Title: Blocking User Agents Assistance
Last modified: May 24, 2025

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# Blocking User Agents Assistance

 *  Resolved [estevancarlos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estevancarlos/)
 * (@estevancarlos)
 * [11 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-user-agents-assistance/)
 * Is this the correct way to block user agents? And if I want to block crawlers
   such as Bytespider and python-requests, is this also the correct approach?
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    -  This topic was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by [estevancarlos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estevancarlos/).

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 *  Plugin Support [wfpeter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfpeter/)
 * (@wfpeter)
 * [11 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-user-agents-assistance/#post-18484379)
 * Hi [@estevancarlos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estevancarlos/), thank-
   you for your question.
 * That is the correct place to create a custom block for a User-Agent. I notice
   there are [a number of User-Agents](https://www.aqtronix.com/useragents/?Action=ShowAgentDetails&Name=ClaudeBot)
   that ClaudeBot can use so you’re probably better off creating a rule for `ClaudeBot*`
   so that it catches anything starting with “ClaudeBot”.
 * There’s a little more documentation about this here: [https://www.wordfence.com/help/blocking/#custom-pattern](https://www.wordfence.com/help/blocking/#custom-pattern)
 * Thanks,
   Peter.

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 * Last activity: [11 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-user-agents-assistance/#post-18484379)
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