Yes. Add to your theme or a small plugin:
add_filter(‘ai_bot_monitor_ip_whitelist’, fn($w)=>array_merge($w, [‘123.123.123.123’]));
Does it impact performance?
Minimal. The plugin writes lightweight, line-based logs and skips admin, AJAX, and cron requests.
Key Features
Automatic MU-Plugin Migration – activates once, moves itself to /mu-plugins/ for guaranteed uptime
AI Crawler Detection – GPTBot, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, CCBot, Applebot, and 40 + more
Daily CSV Logging – per-day files auto-rotated (30-day retention)
Dashboard Overview – live stats with AI-layer grouping (e.g. Chrome/141 for ChatGPT)
ZIP Export – one-click archive download for all logs
Lightweight – no external calls, no database writes, pure file-based logging
Privacy-safe – no user tracking, only bot metadata
⚙️ How It Works
Upload ai-bot-monitor.zip through Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
Activate the plugin.
On activation, it:
Creates /wp-content/mu-plugins/ai-bot-monitor-loader.php
Deactivates the normal plugin copy
Loads itself once via MU-plugin
Visit Dashboard → AI Bot Monitor to view daily logs.
If filesystem permissions block MU-loader creation, the plugin continues as a normal plugin until permissions allow migration.
📊 Dashboard Overview
The dashboard groups detected crawlers by signature, including:
Signature Description
GPTBot OpenAI crawler
Chrome/141 ChatGPT / Copilot retrieval layer
Chrome/134 Perplexity / Bing AI layer
Claude Anthropic web/app crawler
CCBot Common Crawl (training datasets)
Googlebot, Bingbot Search engine crawlers
Bytespider TikTok / ByteDance crawler
You can export all logs anytime with “Download All Logs (ZIP)”.
🗂 Log Storage
Logs are written to
/wp-content/uploads/ai-bot-monitor/log-YYYY-MM-DD.csv
Each entry includes:
time, ip, user_agent, url
Old files older than 30 days are automatically deleted.
🔒 Security & Performance
Runs on init hook with early priority 0
Doesn’t touch the database
Compatible with caching and static HTML plugins
Does not expose data publicly
Only administrators can access the dashboard and export
🪶 Changelog
1.4
Complete rewrite with auto-migration to MU-plugin
Prevented double-load across plugin/MU contexts
Added success notice after migration
Hardened Zip export (ZIP extension check)
Code cleanup for WordPress.org submission compliance
1.3 → 1.4 migration note
If a previous version exists, the new installer will safely create the MU-loader and deactivate the old instance automatically.
📜 License
This plugin is open-source and distributed under the GNU GPL v2 or later.
You are free to use, modify, and redistribute under the same license.
