Some crawler bots follow every “add to cart” and “remove” link on a store, thousands of times a day. Each visit makes your site build a fresh page, which can slow the store down or even take it offline.
What we changed
- Bots are stopped at the door - known crawlers asking for cart and checkout links are turned away before they reach WordPress
- Shoppers aren’t affected - real visitors add to cart and check out exactly as before
- Search engines still see your store - product and category pages stay open to search engines, so your listings are not affected
No action needed on your end.