Monitor traffic and ban unwanted visitors. Block any user or IP address so they can't access your site.
Alternatives to WP-Ban
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WordPress plugins with similar use cases
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EDH Bad Botsv1.7.4
A smart WordPress plugin that automatically blocks malicious bots and crawlers that ignore your site's robots.txt file.
Block or allow access by country using a local MaxMind GeoLite2 database, with IP, user role, and URL exceptions.
With the help of WhatIsMyBrowser the plugin detects old and bad browsers and denies them access. A special robots.txt denies crawling by bad bots.
Visitor Sentinelv3.0.3
Monitors visitors, detects bots and attackers, plants honeypots, checks threat intel, and blocks malicious IPs in real time.
Blocks referer/referral spam bots from accessing your site and keeps them out of your analytics.
The fastest firewall plugin for WordPress. Protect against a wide range of threats with minimal performance impact.
Live monitoring for WordPress visitors, users, WooCommerce carts, bots and suspicious requests with privacy-friendly options.
ParseLessv1.0.0
Serve AI the good version of your content, see which bots really read it, and cap what they cost you. Markdown for crawlers and agents — 95%+ less ban …
Limpark Bot Monitorv1.0.1
Monitor search engine bots visiting your WordPress website in real time.