Andrew Hoyer

<p>This plugin adds a warning to the WordPress admin bar when search engine visibility is off.</p>
<p>That’s all it does! No options, settings, or complications, just a small but obvious warning to ensure you never launch a site with the “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” box checked.</p>
<h3>How to use</h3>
<p>Install the plugin from the WordPress plugin repository and activate the plugin. There are no settings or options.</p>
<h3>Developers</h3>
<p>If you’re interested in furthering the development of the SEO Warning plugin, please find the project on GitHub:</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/andrewhoyer/wp-seo-warning/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/andrewhoyer/wp-seo-warning/</a></p>
<h3>License</h3>
<pre><code>Copyright (C) 2025 Andrew Hoyer

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
</code></pre>


SEO Warning


I wonder nobody thought of this before. The moment I knew about this plugin, I added it to my couple of sites. The author of the plugin is simply genius.


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This plugin adds a warning to the WordPress admin bar when search engine visibility is off.

Storm Rockwell

<p>Allows you to discourage search engines by url to prevent you from forgetting to turn off the “Search Engine Visibility” setting when going between development and live instances.</p>
<p><strong>Features</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>A field to enter in as many domains as needed</li>
<li>An icon in the admin bar to display if the current page is indexable for convenience and debugging</li>
<li>A checkbox to hide the icon in the admin bar</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Usage</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Go to Settings > Reading</li>
<li>Make sure “Search Engine Visibility” is unchecked</li>
<li>Add your development environment URL(s) or any url you want to be not indexable. You can do partial urls such as “staging.” to cover all staging. subdomains.</li>
<li>Hover the eye icon in the admin bar to make sure it is set up correctly.</li>
</ol>
<p>For Example: if my live site was google.com and my development site was dev.google.com I would enter dev.google.com in the field.</p>


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