Ariana

<p>This is a very simple plugin that adds a “robots” meta tag to the head of your site with “noindex” in it.</p>
<p>The effect of the noindex robots meta tag is that search engines will not index your pages and posts at all.<br />
This is a better solution then the wordpress default settings option, which tells search engines to not crawl the URLs in the robots.txt. Because Google (and other search engines) sometimes still index URLs they haven’t crawled, for which they determine relevancy based on anchor text of links which lead to the specific URL.</p>


Simple Noindex

Jeff Starr

<blockquote>
<p>✨ Add meta tags to your site<br />
  ✨ Blazing fast performance<br />
  ✨ Uses only 60KB of code!</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Head Meta Data (HMD) improves the definition and semantic quality of your website by adding <code><meta></code> tags to the <code><head></code> section of your web pages. Super lightweight, fast, and user-friendly.</p>
<h3>🤖 Default Meta Tags</h3>
<p>Customize the perfect set of meta tags for your site. For example:</p>
<pre><code><head>

    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="abstract" content="Obsessive Web Development">
    <meta name="author" content="Jeff Starr (aka Perishable)">
    <meta name="classification" content="Website Development">
    <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Perishable Press">
    <meta name="description" content="Web Development Tutorials">
    <meta name="designer" content="Jeff Starr @ Monzilla Media">
    <meta name="distribution" content="Global">
    <meta name="keywords" content="Web, WordPress, Tutorials">
    <meta name="language" content="en">
    <meta name="publisher" content="Perishable Press">
    <meta name="rating" content="General">
    <meta name="resource-type" content="Document">
    <meta name="revisit-after" content="3">
    <meta name="subject" content="Web Dev + WordPress + Security">
    <meta name="template" content="shapeSpace WordPress Theme">
    <meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

    

</head>
</code></pre>
<h3>🤖 Dynamic Meta Tags</h3>
<p>Use shortcodes to dynamically output SEO meta tags:</p>
<pre><code><title>[hmd_post_title] | My Awesome Website</title>
<meta name="description" content="[hmd_post_excerpt]">
</code></pre>
<p>This outputs dynamic titles and descriptions, useful for SEO. You also can add unique meta tags and markup on specific posts and pages. Check out the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/head-meta-data/#installation" rel="ugc">Installation tab</a> for more information.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>✨ Help bots understand your content better</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>🤖 Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Simple and easy to use</li>
<li>Clean, standards-based code</li>
<li>Customize all <code><meta></code> tags</li>
<li>Add your own custom <code><meta></code> tags</li>
<li>Add custom meta tags on any post or page</li>
<li>Supports X (Twitter) Cards and Facebook Open Graph tags</li>
<li>Supports <code><meta></code>, <code><link></code>, <code><base></code>, <code><title></code>, and <code><style></code></li>
<li>Automatically adds tags to the <code><head></code> section of all pages</li>
<li>Check out a Live Preview of your meta tags and custom tags</li>
<li>Auto-populates tags using your site’s information</li>
<li>Use shortcodes to include dynamic information</li>
<li>Easily disable any unwanted tags</li>
<li>Lightweight, fast, and secure</li>
</ul>
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<p>✨ Check out <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/head-meta-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Head Meta Pro</a> to define tags for each page view</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>🤖 Shortcodes</h3>
<p>Shortcodes enable you to include dynamic bits of information in your meta tags. Head Meta Data provides the following shortcodes:</p>
<pre><code>[hmd_post_excerpt]  Outputs post excerpt
[hmd_post_date]     Outputs post date
[hmd_post_author]   Outputs post author
[hmd_post_title]    Outputs post title
[hmd_post_cats]     Outputs post categories
[hmd_post_tags]     Outputs post tags
[hmd_site_tagline]  Outputs site tagline
[hmd_site_title]    Outputs site title
[hmd_year]          Outputs current year
[hmd_tab]           Outputs tab space to tag markup
</code></pre>
<p>So you can display your own set of custom meta tags exactly as desired. <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/head-meta-data/#installation" rel="ugc">Learn more »</a></p>
<h3>🤖 Pro Features</h3>
<p>The <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/head-meta-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro version</a> can do everything the free version can do, PLUS:</p>
<ul>
<li>Define meta tags for Custom Post Types</li>
<li>Define meta tags for each type of page-view (e.g., home, posts, pages, archive, search)</li>
<li>Define tags for Facebook (Open Graph)</li>
<li>Define tags for X (Twitter)</li>
<li>Define Facebook and X tags for each type of page view</li>
<li>40+ advanced <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/head-meta-pro-shortcut-variables/" rel="nofollow ugc">shortcut variables</a> like <code>%POST_AUTHOR%</code> and <code>%ARCHIVE_TYPE%</code></li>
<li>Dedicated “Meta Tags” meta box for posts and pages</li>
<li>Add custom meta tags to any post or page-view</li>
<li>Add custom script and style to any post or page-view</li>
<li>Meta Tags box integrates with SEO plugins</li>
<li>Additional meta tags beyond the free version</li>
<li>Dedicated setting for <code>image_src</code> link tag</li>
<li>Premium support for pro purchases</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>✨ Level up your meta tags with <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/head-meta-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Head Meta Pro »</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>🤖 Privacy</h3>
<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>Head Meta Data 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>
<h3>🤖 Support Development</h3>
<p>I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can <a href="https://monzillamedia.com/donate.html" rel="nofollow ugc">make a donation</a> or purchase one of my books:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wp-tao.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">The Tao of WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digwp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Digging into WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://htaccessbook.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">.htaccess made easy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wp-tao.com/wordpress-themes-book/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Themes In Depth</a></li>
<li><a href="https://books.perishablepress.com/downloads/wizards-collection-sql-recipes-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress</a></li>
</ul>
<p>And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/bbq-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">BBQ Pro</a> – Blazing fast WordPress firewall</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/blackhole-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Blackhole Pro</a> – Automatically block bad bots</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/banhammer-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Banhammer Pro</a> – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/ga-google-analytics-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">GA Google Analytics Pro</a> – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/head-meta-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Head Meta Pro</a> – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/simple-ajax-chat-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Ajax Chat Pro</a> – Unlimited chat rooms</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/usp-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">USP Pro</a> – Unlimited front-end forms</li>
</ul>
<p>Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thanks! 🙂</p>

Head Meta Data

Adds a custom set of <meta> tags to the <head> section of all posts & pages.

Simple Noindex vs Head Meta Data