Steve North

<p>This WordPress plugin ensures that search engine indexing is automatically turned OFF if the site’s URL doesn’t match the provided live site URL. It’s especially useful for development and staging environments, where you might not want content to be indexed by search engines.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong><br />
– Automatically turns off search engine indexing for non-live sites.<br />
– Provides an admin settings page to specify the live site URL.<br />
– Displays an admin notice if indexing has been turned off due to URL mismatch.<br />
– Encodes the live site URL to prevent inadvertent changes when using migration tools.<br />
– Admin notice prompts for setting the live site URL if it hasn’t been configured yet.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>After activating the plugin, go to the admin dashboard.</li>
<li>Navigate to <code>Settings</code> -> <code>Prevent Indexing</code>.</li>
<li>Enter your live site URL in the provided input field and save.</li>
<li>If the current site’s URL doesn’t match the provided live site URL, search engine indexing will be turned off, and an admin notice will inform you of the same.</li>
</ol>
<h3>License</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GPLv2 or later</a></p>


Prevent Indexing on Non-Live Sites

Prevent your WordPress website from being indexed by search engines when it's not on the live site.

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.


Very Useful for your site

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

Prevent Indexing on Non-Live Sites vs SEO Warning