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CeeWP Robots.txt Manager is a lightweight and user-friendly plugin that allows you to easily manage your WordPress site’s virtual robots.txt file. Add custom rules without creating physical files, with full control over search engine access to your content.
Why Choose Robots.txt Manager?
<ul>
<li>No File Management: Works with WordPress’s built-in virtual robots.txt system</li>
<li>Two Operating Modes: Choose between appending to or replacing default rules</li>
<li>User-Friendly Interface: Clean admin panel with helpful examples</li>
<li>WordPress Standards: Follows all WordPress coding and security standards</li>
<li>Automatic Cleanup: Removes all data when uninstalled</li>
</ul>
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Simple interface to add custom robots.txt rules</li>
<li>Replace Mode: Option to completely replace WordPress default robots.txt with custom rules</li>
<li>Append Mode: Add custom rules to existing WordPress robots.txt (default behavior)</li>
<li>Dynamic Textarea: Automatically adjusts height based on content</li>
<li>Live Preview: Direct link to view your robots.txt file</li>
<li>Smart Warnings: Alerts when search engines are discouraged</li>
<li>Privacy Respect: Honors WordPress privacy settings</li>
<li>Examples Included: Ready-to-use code snippets for common scenarios</li>
<li>Professional UI: Modern interface with WordPress dashicons</li>
</ul>
Perfect for:
<ul>
<li>SEO Professionals: Fine-tune search engine crawling behavior</li>
<li>Website Owners: Block access to private directories and files</li>
<li>Developers: Prevent indexing of development or staging content</li>
<li>E-commerce Sites: Control bot access to sensitive areas</li>
<li>Content Creators: Manage sitemap declarations and crawl rates</li>
</ul>
How It Works:
The plugin adds a new menu item under Settings > Robots.txt Manager where you can easily add your custom rules. Choose between two modes:
<ul>
<li>Append Mode (Default): Your custom rules are added to WordPress’s default robots.txt</li>
<li>Replace Mode: Your custom rules completely replace WordPress’s default robots.txt</li>
</ul>
The interface includes helpful examples, real-time textarea sizing, and a direct link to view your live robots.txt file.
<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data. All settings are stored locally in your WordPress database and are only used to generate your robots.txt file.
<h3>Credits</h3>
Developed with ❤️ by CeeWP – https://ceewp.com/
Special thanks to the WordPress community for continuous inspiration and feedback.

CeeWP Robots.txt Manager

Easily manage your WordPress site's virtual robots.txt file with custom rules. No physical file needed!

Marat Nepomnyashy

Overview:
At the time of this writing, the latest version of WordPress, version 4.7, 
 has functionality to discourage search engines from indexing the whole site, 
 but not functionality to discourage search engines from indexing only certain 
 specific pages and posts of the site.
Robots Meta Whiz is a WordPress plugin that allows site administrators to 
 deploy custom meta robots tags to discourage search engines from indexing, 
 following links from, caching, indexing images from, and / or have 
 additional custom restrictions on only for certain specifically-designated 
 pages and posts.
It is an easy way to discourage search engines from indexing only specific 
 pages / posts.
This only applies to search engine robots, and will not effect the site’s 
 local search functionality.
Technical summary:
Plugin works by hooking-in special logic into the action ‘wp_head’ to inject 
 the tag <code><meta name='robots' content='...'></code> with restriction directives for 
 the specified pages and posts.
Official project URLs:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/robotswhiz 
 https://github.com/maratbn/RobotsWhiz

Robots Meta Whiz

Easy way to discourage search engines from indexing only specific pages / posts with custom meta tags.

CeeWP Robots.txt Manager vs Robots Meta Whiz