What is MainWP?
MainWP is a self-hosted WordPress management plugin that allows users to manage multiple WordPress sites from a centralized dashboard. This bot visits websites where the MainWP Child plugin is installed to perform centralized management tasks such as updates, backups, monitoring, and other site maintenance activities. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | MainWP |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | No |
| Insights Last Updated | July 31, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
MainWP's traffic is as regular as a cron job, because it usually is one. Uptime monitors hit the same endpoint every few minutes, while performance and audit tools run deeper scans on demand. Expect narrow, repetitive access to specific pages rather than crawling.
MainWP's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MainWP/6.1.4; +http://mainwp.com) |
How To Block MainWP With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to request that MainWP not access your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to request the same of all developer helpers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: MainWP # https://knownagents.com/agents/mainwp
Disallow: /Global Insights for MainWP
As of July 31, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
0% of top websites block MainWP in their robots.txt files.
Overall Developer Helper Traffic
0.3% of all web traffic came from developer helpers.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by MainWP.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block MainWP?
Only if nobody you work with uses it. MainWP is the kind of tool a team points at its own site for uptime checks, performance tests, and audits. If someone on your team relies on it, blocking it silently breaks their monitoring. Almost none of the top websites we track have robots.txt rules for MainWP right now.
Does MainWP Follow Robots.txt Rules?
No. MainWP is not expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule only states your preference. Enforce the block with firewall or server rules, then confirm in Agent Analytics that its requests actually stop.
Does MainWP Access Private Content?
Only if its owner sets that up. Monitoring tools check whatever they are configured to check, which can include staging sites and private health endpoints when a team grants access. Uninvited, MainWP sees only public pages.
Why Is MainWP Visiting My Website?
Someone pointed MainWP at your site, most likely your own team. Uptime monitors, performance testers, and audit tools only visit the sites they are configured to watch.
How Can I Tell if MainWP Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks MainWP visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "MainWP". Look for regular checks of the same pages or endpoints, often minutes apart. Keep in mind that MainWP doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.