My stats show that a lot of bots are abusing the internal wordpress search functionality of my site:

www.yinlingjiaoyu
9
www.scckym
9
www.gzcq1688
9
www.mindswift
8
www.ytgso
8
www.annlin
8
www.lfysjy

Is there a way to prevent this from happening? I.e. if a search begins with www. then block it ?

My stats show that a lot of bots are abusing the internal wordpress search functionality of my site:

www.yinlingjiaoyu.cn
9
www.scckym.cn
9
www.gzcq1688.cn
9
www.mindswift.cn
8
www.ytgso.cn
8
www.annlin.cn
8
www.lfysjy.cn

Is there a way to prevent this from happening? I.e. if a search begins with www. then block it ?

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1 Answer 1

I suggest using a security plugin which will do everything for you. Like iThemes Security

Bans troublesome user agents, bots and other hosts

https://wordpress/plugins/better-wp-security/