Title: Wayback Machine (web.archive)
Last modified: October 20, 2025

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# Wayback Machine (web.archive)

 *  Resolved [ywokxa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ywokxa/)
 * (@ywokxa)
 * [7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wayback-machine-web-archive/)
 * Hello, I am wondering if the Wordfence plugin can block the archiving of my website
   on web.archive.org. If so, how can I prevent Wordfence from blocking archiving?

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 *  Plugin Support [wfphil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfphil/)
 * (@wfphil)
 * [7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wayback-machine-web-archive/#post-18687924)
 * Hi [@ywokxa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ywokxa/),
 * You can ask them for the latest **User-Agent** that they use for their crawler
   bot via their contact email [info@archive.org](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wayback-machine-web-archive/info@archive.org?output_format=md)
 * Once you have fully confirmed the **User-Agent** that they use then then you 
   can create a **User-Agent** **Custom Pattern** blocking rule on the **Firewall**
   >> **Blocking **page. Our guide for this is below:
 * [https://www.wordfence.com/help/blocking/#custom-pattern](https://www.wordfence.com/help/blocking/#custom-pattern)

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 * Last activity: [7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wayback-machine-web-archive/#post-18687924)
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