Title: [Plugin: Wordfence Security] Blocking certain spiders
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# [Plugin: Wordfence Security] Blocking certain spiders

 *  [kaspar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaspar/)
 * (@kaspar)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordfence-security-blocking-certain-spiders/)
 * Hi!
 * I’ve been getting a lot of “traffic” from search engine spiders in Russia and
   China. I do not do business with anyone in either of those countries. So far,
   I’ve been blocking the IP addresses (and making them permanently blocked) but
   that’s becoming tedious. These spiders have a LOT of IP addresses they can use.
 * Question: If I block the spiders via .htaccess, will they be blocked BEFORE my
   Wordfence even sees the hits? If so, then can I assume that they won’t show in
   the Live Traffic report? Is there some way to test and verify this?
 * Thanks in advance!
 * P.S. If anyone would like to see the code I put into .htaccess for blocking these
   spiders, let me know and I’ll post it for all to see. I got various bits of it
   from several places and put it all together.
 * -Steve

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