# WordPress — crawler guidance (honor-system only).
# Malicious bots and scrapers often IGNORE robots.txt. For flood traffic,
# use nginx rate limiting / WAF / fail2ban — not this file alone.

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 2
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wpo-plugins-tables/
Disallow: /trackback/

# Aggressive crawlers / SEO bots (honor robots.txt; remove blocks if you rely on these tools)
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: serpstatbot
Disallow: /

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