Active installations400Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.7 / 5 from 3 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records AI Scrape Protect version 5.1 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
AI Scrape Protect is a WordPress plugin designed to protect your website from scraping for AI training purposes. txt file for the most common AI scraping bots and including meta tags to control how your content is used.
0 introduces a full settings page with granular per-bot control, categorised bot management, AJAX-powered toggles, and support for custom user agents.
Features
Adds User-agent and Disallow rules to your robots.txt file to block a comprehensive list of AI scraping bots.
Generates compact robots.txt output: all blocked bots are grouped under a single Disallow: / directive.
Introduces meta tags in the HTML <head> to provide additional instructions to AI bots.
Separate toggles for content meta tags ( noai, nosummary, DisallowAITraining ) and image meta tags ( noimageai ).
Settings page with five categorised tabs: Search Engines, AI Training, AI Search & Answers, General Indexing, Custom Bots.
Group toggle per category to block or allow all bots in that category at once.
Individual per-bot toggle with description and company information for each bot.
Custom bots tab: add and remove your own user agent strings.
Global enable/disable toggle and separate toggles for robots.txt and meta tags.
“Apply default settings” button to reset all options.
Admin bar icon linking to the settings page (visible to administrators only). Icon reflects the current enabled state.
Physical robots.txt detection notice: warns you if a file in your root directory overrides WordPress’s virtual robots.txt.
Fully AJAX-powered settings page: changes are saved instantly without page reloads.
Extensible via the aisp_user_agents filter for developers.
Multisite note: settings are stored per site using get_option / update_option. Network-wide configuration is not supported.
txt and meta tag opt-out instructions are not always respected by all bots. This plugin is a measure to discourage scraping rather than a guaranteed technical block.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
ai scraping protection
robots txt
robots.txt
security
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.0 · PHP 8.0
Update activity18 Sept 20261mo ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
Version5.0→5.1
WordPress compatibility7.0.4→7.1.1
Tracking & source
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