Yoast and All in One SEO store a GPTBot switch their free code never reads

A check of five free WordPress SEO plugins found that Yoast SEO (10M sites) and All in One SEO (2M) store GPTBot and CCBot blocking settings that their free builds never read — the toggle only works in paid tiers. Rank Math and SEOPress contain no AI crawler names at all, and blocking GPTBot takes just two lines in robots.txt without any plugin.

• Yoast SEO stores three crawler-blocking options its free code never reads
• All in One SEO Lite declares an unwantedBots group but never writes robots.txt rules
• Rank Math and SEOPress free builds contain no AI crawler names
• Blocking GPTBot takes two robots.txt lines with no plugin