not working when blog_public is enabled

  • Nice plugin.

    I’d like to mention a fault.

    When option blog_public is enabled (admin :: reading :: search engine visibility), the plugin will not handle the robots.txt rewrite rule.
    Is there a reason behind this behavior?

    According to this post
    https://stackoverflow.com/a/18316292
    and the comment section below, there could be circumstances where both robots meta tag and robots.txt file should be present to disable both crawling and indexing.

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  • Plugin Author Marios Alexandrou

    (@marios-alexandrou)

    The plugin doesn’t attempt to override WordPress settings or other plugins. Also, if there’s a physical robots.txt in the root folder, the plugin’s robots.txt settings won’t be used.

    Thread Starter Konstantinos Raktivan

    (@constracti)

    Thanks for the response.

    My issue is that if wordpress is set to echo the noindex robots meta tag (through admin :: reading :: search engine visibility), this plugin will not work. I would like to have both the meta tag and the robots.txt virtual file present.

    Plugin Author Marios Alexandrou

    (@marios-alexandrou)

    I understand your request, but there are 50,000+ other active users any number of which may be relying on the current behaviour. There may be an SEO-related plugin with a broader set of features that will allow you to accomplish your goals.

    Thread Starter Konstantinos Raktivan

    (@constracti)

    Ok. Maybe a switch could be included in the settings page allowing administrators to have both features available (virtual file and meta tags). With a default value “OFF”, so that current installations keep functioning as expected.

    Of course I could switch to another plugin or upload a (regular) robots file. I just wondered if it would be possible to satisfy my requirements with your light-weight plugin.

    In any case, thanks for your reply. You may also mark this topic as resolved.

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