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About Blackhole for Bad Bots
The Blackhole plugin helps protect your website from bad bots by adding a hidden trigger link that bots are forbidden to follow. This ensures that bad bots are denied access to your site, saving server resources for legitimate visitors. The plugin is easy to set up and works silently behind the scenes to provide security for your WordPress site.Screenshots
Frequently asked questions
What does the Blackhole plugin do?
The Blackhole plugin helps to stop bad bots and save precious resources for legit visitors.
How does the Blackhole plugin work?
The plugin adds a hidden trigger link to the footer of your pages. Bots that ignore or disobey your robots rules will crawl the link and fall into the trap. Once trapped, bad bots are denied further access to your WordPress site.
What are the features of the Blackhole plugin?
The features of the Blackhole plugin include easy setup, clean code, lightweight and fast performance, compatibility with other security plugins, easy reset and deletion of bad bots, regular updates, and more.
What is the whitelist in the Blackhole plugin?
By default, the plugin does not block major search engines and other useful bots. These bots are whitelisted via user agent and are always allowed full access to your site.
What is the privacy policy of the Blackhole plugin?
The plugin automatically blocks bad bots and stores their IP address, user agent, and other request data in the WP database. No other user data is collected. The administrator can delete all saved data anytime.
Changelog
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3.7.3 (2024/11/02)
- Fixes bug with textdomain loading
- Tests on WordPress 6.7
Full changelog @ https://plugin-planet.com/wp/changelog/blackhole-bad-bots.txt
