Title: Search Engine Visibility Warning
Author: Pau Iglesias
Published: <strong>September 20, 2011</strong>
Last modified: August 31, 2015

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Search plugins

![](https://ps.w.org/visibility-warning/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=1124891)

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://ps.w.org/visibility-warning/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1124891)

# Search Engine Visibility Warning

 By [Pau Iglesias](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pauiglesias/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/visibility-warning.1.1.zip)

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

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/visibility-warning/)

## Description

Show a warning message in admin header area when your blog visibility is blocked
for search engines.

Also, when your blog is visible for everyone, hides the de-indexing option to avoid
accidental changes.

## Installation

 1. Download the plugin from WordPress plugin repository
 2. Upload all files contained in visibility-warning.zip file to the `/wp-content/plugins/
    visibility-warning/` directory of your wordpress install (or in mu-plugins directory).
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  How I can block again my web site if the Privacy menu link is hidden?

There are two ways, if you deactivate your plugin the menu link will appear. Or 
in the URL textbox of your browser, modify at the end of the URL and type /wp-admin/
options-privacy.php (only for WordPress versions < 3.5).
 For recent WordPress versions
deactivate this plugin if you want to access to the option of discourage search 
engines from indexing this site in Reading Settings.

But for SEO purposes this is not recommended if your site has previously been indexed
by google.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Search Engine Visibility Warning” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Pau Iglesias ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pauiglesias/)
 *   [ Blogestudio ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/blogestudio/)

[Translate “Search Engine Visibility Warning” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/visibility-warning)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.1

Release Date: March 31th, 2015

 * Updating code for the latest WordPress version
 * Set compatibility for recent versions
 * Changed plugin name
 * Translations updated

#### 1.0.1

Release Date: September 19th, 2011

 * Fixed initialization, now only works in admin area

#### 1.0

Release Date: September 19th, 2011

 * First version

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.3.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/visibility-warning/)
 * Tags
 * [block](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/block/)[index](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/index/)
   [indexing](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/indexing/)[search engines](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search-engines/)
   [seo](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/visibility-warning/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Pau Iglesias ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pauiglesias/)
 *   [ Blogestudio ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/blogestudio/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/visibility-warning/)