Title: Robots Meta Whiz
Author: Marat Nepomnyashy
Published: <strong>October 17, 2015</strong>
Last modified: January 9, 2017

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Search plugins

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/robotswhiz.svg)

# Robots Meta Whiz

 By [Marat Nepomnyashy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maratbn/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/robotswhiz.1.2.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/robotswhiz/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/robotswhiz/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/robotswhiz/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/robotswhiz/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/robotswhiz/)

## Description

Overview:

At the time of this writing, the latest version of WordPress, version 4.7,
 has 
functionality to discourage search engines from indexing the whole site, but not
functionality to discourage search engines from indexing only certain specific pages
and posts of the site.

Robots Meta Whiz is a WordPress plugin that allows site administrators to
 deploy
custom meta robots tags to discourage search engines from indexing, following links
from, caching, indexing images from, and / or have additional custom restrictions
on only for certain specifically-designated pages and posts.

It is an easy way to discourage search engines from indexing only specific
 pages/
posts.

This only applies to search engine robots, and will not effect the site’s
 local
search functionality.

Technical summary:

Plugin works by hooking-in special logic into the action ‘wp_head’ to inject
 the
tag `<meta name='robots' content='...'>` with restriction directives for the specified
pages and posts.

Official project URLs:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/robotswhiz
 https://github.com/maratbn/RobotsWhiz

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Robots Meta Whiz configuration screen.

## Installation

 1. Unzip contents of `robotswhiz.zip` into the directory `/wp-content/plugins/robotswhiz/`.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

## FAQ

  Where can I ask a question about Robots Meta Whiz?

Ask your questions at: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/robotswhiz

  Where can I post issues / bugs / feature requests?

Post issues / bugs / feature requests at: https://github.com/maratbn/RobotsWhiz/
issues

  Where can I post pull requests?

Post pull requests at: https://github.com/maratbn/RobotsWhiz/pulls

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Robots Meta Whiz” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Marat Nepomnyashy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maratbn/)

[Translate “Robots Meta Whiz” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/robotswhiz)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/robotswhiz/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/robotswhiz/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/robotswhiz/) by 
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/robotswhiz/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.2.0

 * Updated screenshot.
 * Added the ability to also sort the posts table by the robot restriction tokens.
 * Inserted thin dashed line between each post attribute row and the tokens row 
   for better
    readability.
 * Fixed incorrect sorting of the page template column occuring under WordPress 
   version < 4.7

#### 1.1.0

 * Implemented user sorting of the posts table rows according to column values and
   in ascending or
    descending order.
 * Having the robots meta tokens be sorted alphabetically.

#### 1.0.0

 * Renamed the plugin from RobotsWhiz to Robots Meta Whiz.
 * Additional minor changes to description and keywords.

#### 0.3.0

 * Added screenshot of configuration screen.
 * Miscellaneous documentation improvements.

#### 0.2.1

 * Fixed bug: Restored the php echo short tags for rendering `<table>` column
    header
   captions that were incorrectly removed earlier.
 * Fixed bug: Corrected the logic for processing previously saved values.

#### 0.2.0

 * Updated description wording.
 * Added activation check for PHP version to not be < 5.4

#### 0.1.1

 * Minor code refactoring involving empty PHP echo short tags.
 * Corrected REQUIREMENTS in that the supported PHP version is >= 5.4 not >= 5.3

#### 0.1.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.0**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.8.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.7.33**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/robotswhiz/)
 * Tags
 * [crawlers](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/crawlers/)[robots](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/robots/)
   [robots.txt](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/robots-txt/)[search engines](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search-engines/)
   [spiders](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spiders/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/robotswhiz/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Marat Nepomnyashy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maratbn/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/robotswhiz/)