Title: WP BadBot Protection
Author: siteguarding
Published: <strong>December 28, 2018</strong>
Last modified: June 5, 2020

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# wp-badbot-protection

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-badbot-protection/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-badbot-protection/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-badbot-protection/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-badbot-protection/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of June 5, 2020 and is not available for download.
This closure is permanent. Reason: Guideline Violation.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Useful plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/useful-plugin-622/)󠁿

 [pcarrot](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pcarrot/) April 10, 2020

Easy to use. Great complete solution for my blog, many useful features. Highly recommend!

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[not free!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-free-147/)󠁿

 [heddo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/heddo/) April 2, 2020

You should inform users in the description of the plugin, that this product is NOT
free in any ways.

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### 󠀁[Simply Great!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simply-great-211/)󠁿

 [webspidersolution](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webspidersolution/) January 
21, 2020

Helped me to stop DDOS attack on my WP site!

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### 󠀁[Perfomance Increase](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfomance-increase/)󠁿

 [foryahoo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/foryahoo/) January 17, 2019

Great solution if you care about security and website performance. Works just fine!

 [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-badbot-protection/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“WP BadBot Protection” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ SiteGuarding ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/siteguarding/)

[Translate “WP BadBot Protection” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-badbot-protection)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-badbot-protection/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-badbot-protection/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-badbot-protection/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-badbot-protection/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.5**
 *  Last updated **6 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.4.19**
 *  PHP version ** 5.2.4 or higher **
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-badbot-protection/advanced/)