wpbot
wpbot is blocked by 64 sites in the October 2026 survey, or 1.0% of readable files. The community reference lists its operator as QuantumCloud.
Who runs wpbot?
| Fact | wpbot reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “QuantumCloud” |
| Purpose | “Live chat support and lead generation.” |
| Does wpbot obey robots.txt? | “Unclear at this time; opt out provided via Google Form” |
| Frequency | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for wpbot | No |
These facts quote the stored community ai.robots.txt reference.
“wpbot is a used to support the functionality of the AI Chatbot for WordPress plugin. It supports the use of customer models, data collection and customer support.”
This entry’s stated use is quoted above. An owner may want search visitors and answers that link back to a page while keeping its text out of model-training datasets.
How many sites block it?
The 64 files blocking the whole site account for 1.0% of 6,171 readable robots.txt files. We found its name in 63 User-agent lists, a 1.0% share. Without a whole-site Disallow: / block, 6,107 files remain.
From the highest 1,000 ranks, 552 files could be read. Its naming count is 19, or 3.4%, and the block count is 19. Blocking is more common among the leading sites, at 3.4%. Compare 45 blocks among the 5,619 readable files below those ranks, or 0.8%.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wpbot, all ranks | 63 | 1.0% | 64 | 1.0% |
| wpbot, top 1,000 | 19 | 3.4% | 19 | 3.4% |
| wpbot, remaining ranks | 44 | 0.8% | 45 | 0.8% |
Blocking here counts whole-site bans recorded for it by name. A general ban for all crawlers is excluded. Of 64 blocks, 1 does not also appear in our count of files naming it. All 63 files naming it also record a whole-site block. The remaining 6,108 files do not name it. Naming counts ignore capitalization and repeated mentions.
How to block or allow it
Use your site’s root file, robots.txt. Specific groups for wpbot take precedence over User-agent: *, according to the robots.txt standard.
Block the whole site
User-agent: wpbot
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: wpbot
Allow: /It's the 97th most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
How we counted
For wpbot, on 19 October 2026, we requested robots.txt from Tranco’s top 10,000 sites. Files had an 8-second timeout and a 262,144-byte limit. Only available files we could read enter the percentages. Collection and repeat readings used scripts/robots_2026_08_06.py (robots.py at app commit 07104ff). See the full survey method.
Common questions
Can a file name it and still allow it?
Here, all 63 files that name it also contain a whole-site ban.
How do the shares compare by rank?
For naming rules, 3.4% of the leading sample mentions it, compared with 1.0% overall. Whole-site blocking is 3.4% at leading ranks and 1.0% across the full sample.
What other entry is close in the index?
For comparison, YandexAdditional has 63 files naming it and 164 blocks, or 2.7%. Our counts for this entry are 63 files with the name and 64 blocking the whole site, or 1.0%.