Marios Alexandrou

<p>Virtual Robots.txt is an easy (i.e. automated) solution to creating and managing a robots.txt file for your site. Instead of mucking about with FTP, files, permissions ..etc, just upload and activate the plugin and you’re done.</p>
<p>By default, the Virtual Robots.txt plugin allows access to the parts of WordPress that good bots like Google need to access. Other parts are blocked.</p>
<p>If the plugin detects an existing XML sitemap file, a reference to it will be automatically added to your robots.txt file.</p>


Virtual Robots.txt

Awesome, a simple solution to a common issue (site content managers who want to hide certain pages from Google search results).

Just a little note: in my case, the existing Sitemap created by the plugin "Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator" by Arne Brachhold wasn't detected.

Efficient and unobstrusive

I like the fact that it's so clean. Thanks for building it!

Does the Job

Virtual Robots.txt automatically creates a robots.txt file for your site. Your robots.txt file can be easily edited from the plugin settings page.

apasionados

<p>This plugin adds lines to the virtual robots.txt file (that WordPress creates automagically if the file is not present physically on the server) to block the archive.org bots.</p>
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<p>Please be aware of what this plugin does exactly: If you activate the plugin it will add some lines to the robots.txt file to tell the <a href="https://archive.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Archive.org bots</a> <strong>not to crawl and index</strong> your page. This means that they won’t store a backup of your site and you won’t be able to browse the different versions of the website through time.</p>
<p>Please keep in mind that if you activate this plugin and your site is deleted from the archive.org index, you can’t undo this. If you remove the plugin and the block of the archive.org bot, they’ll start again crawling and indexing the website from that moment, but all the older information is lost. <strong>Be carefull and think if this is what you want to do!</strong>. If you mess it nobody will not be able to help you (neither we or archive.org).</p>
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<p><strong>Please only activate this plugin if you know what you’re doing</strong>.</p>
<h4>What can I do with this plugin?</h4>
<p>This plugin adds the necessary lines to the virtual robots.txt file that WordPress creates automagically to block the archive.org bots.</p>
<h4>What ideas is this plugin based on?</h4>
<p>None. We needed a fast solution to add these lines to the robots.txt file and this was the solution we coded.</p>
<h4>System requirements</h4>
<p>PHP version 5.5 or greater.</p>
<h4>Block archive.org bots robots.txt Plugin in your Language!</h4>
<p>The first release is avaliable in English and Spanish. In the “languages” folder we have included the necessary files to translate this plugin.</p>
<p>If you would like the plugin in your language and you’re good at translating, please use the <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/block-archive-org-robots-txt/" rel="nofollow ugc">native WordPress Translation</a> functionality.</p>
<p>New to Translating a plugin? First read through the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/tools/glotpress-translate-wordpress-org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Translator Handbook</a>, then select your locale at <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Translating WordPress</a> and finally go to the <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/block-archive-org-robots-txt/" rel="nofollow ugc">translation page for this plugin</a> to translate it.</p>
<h4>Further Reading</h4>
<p>You can access the description of the plugin in Spanish at: <a href="https://apasionados.es/blog/bloquear-el-bot-de-archive-org-a-traves-de-robots-txt-wordpress-plugin-7752/" rel="nofollow ugc">Block archive.org bots robots.txt en español</a>.</p>
<h3>Contact</h3>
<p>For further information please send us an <a href="https://apasionados.es/contacto/index.php?desde=wordpress-org-block-archive-org-robots-txt" rel="nofollow ugc">email</a>.</p>


Block Archive.org via WordPress robots.txt

Blocks the archive.org bots through the WordPress virtual robots.txt file.

Virtual Robots.txt vs Block Archive.org via WordPress robots.txt