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.

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Blackhole for Bad Bots

Blackhole is a WordPress security plugin that detects and traps bad bots in a virtual black hole, where they are denied access to your entire site.

Rating:

4.8

Active Installations:

30000+

Last Updated:

Nov 03, 2024

WordPress Version:

4.6 or higher

Tested up to:

6.7.2

Features Download’s trend Changelog Reviews

Stop bad bots.

Protect your site from bad bots and save server resources.

Prevent bad bots from wasting server resources and protect your website with the Blackhole plugin.

Set up the Blackhole plugin easily and enjoy clean and efficient code.

The Blackhole plugin is lightweight and fast, ensuring optimal performance for your site.

Easy setup, clean code.

The plugin automatically whitelists major search engines, allowing them full access to your site.

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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

Beware!

By silversky99 on February 21, 2025

More than 6 months after deletion its still generating trash pages on Google Search Console(thousands). Even after cleaning everything. Still generating...

Together with BBQ Firewall the best plugin for WordPress security!

By nmrockswp on February 16, 2025

Together with BBQ Firewall the best plugin for WordPress security!

Long Sought, Long Needed Plugin. Well done!

By cole1969 on September 26, 2024

Very Well done!

Didn't work, and too many features gatekept

By abctaylor on September 23, 2024

Didn't work in testing on latest WP + Nginx 1.14.1 when following the nofollow link. The logs should at least be viewable to the site admin, it's just mean gatekeeping that.

Works perfectly, prevents Malware injection

By galliweb on August 20, 2024

The plugin does an amazing job. I have one "research-test-site" where I use a combination of plugins, that are not supported any longer. The result: the site is getting hacked (Malware injection) every 1-2 weeks. Then I restored the site and audited it again. Wordfence free didn't do anything, well they correctly found the corrupted files but didn't prevent anything. With Blackhole, the problem is fixed. I get 1-2 warnings per week, that a bad bot was blocked. Works great, thank you for your solution!

Not working

By hangist on July 18, 2024

Sorry, but you guys failed to block Amazon bot and Claudebot, these AI tools are killers. Since i set it up at 2am, I have over 50000 requests and it is 10 am.

Criminal IP marks this plugin as phishing

By rainforest10005 on June 18, 2024

I added this to my site; when I tried to add Google Analytics, they scanned my site and then my URL was marked with phishing -- this plugin was one of the culprits. I don't believe this plugin itself has phishing content, but the way it's coded into the website gives a red flag to Criminal IP because it's a 'hidden element.' I'm getting this report with some other plugins too, but I just wanted to make everyone aware in case this ever happens to them.

Did not work with LSCache

By jezkerw on March 11, 2024

I hate to give a negative score and I am sure it's a great plugin for those who have a set up where it works, but for me it turned out this plugin was not compatible with LSCache. Had to uninstall it.

Edit: I changed the score after discussions with the author. It's a great plugin and I was being unfair. Hope to see with work with cache plugins in the future.

One of the best plugins for destroying bots and spam!!

By Olegas (motor721) on March 8, 2024

One of the best plugins for destroying all kinds of XRumer bots and spam mailings!! After installation, spam mailings and bots from order forms no longer arrive on the site!! Thanks to the author, he is GOD!!

Simple and Effective

By Jason (jasonakajax) on March 1, 2024

This is a great, easy to setup, plugin, that I highly recommend. I have it installed on about 15 websites I manage. A simple and effective solution for cutting down on malicious and resource wasting bot activity.

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Blackhole for Bad Bots

Stop bad bots.

Protect your site from bad bots and save server resources.

Prevent bad bots from wasting server resources and protect your website with the Blackhole plugin.

Set up the Blackhole plugin easily and enjoy clean and efficient code.

The Blackhole plugin is lightweight and fast, ensuring optimal performance for your site.

Easy setup, clean code.

The plugin automatically whitelists major search engines, allowing them full access to your site.

Beware!

Together with BBQ Firewall the best plugin for WordPress security!

Long Sought, Long Needed Plugin. Well done!

Didn't work, and too many features gatekept

Works perfectly, prevents Malware injection

Not working

Criminal IP marks this plugin as phishing

Did not work with LSCache

One of the best plugins for destroying bots and spam!!

Simple and Effective

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