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WP Robots Txt
Simple relief for anyone needing a quick robots.txt tweak.
Healthy
70/100
This small utility performs its specific task well despite a small number of hollow reviews.
Active installs
~55,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 50k+
Rating
5.0★
21 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-3%
Holding steady
154 → 149 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 11 months
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Holding steady · -3% in the last year
154/day a year ago→149/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Robots Txt is a well-regarded, lightweight plugin for editing the robots.txt file in WordPress, including multisite support, though at least one user found it failed to actually update the file despite following instructions.
What people like
- +Simple and easy to use, does what it advertises×4
- +Supports multisite installations, giving each blog its own robots.txt
- +Responsive and effective support
- +Extensible via filters for dynamic functionality not built in
Common complaints
- −Following the plugin's instructions did not result in the robots.txt file being updated for at least one user
- −No built-in dynamic replacement functionality (e.g. inserting site URL into sitemap path automatically)
- −The editing interface is not immediately obvious — it is located under Settings > Reading, not a dedicated menu, which can confuse users
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.95★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 5.00★
- 9%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-01-162025-04-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 21 total
Latest reviews · 22 analyzed
- 2025-07-27★★★★★Works perfectly and effective support!olistic
- 2025-04-21★★★★★Doesn't workandrewpeterson
- 2025-01-07★★★★★Easy robots.txt editGeorge Kpax
- 2024-01-16★★★★★Simple and works!xeniajfp
- 2022-10-21★★★★★OttimoGregorio
- 2019-01-15★★★★★IT just started blocking googleseamonster1241-shot
- 2018-01-15★★★★★GoodDima Stefantsov
- 2016-01-18★★★★★Nice pluginrpaananen
- 2015-07-28★★★★★Nice plugin!Silky345234
- 2015-02-08★★★★★Edit ROBOTS.TXT from READING Panechewychewy1-shot
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
153
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
155
Prior 7-day baseline
89
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
268
Mean release-day peak (30d)
230
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-1.3%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.55
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
96%
5★ share in analyzed sample
9%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.95 → 4.95★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered