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Lubber – The Silent Bad Bot Blocker

Name: Lubber – The Silent Bad Bot Blocker
Author: techpot

Silently blocks AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot), scrapers and bad bots before WordPress loads - no error signal, and your analytics stay clean.

Lubber ranks #63,466 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #1,247 of 2,168 in the Analytics category, a 5/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Sep 28, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.1.1 Current Version v1.1.1

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 28 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.1.1
Last Updated: Sep 28, 2026
Requires WP: 6.2+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: techpot

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Lubber – The Silent Bad Bot Blocker

No. Real Google, Bing, and Apple crawlers are checked two independent ways before any rule can apply - by their User-Agent and by their official, published IP ranges - so a configuration mistake in one layer can't expose the other.

Activate Lubber - the "Always block named bots" rule is on by default and its bot directory already includes AI training crawlers (such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot and Bytespider) and AI search/answer crawlers (such as PerplexityBot and OAI-SearchBot). Each one can be switched off individually under Settings → Lubber → Rules, and you can add your own names to the custom list.

robots.txt is a polite request - well-behaved crawlers honor it, but a scraper can simply ignore it. Lubber matches the request itself on your server, so it works on bots that never read robots.txt, and it answers with a harmless-looking page instead of an error so the bot gets no signal to change its name and come back.

No. Googlebot, Bingbot and Applebot (Apple's search crawler) are never blocked - they're recognized by both their User-Agent and their official published IP ranges. Be aware that AI search and answer crawlers (for example ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot) fetch pages so AI assistants can cite them; if you want those citations, untick them in the bot directory and only block the AI training crawlers.

The two rules enabled by default (named-crawler blocklist and missing-trailing-slash detection) are deliberately narrow and low-risk. The broader "any no-referrer request" rule is off by default and clearly labeled as aggressive - only enable it once you've confirmed most of your real traffic arrives via search engines or another referrer.

No. This plugin does one thing - detect and quietly decoy bot/scraper traffic before it costs you server resources or pollutes your analytics. It is not a firewall, malware scanner, or login-hardening tool.

In a dedicated database table, viewable under Settings → Lubber → Activity Log. Nothing is written to server log files, and old entries are pruned automatically based on your configured retention period.