# Block aggressive, high-traffic AI scrapers and unauthorized bots
User-agent: ByteSpider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: Omegabot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

# Standard rules for major search engine crawlers (Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo)
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: Slurp
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Throttle well-behaved generic crawlers
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Sitemap declaration
Sitemap: https://frontporchne.com/sitemap_index.xml