Jeff Starr

<p>Does one thing: disables WP robots meta tag.</p>
<p>Activate this plugin to disable the robots meta tag (added in WP version 5.7).</p>
<p><strong>Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Lightweight – only one line of code.</li>
<li>Simple to use – activate and done.</li>
<li>No settings to worry about.</li>
<li>Easy peasy.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Why is this useful?</strong></p>
<p>Because most existing WordPress sites (i.e., a LOT of sites) already have robots meta tags taken care of, either via plugin or theme enhancements. So when upgrading to WordPress 5.7, there may be conflicting or redundant meta tags, which may not be optimal for SEO. This simple plugin disables the new WP robots meta tag completely, so it will not interfere with existing meta robots configurations. Or maybe you are setting up a new site and don’t want WordPress to add any meta tags to your pages. Whatever the reason, this plugin will do the job with a click.</p>
<p><strong>More infos</strong></p>
<p>For more information about the new WP Robots functionality:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/19/robots-api-and-max-image-preview-directive-in-wordpress-5-7/" rel="nofollow ugc">New Robots API</a></li>
<li><a href="https://perishablepress.com/wordpress-disable-wp-robots/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Plugin: Disable WP Robots</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Privacy</strong></p>
<p>This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way.</p>
<p>Disable WP Robots is developed and maintained by <a href="https://x.com/perishable" rel="nofollow ugc">Jeff Starr</a>, 15-year <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress developer</a> and <a href="https://books.perishablepress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">book author</a>.</p>


Disable WP Robots

Activate this plugin to disable the robots meta tag that was added in WP v5.7.

Papin Schipper

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<h4>What is a sitemap?</h4>
<p>A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages and posts your site, and the relationships between them. Search engines read this file to more intelligently crawl your site. A sitemap tells the search engine which pages you think are important in your site, and also provides valuable information about these pages: for example, when the page was last updated, how often the page is changed, and any alternate language versions of a page.</p>
<h4>Plugin Features</h4>
<p>Easily create a sitemap which is then updated every hour, or can be updated manually at any time via the WordPress dashboard. You can select single pages/posts or entire posttypes that you want to exclude from the sitemap. It will generate both an XML sitemap and an HTML sitemap that you can display on your site via the shortcode or gutenberg block.</p>
<h4>We’ll keep search engines up-to-date for you</h4>
<p>If there are changes being made to your sitemap we’ll notify search engines for you. You don’t have to submit them manual anymore.</p>
<h4>What do we add to the sitemap?</h4>
<p>The following URLs are added to the sitemap (with an option to hide them, ofcourse):</p>
<ul>
<li>Pages</li>
<li>Posts</li>
<li>Post images</li>
<li>Post categories</li>
<li>Post tags</li>
<li>Custom post types</li>
<li>Custom taxonomies</li>
<li>Additional pages: Add URLs yourself</li>
</ul>
<h4>Robots editor</h4>
<p>While a sitemap allows search engines to scan pages faster, a robots.txt file disallows search engines from scanning certain pages. This plugin also comes with a handy robots editor to give you full control over your search engine visibility.</p>
<h4>Multilingual</h4>
<p>Companion Sitemap Generator also supports <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en" rel="nofollow ugc">multilingual sitemaps</a>. Right now this is only supported when using the Polylang plugin but more plugins will be added upon request.</p>
<h4>Multisite</h4>
<p>This plugin has support for multisite. Each site will get its own sitemap.</p>


Companion Sitemap Generator – HTML & XML

Easy to use XML and HTML sitemap generator + Robots editor

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