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Forums / website scraped website scraped msimms2014 · Member · Jan 27, 2026 at 9:54 pm Copy link Add topic to favorites My website is being scraped. How do I prevent this? The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users) staartmees · Member · Jan 28, 2026 at 7:29 am Copy link we don’t have a way to prevent such bots from crawling/scraping content from WordPress.com sites. You can use plugins or a robots.txt to ask search engines not to crawl or scrape your site, but that’s only a request not an obligation. The best solution to prevent crawling and scraping is by setting your site to private. msimms2014 · Member · Jan 28, 2026 at 7:55 am Copy link Thanks for the response. Log in or create an account to reply Log in Sign Up

msimms2014 · Member · Jan 27, 2026 at 9:54 pm
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My website is being scraped. How do I prevent this?

The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
staartmees · Member · Jan 28, 2026 at 7:29 am
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we don’t have a way to prevent such bots from crawling/scraping content from WordPress.com sites. You can use plugins or a robots.txt to ask search engines not to crawl or scrape your site, but that’s only a request not an obligation.

The best solution to prevent crawling and scraping is by setting your site to private.
msimms2014 · Member · Jan 28, 2026 at 7:55 am
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