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Bottle
Bottle is a bot throttling plugin.
Bottle ranks #17,647 among WordPress.org plugins with 80+ active installations, is #1,052 of 4,596 in the Security category, and was last updated Sep 4, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1.2
v0.4.2
Current Version v0.4.2
Updated 2 weeks ago
Last Update on 04 Sep, 2026
Refreshed 10 hours ago
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#1,052 of 4,596 in Security
Top 25% by installs
Downloads -47% this week
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- Version
- 0.4.2
- Last Updated
- Sep 04, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.7+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1.2
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
- benrowland
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Bottle
Yes. It's a somewhat controversial method, and we cannot claim credit for it; ours is a rather simple implementation inspired by Anubis. Is it ethical to offload the work to your users? We're not sure. Are there PoW-solving browser extensions that intercept and offload to GPU for faster processing? Sure. Does it stop all bots? Nope. We have found that some bots will solve this. However, at this time, and for the types of traffic we see on our sites, it significantly reduces server load while allowing users access to key sections of websites that would otherwise be blocked.
Yes, with proper configuration. We have provided Varnish VCL modifications that allow Varnish to continue caching pages while passing the JWT session cookie back and forth. When a page is cached by Varnish, it will never reach Bottle. This throttle is effective on the backend only. However, when a very large website is being scanned or attacked, and many of the pages are not cached, Bottle can be an effective deterrent without reducing the effectiveness of Varnish caching.
We are a web software vendor that hosts many websites and applications for clients. We observed many WordPress sites were being routinely attacked, and these attacks caused slowdowns and outages. Recently, with the uptick in AI bot traffic, sites began experiencing bot network attacks, in which clients rapidly rotate their IP addresses. One traffic pattern we identified was one in which large content sections of a website (such as /courses/*) were being scanned. Another involved dynamically contructed URLs (for instance, the following urls are all the same: /content/a-b-c /content/a-c-b /content/b-a-c /content/b-c-a /content/c-a-b /content/c-b-a). Such URls can be easily identified with regular expressions that could block this type of traffic, and the idea for Bottle was born. Today, we run it on all of our sites. We find it protects them while minimizing user disruption. Your experience may be different. We think of Bottle as a toolkit we can configure based on the specific sites and situation.
