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edh-bad-bots

EDH Bad Bots

A smart WordPress plugin that automatically blocks malicious bots and crawlers that ignore your site's robots.txt file.

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22.9 Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org
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Proof Health

Open evidence

Commercial opportunities need traceable source links before they are treated as build-worthy.

26 / 44 rows with source links

59.1% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

18 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days
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Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87
Can GoogleBot be blocked when i accidentally misconfigure robots.txt?

Can GoogleBot be blocked when i accidentally misconfigure robots.txt?: users show bugs, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Proof Blocked card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Can GoogleBot be blocked when i accidentally misconfigure robots.txt?
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Simple, does the job

Simple, does the job: users praise easy, reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Proof Blocked card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Simple, does the job Interface is easy to understand, easy to access the list of blocked bots or add/remove things to/from the whitelist.

Competitor Context

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Login No Captcha reCAPTCHA praise owner · intel 69.7 · weakness 52.7
praise owner
14 collected complaint signal(s) security compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1 source 2
GM Block Bots praise owner · intel 68.7 · weakness 55.0
praise owner
stale update history 5 collected complaint signal(s) security setup 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test bots lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1 source 2
Spider Blocker praise owner · intel 67.4 · weakness 52.6
praise owner
stale update history 3 collected complaint signal(s) value compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor SEO drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
source 1 source 2
Blackhole for Bad Bots praise owner · intel 64.8 · weakness 44.9
praise owner
6 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1 source 2
Richpanel – Customer Support Helpdesk & Chat praise owner · intel 57.4 · weakness 42.6
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating support compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: support-heavy site owners, agencies, and community operators · Wedge: triage repeated live chat threads, failed replies, knowledge gaps, and escalation workload
source 1 source 2
BBQ Firewall – Fast & Powerful Firewall Security praise owner · intel 51.0 · weakness 26.2
praise owner
security bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1 source 2
Block Comment Spam Bots praise owner · intel 48.3 · weakness 37.1
praise owner
stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test spam lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1 source 2

Repeated Themes

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No repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.

Collected Signals

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complaint Can GoogleBot be blocked when i accidentally misconfigure robots.txt? support · 2026-06-11T15:28:20+00:00 · medium severity · bots

Can GoogleBot be blocked when i accidentally misconfigure robots.txt?: users show bugs, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Can GoogleBot be blocked when i accidentally misconfigure robots.txt?
bugs performance missing feature setup trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin
praise Simple, does the job (5 stars) review · 2025-12-24T06:51:31+00:00 · medium severity · bots

Simple, does the job: users praise easy, reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Simple, does the job Interface is easy to understand, easy to access the list of blocked bots or add/remove things to/from the whitelist.
easy reliable cache trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source plugin