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Total downloads: 528,353
Active installs: 40,000
Total reviews: 21
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 3
Last updated: 6/29/2025 (185 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 3/5/2012 (13 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.3.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 7.0

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 185 days ago • 21 reviews

42/100

Is WP Robots Txt abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 185 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.3.0
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 7.0

Ratings

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Developers

George Pattichis (Owner)8chrisguitarguy (Owner)10chrisguitarguy1

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Description

WordPress, by default, includes a simple robots.txt file that’s dynamically generated from within the WP application. This is great, but how do you easily change the content?

Enter WP Robots Txt, a plugin that adds an additional field to the “Reading” admin page where you can do just that. No manual coding or file editing required!

Simply visit https://your-site.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php and you can control the contents of your https://your-site.com/robots.txt

Changelog

Installation

  1. Download the plugin
  2. Unzip it
  3. Upload the unzipped folder to wp-content/plugins directory
  4. Activate and enjoy!

Or you can simply install it through the admin area plugin installer.

Frequently Asked Questions

I totally screwed up my `robots.txt` file. How can I restore the default version?

Delete all the content from the Robots.txt Content field and save the privacy options.

Could I accidently block all search bots with this?

Yes. Be careful! That said, robots.txt files are suggestions. They don’t really block bots as much as they suggest that bots don’t crawl portions of a site. That’s why the options on the Privacy Settings page say “Ask search engines not to index this site.”

Where can I learn more about `robots.txt` files?

Here is a general guide by Google and here is the WordPress SEO documentation.

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Screenshots

  1. A view of the admin option

    A view of the admin option

Changelog

1.3.5

  • Compatibility with WordPress 6.8

1.3.4

  • Compatibility with WordPress 6.7

1.3.3

  • Add Line Break to allow appending more rules. Thanks @flberger

1.3.2

  • Add translation template

1.3.1

  • Compatibility with WordPress 6.4
  • WP Coding Standards compliant

1.3

  • Ensure Compatibility with WP v6.3
  • Increase PHP minimum required version

1.2

  • Update the default robots.txt content
  • Include sitemap reference
  • Resolve code warnings/errors
  • WP Coding Standards compliant
  • Ensure Compatibility with WP v6

1.1

  • Moved the settings field “officially” to the reading page
  • General code clean up

1.0

  • Initial version
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