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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does wordpress.org block AI crawlers?

No. wordpress.org’s robots.txt lets all 19 AI crawlers we track crawl the site. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: wordpress.org/robots.txt · 49 lines
llms.txt: found
Checked: 9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.

Every bot, and the line that decides

Search engines

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`Googlebot`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Allowed	line 36 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: PerplexityBot`
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YouBot`	You.com	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 21 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: GPTBot`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 24 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: ClaudeBot`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Allowed	line 30 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: Google-Extended`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Allowed	line 42 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: CCBot`
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	line 33 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: Applebot-Extended`
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Allowed	line 39 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: Bytespider`

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DotBot`	Moz	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

View wordpress.org/robots.txt · 49 lines

1Sitemap: https://wordpress.org/sitemap.xml

2Sitemap: https://wordpress.org/news-sitemap.xml

3Sitemap: https://wordpress.org/themes/sitemap.xml

4Sitemap: https://wordpress.org/plugins/sitemap.xml

5Sitemap: https://wordpress.org/news/sitemap.xml

6Sitemap: https://wordpress.org/showcase/sitemap.xml

7Sitemap: https://wordpress.org/documentation/sitemap.xml

8Sitemap: https://wordpress.org/patterns/sitemap.xml

9Sitemap: https://wordpress.org/photos/sitemap.xml

10User-agent: *

11Disallow: /wp-admin/

12Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

13Allow: /wp-admin/load-scripts.php

14Allow: /wp-admin/load-styles.php

16User-agent: *

17Disallow: /search

18Disallow: /?s=

20User-agent: GPTBot

21Allow: /

23User-agent: ClaudeBot

24Allow: /

26User-agent: anthropic-ai

27Allow: /

29User-agent: Google-Extended

30Allow: /

32User-agent: Applebot-Extended

33Allow: /

35User-agent: PerplexityBot

36Allow: /

38User-agent: Bytespider

39Allow: /

41User-agent: CCBot

42Allow: /

44User-agent: Copilot

45Allow: /

47User-agent: *

48Disallow: /plugins/search/

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what wordpress.org asks of crawlers. A firewall or CDN can still refuse a bot that robots.txt allows. The live check requests the page as each bot and shows the status it gets.

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History

19 October 2026: first checked.

Questions

Does wordpress.org block GPTBot?

No. wordpress.org’s robots.txt lets GPTBot crawl the site. GPTBot is OpenAI’s crawler for training data; blocking it doesn’t affect ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does wordpress.org block ClaudeBot?

No. wordpress.org’s robots.txt lets ClaudeBot crawl the site. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does wordpress.org block Google-Extended?

No. wordpress.org’s robots.txt lets Google-Extended crawl the site. Google-Extended is the token that controls whether Google may use pages for Gemini training and grounding; it doesn’t affect Google Search. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does wordpress.org block PerplexityBot?

No. wordpress.org’s robots.txt lets PerplexityBot crawl the site. PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find wordpress.org?

Yes. wordpress.org’s robots.txt lets OAI-SearchBot crawl the site. OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.