### 28/8/25 WP Hosting - added to reduce bots over-consuming resources
 
# Allow Google, Bing
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow:
Crawl-delay: 10

# Block known spammy / malicious bots
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

# Catch-all: slow down all other bots (crawl-delay)
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /private/