Fstyle Honeypot Bot Blocker

Stop malicious bots and scanners instantly using a smart honeypot trap.

Protect your website from unauthorized crawlers and malicious bots that ignore your site’s robots.txt directives. Fstyle Honeypot Bot Blocker provides a lightweight yet powerful security layer by automatically detecting and blocking intruders.

Once installed, it sets a hidden trap path in your robots.txt. If a bot attempts to access this forbidden area, its IP address is immediately captured and blocked from accessing your entire site.

Features

• Instant Honeypot Block: Automatically adds a trap path to your robots.txt.
• IP Management Dashboard: View detailed logs of blocked IP addresses and manage them easily.
• Smart Whitelist: Add trusted service IPs to prevent accidental lockouts.
• Ultra-Lightweight: Built for performance with minimal database impact.

1. Upload the fstyle-honeypot-bot-blocker folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Access settings via the “Fstyle Blocker” menu in your dashboard.

1. 

   The main dashboard showing blocked IP logs and whitelist settings.

1.2.0

• Security: the trap now matches only the URL path (a trap word in the query string no longer blocks the visitor).
• Blocks now expire after 7 days (filter: fstyle_honeypot_block_days).
• Verified Googlebot / Bingbot (reverse and forward DNS) are never blocked.
• Logged-in administrators are never blocked on the front end.

1.1.1

• Refreshed admin interface for better visibility.
• Added <code> tag wrapper for IP addresses.
• Integrated empty log state handler.
• Enhanced screenshot for Plugin Directory.

1.1

• Improved security: added SQL prepare statements and output escaping.
• Fixed “Short Description missing” warning for WordPress.org compliance.
• Updated readme metadata for WordPress 6.9 compatibility.

1.0

• Initial release.