Lightweight, behavior-based bot firewall. Blocks scanners before WordPress loads, with text attack reports for your hosting company.
Alternatives to PSB Bot Traffic Controller
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Relevant replacements
WordPress plugins with similar use cases
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SEOmarketeer Bot Flaggerv1.2.0
Logs every request and tells you what it really is: a person, a search engine, an AI crawler, your own cache, or an attack.
Silently blocks AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot), scrapers and bad bots before WordPress loads - no error signal, and your analytics stay clean.
Protects WordPress from DDoS with rate limiting, bot detection, blocking, Cloudflare support, logs, charts, and bot list export/import.
RokthamBotv1.0.0
Complete AI bot firewall with per-bot controls, verified detection, emergency lockdown, and referral tracking.
Watrix Bot Guardv1.5.3
Log automated traffic with four kinds of rules, then rate-limit and block the offending IPs. Record first, block once you have seen the real data.
Protect your site from bad bots, manage allow/deny for search engines, AI crawlers, and more.
Prevent and stop bots traffic. This plugin inserts in your website the CloudFilt codes for the security tracking available on https://cloudfilt.com/.
Smart WordPress security that blocks bots automatically, guides you to what matters, and repairs problems — without drowning you in noise.
AI Denyv0.1.2
Block 30+ AI crawlers in your robots.txt, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot and CCBot, and choose exactly which bots get in.