Title: BotGate – AI Crawler Control Author: Anil Published: October 25, 2026 Last modified: October 28, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/anilsuwal-botgate/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3764873) ![](https://ps.w.org/anilsuwal-botgate/assets/icon.svg?rev=3764873) # BotGate – AI Crawler Control By [Anil](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anilsuwal16/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/anilsuwal-botgate.1.0.1.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/anilsuwal-botgate/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/anilsuwal-botgate/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/anilsuwal-botgate/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/anilsuwal-botgate/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/anilsuwal-botgate/) ## Description AI companies send crawlers to read websites, some to train models and some to answer questions in AI search. BotGate lets you decide which of them may read your site, from one screen under **Settings BotGate**. **AI bot control** * A table of known AI crawlers: name, company, purpose (AI training, AI search or user request) and an Allow / Block switch. * Three one-click presets: **Block training, allow search** (recommended), **Block all AI bots** and **Allow all AI bots**. Fine-tune any bot after picking one. * Rules are added to WordPress’s virtual robots.txt through the `robots_txt` filter, between `# BEGIN BotGate` and `# END BotGate`. BotGate never edits a file on your server. * A live preview shows exactly which rules will be added before you save. * Conflict detection warns you when a physical robots.txt file overrides the virtual one, when the site discourages search engines, when WordPress is installed in a subdirectory, or when plain permalinks are used. * A Site Health test (Tools Site Health) reports the same conflicts. **llms.txt generator** * Publishes a Markdown file at `/llms.txt` with your site name, a short description, the pages you choose and the latest posts from the categories you choose. * Preview the file before saving. * Regenerates automatically when you publish, update or delete content. * Password-protected, private and draft content is never included. **Privacy** The free version makes no external requests and does no tracking. **Known bots in this release** GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User (OpenAI) · ClaudeBot, Claude-User (Anthropic)· Google-Extended (Google) · PerplexityBot (Perplexity) · CCBot (Common Crawl) · Bytespider( ByteDance) · Applebot-Extended (Apple) · Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta). The list ships with the plugin and is updated with each release. Developers can change it with the `botgate_bots` filter. ## Screenshots [⌊AI Bots screen with presets, the crawler table and the robots.txt preview.⌉⌊AI Bots screen with presets, the crawler table and the robots.txt preview.⌉[ AI Bots screen with presets, the crawler table and the robots.txt preview. [⌊Changing a single bot switches to custom rules and updates the preview.⌉⌊Changing a single bot switches to custom rules and updates the preview.⌉[ Changing a single bot switches to custom rules and updates the preview. [⌊llms.txt screen with content selection and the live preview.⌉⌊llms.txt screen with content selection and the live preview.⌉[ llms.txt screen with content selection and the live preview. [⌊Settings screen.⌉⌊Settings screen.⌉[ Settings screen. [⌊The AI Bots screen on a phone.⌉⌊The AI Bots screen on a phone.⌉[ The AI Bots screen on a phone. ## Installation 1. Upload the `anilsuwal-botgate` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`, or install the plugin from the Plugins screen. 2. Activate it. 3. Go to **Settings BotGate**. The recommended preset (block training, allow search) is active by default. 4. Open the **llms.txt** tab, choose the pages and categories to list, and click ** Save and regenerate**. ## FAQ ### Does robots.txt actually stop AI bots? robots.txt is a request. The major AI companies say their crawlers respect it, but a bot can ignore it. ### I have a robots.txt file in my site root. Will BotGate work? No. A physical file is served by your web server before WordPress runs, so the virtual robots.txt (and BotGate’s rules) is never used. BotGate warns you about this. Delete or rename the file, or copy the BotGate rules from the preview into it. ### Does it work with Yoast SEO, Rank Math or All in One SEO? BotGate is built to work alongside them. Those plugins also use the `robots_txt` filter; BotGate adds its block after theirs (priority 20) and never duplicates it. ### Why does /llms.txt return a 404? Go to **Settings Permalinks** and click **Save Changes** to refresh the rewrite rules. With plain permalinks, the file is served at `/?botgate_llms=1`. ### Which content is included in llms.txt? Only the pages and categories you select, and only published content that is not password-protected or private. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “BotGate – AI Crawler Control” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Anil ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anilsuwal16/) [Translate “BotGate – AI Crawler Control” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/anilsuwal-botgate) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/anilsuwal-botgate/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/anilsuwal-botgate/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/anilsuwal-botgate/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/anilsuwal-botgate/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.1 Add Multilanguage options * #### 1.0.0 * First release. ## Meta * Version **1.0.1** * Last updated **24 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.4** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [AI](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ai/)[crawler](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/crawler/) [gptbot](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gptbot/)[llms.txt](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/llms-txt/) [robots.txt](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/robots-txt/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/anilsuwal-botgate/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/anilsuwal-botgate/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/anilsuwal-botgate/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Anil ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anilsuwal16/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/anilsuwal-botgate/)