How to control GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended on WordPress
Once a WordPress team starts naming bots explicitly, the governance problem becomes much easier to reason about. GPTBot is not the same thing as ClaudeBot, and neither is the same thing as Googlebot or every user-triggered fetch.
Why named control matters
Named control matters because different agents can correspond to different business concerns: answer-system visibility, training posture, archive behavior, or crawl hygiene.
What Better Robots.txt gives you
The plugin provides a more structured place to reason about named AI-related agents instead of forcing everything into one flat allow-or-block decision.
Where the boundary remains
Named rules still do not prove bot obedience, runtime identity, or legal enforceability. Those questions sit outside the public WordPress policy layer.
What Better Robots.txt is not
Better Robots.txt is not a WAF, not a signed-agent verification system, not a legal enforcement layer, and not a guarantee that every crawler will comply. It publishes a clearer WordPress policy surface and a safer workflow for the parts you can actually govern.