WordPress

seo 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%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: WordPress
2026-05-012026-06-040.17%

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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