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Block Chat GPT via robots.txt

Blocks the ChatGPT-User bot that is used by plugins in ChatGPT to crawl websites through the WordPress virtual robots.txt file

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Tested up to WordPress 6.3
Current version2.0.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.3
Minimum stackWP 5.9 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update8 Aug 20233y ago
Active installations100Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 1 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Block Chat GPT via robots.txt version 2.0.0 as active, updated 3y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.3.

Overview

About this plugin

txt file that WordPress creates automagically if the file is not present physically on the server to block the OpenAI ChatGPT-User bot that is used by plugins in ChatGPT to crawl websites. Here is the information about the ChatGPT-User bot. It also blocks the the GPTBot user agent that may potentially be used to improve future models.

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txt file to tell Open AI Chat GPT bots (ChatGPT-User + GPTBot) to not to crawl and index parts of this website.

Please only activate this plugin if you know what you’re doing.

What can I do with this plugin?

txt file that WordPress creates automagically to block the OpenAI ChatGPT-User bot that is used by plugins in ChatGPT to crawl websites + the GPTBot user agent that may potentially be used to improve future models.

What ideas is this plugin based on?

None. txt file and this was the solution we coded.

In August 2023 OpenAI added information about the GPTBot so we added this user-agent to the plugin.

What is the robots.txt file?

txt file is a plain text file located at the root folder of a domain (or subdomain) which tells web crawlers (like Googlebot) what parts of the website they should access and index.

txt file and it controls how search engine spiders see and interact with the web pages.

System requirements

4 or greater.

4 or higher because we believe that everybody should be running a modern PHP version. 4 or higher. 4 has no security updates since 28 Nov 2022.

How to get this plugin in your Language!

The first release is avaliable in English and Spanish. In the “languages” folder we have included the necessary files to translate this plugin.

If you would like the plugin in your language and you’re good at translating, please use the native WordPress Translation functionality.

New to Translating a plugin? First read through the Translator Handbook, then select your locale at Translating WordPress and finally go to the translation page for this plugin to translate it.

Further Reading

txt en español.

Contact

For further information please send us an email.

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • robots txt
  • bot
  • crawler
  • robot
  • robots.txt
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.3

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.3.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.3
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.9 · PHP 7.4
Update activity8 Aug 20233y ago

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