Feature request

On my second part of the Question, I think I should be asking about attributes as well as variations.

An example, I have an attribute on my e-commerce store called ‘Size’ and then various variations such as Large Xl etc.

If I type www. solosails. com/size/large I get a fairly useless list of items that use the Large attribute and it is these that I would like to add noindex,follow to, or specifically anything that has an attribute assigned.

Hope that makes sense!?

Thanks, Andrew

Hi Andrew,

It’s not possible to noindex a sitemap; you could add it to robots.txt but then that would negate the purpost of having a sitemap in the first place.

I’ll test against WooCommerce and see if I can reproduce your second issue; it’s also possible to customize what gets noindex meta further by using the aioseop_robots_meta hook.

Hi Peter,

Thank you for your response.

I wondered what the loop type effect of adding a noindex to Sitemap might cause.

Very surprising Google index them, would have thought it a very obvious thing not to index, but there you go!

RE Variations/Attributes, If you can reproduce this and have a soloution that would be great.

What is the meta hook? A plugin?

Many thanks, Andrew

Hi Andrew,

The hook is actually what the WordPress Plugin API uses to keep track of when it runs custom blocks of code from plugins; in short, after I look into this, if I can figure out what you want to do with tags in WooCommerce, I’ll probably end up giving you a block of code that runs on a hook that solves all your problems. ??

Sounds Ideal! Thanks.

I use a hook modifier for some of my Themes functions, to pull in titles and descriptions etc in Categories etc, but wondered if there was a specific AIOSEOP Hook plugin.

PS, its not the product tags or categories I have an issue with, I have dealt with that already using…

/**
 * Adds a noindex, nofollow meta tag to product category pages.
 */
add_action( 'wp_head', 'mycode_add_noindex_to_product_category_pages' );
function mycode_add_noindex_to_product_category_pages() {
	if ( is_product_category() ) {
		echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">';
	}
}

Thanks, Andrew

Hi Andrew,

I’ve looked into this, and the answer is, that while this is not supported yet, it should be soon. This depends on being able to manage content by custom taxonomies, which is a feature that is currently in the Pro version of the plugin, and should make it into the next major release of the Free version of the plugin. In the meantime, here’s that bit of code, add this to a plugin or to your functions.php in your theme:

add_filter( 'aioseop_robots_meta', 'solosails_noindex_size_taxonomy' );
function solosails_noindex_size_taxonomy( $robots ) {
    if ( is_tax( 'pa_size' ) ) $robots = 'noindex,follow';
    return $robots;
}

Hi Peter, as always, you guys blow me away with your level of support.

Thank you.

Without being rude, is there anyway to target all taxonomies/attributes rather than individual ones?

Thanks again, Andrew

Hi Andrew,

You can target all custom taxonomy archive pages by using is_tax() instead of is_tax( ‘pa_size’ ) – you can target a specific list by using is_tax() with an Array, like so: is_tax( Array( ‘pa_size’, ‘pa_width’, ‘pa_height’ ) )

Fantastic Peter, thank you, beyond the call of duty.

Can I ask what the variations option in AIOSEOP noindex settings affects?

Thanks, Andrew

OK, I’m really pushing my luck now,,,

I have just taken my bit of code that I pasted before your reply and deleted it and stuck the relevant bit into your code like so …

// Add noindex to product attributes/variations
add_filter( 'aioseop_robots_meta', 'solosails_noindex_size_taxonomy' );
function solosails_noindex_size_taxonomy( $robots ) {
    if ( is_tax( 'pa_size' ) OR is_product_category() ) $robots = 'noindex,follow';
    return $robots;
}

Does that look right to you?

Thanks, Andrew

Hi Andrew,

I gather that Variations is referring to a post type named Variations on your site. I think that code will work, although in practice I never use OR in PHP; in this case it should be fine, though.

Hi Peter,

Thanks very very much.

I guess the variations setting is to do with woocommerce, but it appears not to do anything, which is why I was asking about it here.

The code seems to be working with no issues, so hopefully it should do the trick for now until the next update.

Thanks again, Andrew.

Ah, I am learning slowly …

In PHP use || instead of OR

Thanks, Andrew

OR is also fine in this case; I use || out of habit, the two have different operator precedences, which mainly relates back to how paranoid you end up getting with use of parentheses in your logic. ??

I’ll take your word for it on that matter!

Cheers.