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.
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.
Block or allow access by country using a local MaxMind GeoLite2 database, with IP, user role, and URL exceptions.
Live monitoring for WordPress visitors, users, WooCommerce carts, bots and suspicious requests with privacy-friendly options.
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.
Visitor Sentinelv3.0.3
Monitors visitors, detects bots and attackers, plants honeypots, checks threat intel, and blocks malicious IPs in real time.
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 …
Detect ChatGPT, Claude, Meta AI and other AI crawlers visiting your WordPress website.