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Noindex Pages

by radgh

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Description

This simple and lightweight plugin adds a “Hide from search engines” checkbox above the publish box to pages. By
ticking this box, a meta tag will be placed into the <head> section of your page specifying that robots should
not index the page.

By default this only applies to pages. You may extend this functionality to posts or other custom post types with a small bit of code. See the FAQ’s tab for further instructions.

  1. Upload the plugin files to /wp-content/plugins/noindex-pages/, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. Edit a page, look for the checkbox above the “Publish” or “Update” button near the top-right.
  4. (Optional) verify it works by viewing your page and then right-click, “View Source”, and look for the meta tag with the name “robots” and value “noindex”.
  5. (Optional) Extend the functionality to posts or other custom post types by reading the FAQ’s.
  1. The publish box when editing a page, the added checkbox is highlighted.

    The publish box when editing a page, the added checkbox is highlighted.

  2. The source code for the page, the added meta tag is highlighted.

    The source code for the page, the added meta tag is highlighted.

Are there any advanced features, such as to block specific robots or add this code to archive/search pages?

No, this is just a simple plugin.

Can this be used for custom post types or posts?

Yes, with a bit of PHP. Just use the following code in your functions.php, which will add support for “post” and “product”:

function noindex_for_cpts( $post_types ) {
    return $post_types + array( "post", "product" );
}
add_filter('noindex-pages-post-types', 'noindex_for_cpts');

gem of a plugin

By webgalway on March 29, 2021

exactly what I was looking for, my thanks to the developer.

Does not work for blog posts, no answers in support forum

By Marc Bijl (newoceans) on January 31, 2019

It works for regular pages, however, it doesn't for blog posts. Issues/support threads are not answered, worse: are closed without answering.

Perfect!

By hbirdofinet on August 19, 2018

Simple to use and does exactly what it says. Definitely 5 stars. My only question is (I'm new to this stuff): Is it safe to be using such an old plugin? Even though I know it wouldn't need updates for the functionality, is using this plugin going to make my site unsafe or does it need updates simply for security reasons? Thanks!

One thing it does, it does!

By ariapictures on February 4, 2017

I have All In One SEO, and Jet Pack and these do not show up on the pages with the code, cannot find them doing a search for "noindex" With NoIndex Pages, it's there!!! Thanks

Boom, does what it says

By Callum Macdonald (chmac) on January 12, 2017

Booya. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Read the code, it's clean and simple. Love it.

nicely done!

By rothschild86 on September 3, 2016

thank you!

1.0.1

  • Improved screenshot quality for wordpress.org
  • Corrected “Tested up to” version number
  • Corrected “Requires at least” version number

1.0.0

  • First release
  • Pre-release version notes can be found on Github
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