The Blackhole Pro plugin is a powerful tool for WordPress security. It automatically detects and traps bad bots in a virtual blackhole, where they are blocked from accessing your site. Bad bots are harmful to your site because they can consume your server resources, spam your comments, scrape your content, and damage your reputation. With Blackhole Pro, you can protect your site from these malicious bots and improve your site performance and security.
Some of the features of Blackhole Pro are:
- It works silently and effectively behind the scenes, without affecting your site visitors or good bots.
- It allows you to customize the warning and blocked messages, the blackhole trigger link, the email alerts, and the HTTP status codes for bad bots.
- It provides a bad bot log where you can view the details of each blocked bot, such as IP address, user agent, request, and geo location.
- It lets you whitelist good bots based on user agent or IP address, and blacklist bots based on user agent.
- It includes over 50 presets that you can use to get started quickly, or you can create your own settings for different scenarios.