Tartarus Bot Ban Tartarus in ancient Greek mythology is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as a prison for the Titans. With this plugin, you can send bad bots that crawl your website to Tartarus and ban them from your website!

What is this plugin about?

+ Want to know exactly which bots visited your site, when and how many times?

+ Want to automatically ban bots that don’t follow the directives in your robots.txt file (trust me, there are a lot of them)?

+ Want to automatically ban bots that spam your site’s comment section with automated text?

+ Want to make your comment form more secure by adding a simple ReCaptcha?

+ Want to get rid of referrer spam in your Google Analytics web stats?

+ Want to ban known bad bots that abuse your site, slowing down its speed?

+ Want to have full control over your site’s crawling?

+ No problem!

What can you do with this plugin?

You can create a bad crawler trap that will block access to ‘bad bots’ – those that do not respect the rules defined in the robots.txt file.

You can create a honeypot trap that will catch all bots that automatically leave comments on your site, spamming or pinging.

You can automatically block all known ‘bad bots’ (based on their user agent) from accessing your site. For a full list of these bots, see the plugin documentation.

You can automatically block all ‘good bots’ (this includes those with real SEO value – GoogleBot, BingBot, Yandex, etc.)

You can register bots as site visitors and human-like bots and view site traffic reports in the plugin’s settings panel.

You can exclude bot names that you do not want banned under any circumstances

You can exclude bot IP addresses that you do not want banned under any circumstances

You can set this plugin to send an automatic email every time a new bot is banned

You can customize the message shown to banned bots

You can set user banning to always allow access, even for banned users, to the login and admin page – to ensure that you do not get blocked from your own WordPress installation.

You can set this plugin to always allow access to the site for logged-in users

Referral spam blocker – you can block a wide range of known sources of referral spam – don’t worry about spikes caused by referral spam in Google Analytics

You can add a layer of protection to your site by automatically blocking a wide range of bots malicious users using your .htaccess file.

You can integrate Google’s fully customizable ReCaptcha technology into your comments, login, registration, and forgotten password forms.

You can edit your robots.txt file with ease. Don’t worry, if something goes wrong, the ‘Restore Defaults’ button is right there for you!

You can edit your .htaccess file with ease. Don’t worry, if something goes wrong, the ‘Restore Defaults’ button is right there for you!

You can add a robots meta tag to all your page types, including: NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW, NOODP, and NOYDIR. Page types include: posts, pages, homepage, category, archive, search, taxonomy, not found, tag, and media.

You can add manual rules to ban users. Add a custom IP address or user agent and it will be banned until the rule is activated.

You can add an obfuscated email address to your website content (it will normally be displayed to human visitors, but bots cannot read it and steal it) – by adding the shortcode [tartarus_add_secure_email email=”  example@email.com  ”]. Wildcard support when manually adding rules.

Not enough features for you? This plugin is also fully mobile-friendly, translation-ready, speed-optimized – no impact on speed