Title: WP Robots Txt Author: George Pattichis Published: 5 di Març dal 2012 Last modified: 29 di Jugn dal 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-robots-txt/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=2801635) ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-robots-txt/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3015903) # WP Robots Txt By [George Pattichis](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pattihis/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-robots-txt.1.3.5.zip) * [Details](https://fur.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/#description) * [Reviews](https://fur.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/#reviews) * [Installation](https://fur.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/#installation) * [Development](https://fur.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-robots-txt/) ## 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](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/#developers) ## Screenshots * [[ * A view of the admin option ## 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. ## FAQ ### 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](https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt) is a general guide by Google and [here](https://wordpress.org/support/article/search-engine-optimization/) is the WordPress SEO documentation. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/bbd6a06ab2f3bea3609a2c9bfe8aa668ad1fef7fd6bc789335fadec4015674e0? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works perfectly and effective support!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-perfectly-and-effective-support/)󠁿 [olistic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/olistic/) 27 di Lui dal 2025 The plugin perfectly works. Support is effective and quick! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4ee66d847ff6a09097deb8e6b8df2dda99a17af3d71cb52b412c09834b6604f7? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Doesn’t work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-3215/)󠁿 [andrewpeterson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewpeterson/) 21 di Avrîl dal 2025 2 replies I followed their instructions and it didn’t update the robots.txt file. It would be a great plugin if it worked! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/292d78009f29c33b35c9ec4ed1a42ab4ee17264a95e0114270bf0d2b75a683e4? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Easy robots.txt edit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easy-robots-txt-edit/)󠁿 [George Kpax](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gkpax/) 7 di Zenâr dal 2025 Don’t know what WordPress does with robots.txt file and uploading manually to my server does not work. This plug-in fixed it quickly. Highly Recommend! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6a267a49371a7252d536603a68d302bcd8be0c7f41bda6715516f5c22fdb66be? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Simple and works!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-and-works-225/)󠁿 [xeniajfp](https://profiles.wordpress.org/xeniajfp/) 16 di Zenâr dal 2024 Very simple to use and does what it says.. thanks a lot!! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/237231b71b2de24275bcdc30a98a6125caf6dcd71f6f1a5c574ddfe20f17cab9? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Ottimo](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ottimo-476/)󠁿 [Gregorio](https://profiles.wordpress.org/guidetutorial/) 21 di Otubar dal 2022 Ottimo ti basta attivar il plugin ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2ce0af5d097bbeb69ae8a41446204d16b58fff3d42adcc31b22d7e81a6a0c7d? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[IT just started blocking google](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-just-started-blocking-google/)󠁿 [seamonster124](https://profiles.wordpress.org/seamonster124/) 15 di Zenâr dal 2019 Took me about a week to notice this. Website traffic down 600%. Thanks! [ Read all 21 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-robots-txt/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “WP Robots Txt” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ George Pattichis ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pattihis/) “WP Robots Txt” has been translated into 7 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-robots-txt/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “WP Robots Txt” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-robots-txt) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-robots-txt/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-robots-txt/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-robots-txt/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-robots-txt/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## 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 ## Meta * Version **1.3.5** * Last updated **10 mês ago** * Active installations **50.000+** * WordPress version ** 5.3.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.8.5** * PHP version ** 7.0 or higher ** * Languages * [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/), [English (Australia)](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/), [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/), [English (New Zealand)](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/), [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/), [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/), and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-robots-txt) * Tags * [robots](https://fur.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/robots/)[robots.txt](https://fur.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/robots-txt/) [seo](https://fur.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/) * [Advanced View](https://fur.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-robots-txt/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 20 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-robots-txt/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 1 4-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-robots-txt/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-robots-txt/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-robots-txt/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-robots-txt/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-robots-txt/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-robots-txt/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ George Pattichis ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pattihis/) ## Support Got something to say? 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