Algorithus

This plugin allows you to easily control whether search engines are disallowed from accessing the root directory of your WordPress site by modifying the robots.txt file. You can enable or disable this functionality from the “Reading” settings page.

AWP Disallow Root Control

Disallow access to the root directory via robots.txt with an option to enable or disable.

Denis Bisteinov

Have you encountered an obstacle while creating and editing robots.txt file on your website?
Bisteinoff SEO Robots.txt is an easy-to-use plugin that helps you generate and configure a correct robots.txt file, which is essential for search engine optimization (SEO). This file defines crawling rules for search engine bots such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Yandex, and others.
The plugin works perfectly both if the file robots.txt has never been created or if it already exists. Once installed the plugin makes an optimized robots.txt file that includes special rules common for WordPress websites. After that you can proceed further customization specific for your own website if needed.
If the plugin detects one or several Sitemap XML files it will include them into robots.txt file.
No FTP access, manual coding or file editing is required that makes managing settings easy and convenient!
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatic generation of optimized robots.txt with WordPress-specific rules</li>
<li>Special rules for Google and Yandex search engines</li>
<li>Custom rules support for any search engine bot</li>
<li>Automatic sitemap detection and inclusion</li>
<li>WooCommerce compatibility with specific rules</li>
<li>Multisite support</li>
<li>Easy-to-use admin interface</li>
<li>Modern PHP architecture with namespaces for conflict-free operation</li>
</ul>

Bisteinoff SEO Robots.txt

An easy-to-use plugin that generates and configures a proper robots.txt file, essential for effective search engine optimization (SEO).

AWP Disallow Root Control vs Bisteinoff SEO Robots.txt