WordPress
WordPress web crawler for site discovery
About this crawler
WordPress is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern WordPress in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block WordPress traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.13%
Technical details
- Name
- WordPress
- Pattern
WordPress- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://wordpress.org
- Added
- 2023/10/24
- Instances
- 3 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
WordPress/X.X.X; https://example.com
WordPress/5.9; https://example.com
WordPress/6.0; https://example.com
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow WordPress:
User-agent: WordPress
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WordPress [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "WordPress") {
return 403;
}
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