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@wanderer – thanks! I will go and do that.

@colin – hahaha! Yes I am pretty prolific on Twitter as I’m sure you’ve noted ?? I see I follow you too so will retweet your blog as a thanks for your help ??

Hi Colin,

Ok so it looks like the plugin that I used to access and edit the robots.txt file doesn’t work!

So I have to find a way to discover and download the file via FTP and I can’t find it in the root folder.

Will check it out and look through the files properly later – thanks Colin, this was obviously a case of me being a bit dim and not checking the actual robots file link first – I’ll let you know if it does the trick (if I can find the file, that is).

Hi Colin – nopes, I’ve edited the robots.txt file and taken everything out. Even wp-admin I’ve unblocked so am pretty confused as to why these are showing up as they are deffo not in the robots file any longer – I’ve used a WP robots.txt file plugin to edit it however, as it doesn’t appear to be in my root folder when accessing through FTP.

The following, not on the robots.txt file (although I’ve had the warning msgs) but showing up in the fetch and render tool in Webmaster tools. All plugins up-to-date and there’s a list of around 15-20.

URL
https://www.markitwrite.com/wp-content/plugins/testimonials-widget/includes/libraries/bxslider-4/dist/jquery.bxslider.css?ver=4.2.3

Type Style Sheet Reason Blocked robots.txt Tester

Type is either stylesheet or JS

I’ve reduced the disallows to nothing and when using the fetch and render tool, get a lovely long list of plugin related CSS and JS files that Google has an issue with – how are we supposed to overcome these?