlers and scrapers * Includes ChatGPT-User, Google-Extended, GPTBot, CCBot, Bytespider, Amazonbot, Applebot, and more * Regularly updated with new bot signatures Advanced Logging & Analytics * Track every blocked bot attempt with detailed logs * View bot name, IP address, user agent, and timestamp * Pagination system – Browse through logs easily (20 entries per page) * Running statistics showing total blocked requests CSV Export Capability * Export your block logs to CSV format * Filter exports by date range (7 days, 30 days, or all time) * Perfect for analysis, reporting, or compliance robots.txt Integration * Automatically adds Disallow rules to your virtual robots.txt * Provides an additional layer of protection for well-behaved bots Fully Customizable * Add your own custom User-Agent strings to block * Simple textarea interface – one bot per line * Enable/disable logging with a single toggle * Master on/off switch for all blocking features Modern, Intuitive Interface * Beautiful, clean admin UI with tabbed navigation * Modern toggle switches and card-based design * Mobile-responsive admin panel * No learning curve – start protecting immediately Lightweight & Performance-Optimized * Minimal impact on site speed * Efficient code that runs before page load * No external API calls or database queries on frontend 🎯 Who Is This Plugin For? Content Creators – Protect your articles, tutorials, and creative work Bloggers – Keep your unique content from being scraped News Sites – Prevent unauthorized content aggregation E-commerce – Protect product descriptions and pricing data Any WordPress Site – That values their content and server resources 🚀 How It Works Install and activate the plugin Bot Traffic Shield immediately starts blocking known bad bots Monitor blocked attempts in the logs Add custom bots to block as needed Export logs for analysis or record-keeping No complicated setup. No API keys. No subscriptions. 🔒 Privacy & Security All data stays on your server No external services or third-party dependencies GDPR compliant – you control all logged data Logs can be cleared at any time by disabling logging 📊 Perfect For ✅ Reducing bandwidth costs ✅ Protecting original content ✅ Improving server performance ✅ Maintaining competitive advantage ✅ Preventing AI training on your data Stop letting AI companies profit from your hard work. Install Bot Traffic Shield and take back control of your content today! Privacy Policy Bot Traffic Shield logs the following information when a bot is blocked (if logging is enabled): * User-Agent string * IP address * Request timestamp * Requested URL All data is stored locally in your WordPress database. No information is sent to external servers. You can disable logging or clear logs at any time from the plugin settings. Support For support, feature requests, or bug reports: * Visit our website: https://monarchwp.com/ * Email: [email protected] Credits Developed by MonarchWP

Stop User Enumeration is a security plugin designed to detect and prevent hackers scanning your site for user login names. User Enumeration is a type of attack where nefarious parties can probe your website to discover your login name. This is often a pre-cursor to brute-force password attacks. Stop User Enumeration helps block this initial attack and allows you to log IPs launching these attacks to block further attacks in the future. Tools like WPSCAN are designed for use by ethical hackers and make efforts to find user login names. Ethical hackers ask permission first, this plugin is designed to reduce the tools when used without permission and when used in conjunction with fail2ban can block those attempts at the firewall. If you are on a VPS or dedicated server, as the attack IP is logged, you can use (optional additional configuration) fail2ban to block the attack directly at your server’s firewall, a very powerful solution for VPS owners to stop brute force attacks as well as DDoS attacks. If you don’t have access to install fail2ban ( e.g. on a Shared Host ) you can still use this plugin. The plugin can stop the user id being leaked by the oEmbed API call. Since WordPress 4.5 user data can also be obtained by API calls without logging in, this is a WordPress feature, but if you don’t need it to get user data, this plugin will restrict and log that too. Since WordPress 5.5 sitemaps are generated by core WP ( wp-sitemap.xml ) which includes a user/author sitemap that exposes the user id. You can enable / disable this in the plugin settings. PHP 8.4 compatible Tested on PHP 8.4 Features Include Blocks user enumeration requests by GET or POST Syslogs a block so Fail2Ban can be used to block an IP Optionally blocks REST API user requests for non authorized users Optionally removes author sitemap Optionally removes author from OEMBED Optionally removes numbers from comment authors Privacy This plugin includes an optional email feature for plugin news and updates. When enabled: Your email address may be sent to https://fullworksplugins.com for important plugin updates and security notices This is completely optional and requires your explicit consent via the opt-in form in the plugin settings No data is collected or transmitted without your permission You can opt-out at any time from the plugin settings No other personal data is collected or transmitted to external services The plugin logs attempted user enumeration attacks locally using WordPress’s standard logging system: * IP addresses of potential attackers are logged locally for security monitoring * These logs remain on your server and are not transmitted to any external service * Logs can be used with fail2ban or similar tools for enhanced security For more information about data handling, please visit https://fullworksplugins.com/privacy-policy/