paypal_ipn directory

Hi Karen,

Sorry for the delay, I have created an issue for this in our Git repo and I have assigned it to a developer. We’ll review this and get back to you ASAP!

HIi @karenfan73,

After careful testing, we conclude that It is not an issue with the plugin, though. It only comes when the search engine is indexing the site or crawling the site. Sometimes our site URL in the WordPress is like https://www.domain.com/custom_post_type and it is considering as the directory name. In our case, paypal_ipn is custom post type. and because of that crawlers may be showing them as a directory.

We can remove that by adding special code in the wordpress plugin file / functions.php page

function noindex_for_paypal_ipn()
{
    if ( is_singular( 'paypal_ipn' ) ) {
        echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">';
    }
}

add_action('wp_head', 'noindex_for_paypal_ipn');

Alternatively, you can make a robots.txt file at the base of your domain which tells them also not to index said page (crawlers are supposed to look for this file):
User-agent: * Disallow: /company-name

Please Let me know if you have any further questions/concerns on this.

Cheers.

@angelleyesupport, That code snippet you provided here is something we should probably just add to the plugin by default. Please get back to TJ within the BitBucket issue that was created for this and see if he thinks there’s any reason we shouldn’t do this in the plugin core code.