rickfish182

Hi Angie – I did. Kind of.

1. Based on the support moderator’s suggestion, I disabled and deleted the Google XML sitemap plug in.

2. I then created a manual robots.txt file and set it to allow everything.

3. Then I waited a few days for Google to re-index the site. It it took 3 or 4 days, but it happened. All the pages and posts are now indexed.

Next steps:

Download and re-install the Google XML sitemap plugin.

**I have not had time to do this yet**

Hope this helps ! ??

I appreciate the help! I’ll give that a shot. Thanks again…

Rick

@ellp – just tried your solution with my functions.php file and got this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_VARIABLE or '$' in /home3/xtractor/public_html/howdoistoppanicattacks/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1788

Please help?

Thanks guys…

Hello all – I’m having this issue as well. Similar to the original poster, I had my site set to “private” while I loaded up all the content and modified the theme. I am using the XML sitemap plugin.

A few days ago, I set my site to “public” in the privacy settings through wordpress so the site could get indexed properly. However, google still sees the robots.txt file as set to disallow. Here’s what it looks like:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://www.howdoistoppanicattacks.com/sitemap.xml.gz

I saw some solutions posted by editing the functions.php file, but wasn’t sure this solution would work for me?

Thanks all…

Great, thanks for the link!