wp.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, wp.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://wordpress.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256 e0d0da584877febb… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 b80832449d777197…

# If you are regularly crawling WordPress.com sites, please use our firehose to receive real-time push updates instead.
# Please see https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/firehose/ for more details.

Sitemap: https://wordpress.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://wordpress.com/news-sitemap.xml

Sitemap: https://wordpress.com/go/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://wordpress.com/blog/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://wordpress.com/support/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /typo/?subdomain=
Disallow: /read/
Disallow: /*/read/
Allow: /forums/topic-tag/reader/
Allow: /*/forums/topic-tag/reader/
Allow: /support/reader/
Allow: /*/support/reader/
Disallow: /reader/
Disallow: /*/reader/
Allow: /log-in/
Allow: /log-in$
Disallow: /log-in?
Disallow: /abuse/?*
Disallow: /abuse?*
Disallow: /plugins/?s=
Disallow: /*/plugins/?s=
Disallow: /*?aff=
Disallow: /*&aff=
Disallow: /*?affiliate=
Disallow: /*&affiliate=
Disallow: /*?cid=
Disallow: /*&cid=
Disallow: /*?irclickid=
Disallow: /*&irclickid=
Disallow: /*/?like_comment=
Disallow: /*?retry=
Disallow: /*?sid=
Disallow: /*?action=
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-signup.php
Disallow: /press-this.php
Disallow: /remote-login.php
Disallow: /activate/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /mshots/v1/
Disallow: /next/
Disallow: /public.api/

# This file was generated on Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:05:07 +0000

robots.txt versions

Timeline of changes

Reconstructed history (Common Crawl)

From Common Crawl's robots.txt captures: what CCBot was served, one crawl per quarter. A separate series from the daily observations above; a 403 here means Common Crawl was refused, not this ledger.

Evidence

Every daily observation of wp.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-27: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973493)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/wp.com