Plugin / Multisite Robots.txt Manager

tribalNerd, Chris Winters
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

A) Yes.
A) No, your install MUST be Multisite/Network enabled.
A) No.
A) No, only within the Network Admin.
A) No, the Main Admin Area for the MS Robots.txt Manager is located within the Network Admin.
A) Yes.
A) Yes. Typically, each Website uses the Network robots.txt file as the ‘base’ robots.txt file. Websites can then inject unique robots.txt file rules into the Network robots.txt file. However, within the Admin Area for each website, scroll down and click the “Disable the network robots.txt file…” checkbox. Allowing you to fully customize the robots.txt file. You can also: Disable the “network robots.txt file,” allowing you to manually add your own robots.txt file to each Network Website. You can also: Save/publish a blank robots.txt file from the network admin.
A) Yes.
A) Yes.
A) Yes & No. No, the Free Plugin only generates the Sitemap URL, you must manually add to the robots.txt file. Yes, the Pro Plugin automatically adds the Sitemap URL to robots.txt files for you.
A) Yes & No. No, the Free Plugin only generates the Theme Path, you must manually add to the robots.txt file. Yes, the Pro Plugin automatically adds the Theme Path to robots.txt files for you.
A) Yes & No. No, the Free Plugin only generates the Upload Path, you must manually add to the robots.txt file. Yes, the Pro Plugin automatically adds the Upload Path to robots.txt files for you.
A) Yes, however…. Search Engine Spiders do not read robots.txt files within a directory, robots.txt files for non-mapped domains are for for error checking purposes only.
A) From what I understand, no…. The root / network Website will contain the only robots.txt file.
A) The issue is due to an option called “rewrite rules” missing the robots.txt entry. Visit the Network Admin for the plugin, then click the Cleaner tab. If the Rewrite Rule an error message and a unique button will appear allowing you scan and update the rule for all Websites.
A) Typically this issue is due to either an a different robots.txt file plugin is active or that plugins robots.txt file data was never deleted when the plugin was removed. Visit the Network Admin for the plugin, then click the Cleaner tab. Click the “scan for old data” button to check for left over plugin data by other robots.txt file plugins.
A) No, multiple plugins will cause display issues with the robots.txt files.
A) Yes, however they typically only work for the default WordPress robots.txt file.
A) No! However you can disable the plugin and delete settings within the plugin admin area.

Ratings

3.9
13 reviews

Rating breakdown

Details Information

Version

2.1.0

First Released

12 Mar, 2012

Total Downloads

43,824

Wordpress Version

3.8 or higher

Tested up to:

5.2.4

Require PHP Version:

-

Tags

robot robots robots.txt robotstxt spiders

Contributors

tribalNerd Freemius

Languages

The plugin hasn't been transalated in any language other than English.

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