SpiderBlocker will block most common bots that consume bandwidth and slow down your blog.
Spider Blocker blocks most common bots that consume bandwidth and slow down your blog.
It accomplishes this by using .htaccess file to minimize impact on your website. It’s hidden from external scanners.
Spider Blocker is specifically designed for Apache servers with mod_rewrite enabled, allowing you to effortlessly safeguard your website from the most prevalent bots that hamper performance and drain resources.
Will rules stay active after I deactivate the plugin?
No, it’s a good practice for plugins to remove all changes they made to the blog, thus rules will also be deleted from .htaccess.