WordPress Meta Robots 1.9ƒ

WordPress Meta Robots
This plugin will give you full control of the meta robots tag for each post or page. meta robots have a direct influence to the indexing behaviour of search engines. After activation you will find it as a WordPress typical meta box on the edit page in admin area.

From a dropdown menu you can choose the following options:

index, follow
index, nofollow
noindex, follow
noindex, nofollow

By creating an new post/page the default value is automatically set to index, follow without any user input. Categories, tags, and archiv are set to noindex, follow. Search results, 404 and others to noindex, nofollow.

Installation
There are several ways to install a plugin in WordPress. For newbies this way is highly recommended:

1. Navigate to ‘Add New’ under ‘Plugins’ menu in admin area
2. Upload or choose wp-meta-robots.zip from ‘Install Plugins’
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

For correct working make sure that your site visibility isn’t blocked. You can find this option under ‘Privacy’ in ‘Settings’ menu. Prevent to intall more than one plugin for the same task. Prevent double entries in the header and values which are in conflict to each other.

Download
WordPress Meta Robots 1.9ƒ (wordpress-meta-robots.1.9.zip)
(only for WordPress 3.0+)

Note: In the previous version (v1.7) was missing a line of code. The plugin was not shown on post edit pages. Please update now! Before installing or upgrading new plugins, please backup your database first!

Changelog

Version 1.9: Small optimization in code and readme.txt
Version 1.8: Adding forgotten line in code for showing meta box in posts
Version 1.7: Better description text for ‘WordPress Plugin Directory’
Version 1.6: Optimizing code with ternary operator
Version 1.5: Prevent indexing category, tags, search, archiv, 404
Version 1.4: Isolating functions in own class
Version 1.3: Adding meta robots tag in wp_head by activation
Version 1.2: Display meta tag only for posts/pages
Version 1.1: Variable plugin basename
Version 1.0: Basic functionality with extra field in database

WordPress Meta Robots is free! Help me with a small donation for the further development of the plugin. Thank you!

Weiterführende Informationen
WordPress.org Plugin Directory – WordPress Meta Robots
Softpedia Download Encyclopedia – WordPress Meta Robots
Designstudio, Philipp Speck – WordPress Meta Description
Designstudio, Philipp Speck – WordPress Meta Keywords

Aktualisiert am 10. October 2011 von Philipp

24 Kommentare für WordPress Meta Robots

Arun
28. February 2011 um 08:36

I have added this Plugin details to http://2wp.org/wordpress-meta-robots-plugin/ .. It’s a cool plugin for setting meta data.
Jonathan
3. March 2011 um 12:52

Hey.

This is a great plugin, but somehow I can’t make it show up on the post-edit page. Only on the page-edit-page…. What am i Missing?

/J
Philipp
3. March 2011 um 14:54

I guess, Meta Robots is hidden. Open the pull down tab called “Screen options” in the right corner and check the check box. If you can’t find it, look here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/
Jonathan
4. March 2011 um 14:14

Hey Philipp, thanks for the answer…

But it doesn’t show up even in the screen-options-field. On the pages it does, but not on the post page….

weird… I have WP 3.1, and some other plugins…

Any more ideas?
Philipp
4. March 2011 um 15:43

Oh, I just forgot to implement this function in the new release. I will upload a new version after work. Thanks for your tip ;)
Jonathan
5. March 2011 um 07:23

Thanks! Now it works :)
ken
15. April 2011 um 17:13

Hello does your plugin work for wordpress the latest release,cos i uploaded it to my page and it dont make a admin panel for it?

regards ken
Philipp
18. April 2011 um 11:15

First you have to activate it under ‘Plugins’. After you’ll find it on post/page edit page.
Ray
9. May 2011 um 17:58

Nice plugin, but is there any way to tailor it to one particular robot (for instance, Googlebot-News)? I want to set this robot to noindex,nofollow certain posts, but leave the other robot settings intact. Thanks!
Philipp
12. May 2011 um 12:21

You want to control each crawler seperatly? Don’t get me wrong, but for the most users this function won’t be needed. BTW the handling of the plugin will be more complex and the head of your html output full of unnecessary entries. Thanks for your suggestion!
Ofer
12. August 2011 um 16:42

Hi,
I have downloaded the plug and activated it, I can change on each page the settings – but what about my home page? The plug made it noindex, nofollow??? How do I set it to index, follow?

Thanking you in advanced,
Ofer.
Philipp
12. August 2011 um 16:45

Look under ‘General Settings’ > ‘Privacy’.
Ofer
12. August 2011 um 22:43

Hi,
Sorry, but my control panel is in hebrew and under Settings > Genral there is nothing to do with Meta Robots, you can just set the format of time, day, website name, description and so on…
I have no way to change the Meta Robots on my Home Page – the Meta Rbots plug appear only on the pages I have created, and for some odd reason the Home Page is automatically set to Noindex, Nofollow.

Thank you very much,
Ofer.
Philipp
13. August 2011 um 13:28

After login go to http://www.yoursitename.com/wp-admin/options-privacy.php and set the site visibility to ”I would like my site to be visible to everyone…” This is an embedded function of WordPress for a general site visibility. For more information look here http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Privacy_Screen
Ofer
13. August 2011 um 22:42

Hi aganin,
It is set for “I would like my site to be visible to everyone”, but the plug set my home page to be noindex, nofollow… When the plug is off the noindex, nofollw on the home page disapears…

What should I do?

Thank you very much,
Ofer.
Philipp
14. August 2011 um 11:50

You can change it on the post/page edit page for a specific post/page. What does your WordPress installation show as front page? The blog or a specific page?
Ofer
14. August 2011 um 13:26

Hi,
On each pager I can set the Meta Robots, but I do not have acsses to the Home page on my theme…

Thanks,
Ofer.
Philipp
14. August 2011 um 14:14

There is no setting for the home page. I can’t help you, if you don’t answer my questions. What is shown on the home page? A static page or posts? Send me a link of your site by email.
Ofer
14. August 2011 um 14:26

It is a static page. I made some corrections to my home page and added a Meta Robts to my home page – but still the plug add another one…

just sent you the URL to mail@destio.de

Thanks,
Ofer.
Philipp
14. August 2011 um 17:54

The plugin itself is adding the necessary entry in your html head area. You don’t need to add code for this plugin. If your front page is a static page then check the meta robots value of this specific page. I argue, you have set it to ‘noindex, nofollow’.
Ofer
14. August 2011 um 18:12

I could not set it to noindex, nofollow – because there the plug appears only on the pages building the main menu panel on the Home page… I do not see the Home page like I see the other pages.
What about trying to add something like:

Meta Code

to the plug?

Thanks,
Ofer.
Philipp
14. August 2011 um 18:40

It seems that you don’t have a standard installation of WordPress. If you have a static page assigned as front page, why you can’t edit it like other pages? Sorry, but I can not help you with that. For now please answer by email.
Gerardo
24. December 2011 um 17:52

hello, is it explained in some place what do the 4 options mean, please;? index, follow…etc. I can imagine but It is not so clear for me. Thanks
Happy Christmas!
Philipp
30. December 2011 um 11:32

I will explain it in the description of the next release ;)

WordPress Meta Robots 1.9ƒ

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