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Search engines blocked warning

Name: Search engines blocked warning
Author: apasionados

Shows a warning in the WordPress administration header when the option "Search Engine Visibility: Discourage search engines from indexing this si …

Search engines blocked warning ranks #9,077 among WordPress.org plugins with 500+ active installations, is #414 of 4,265 in the SEO & Marketing category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Jan 27, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.9 (Current: 7.1.4)

v1.0.0 Current Version v1.0.0

Updated 9 months ago Last Update on 27 Jan, 2026

Refreshed 2 days ago Last Refreshed on

#414 of 4,265 in SEO & Marketing Top 25% by installs

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.0.0
Last Updated: Jan 27, 2026
Requires WP: 4.0.1+
Tested Up To: 6.9
PHP Version: 5.6 or higher
Author: apasionados

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Discourage Search Engines block robots robots.txt search engine visibility

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site administrators managing staging, development, or production sites. It solves the problem of accidentally leaving search engines blocked by showing an admin header warning when the "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" option is enabled.

Admin header warning display
Detects Search Engine Visibility setting
Available in English and Spanish
Includes translation language files

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Search engines blocked warning

We often develop websites on staging or development servers. Sometimes the developers go to SETTINGS / READING and check "Search Engine Visibility: Discourage search engines from indexing this site" because they think it will help them not becoming indexed by a search engine. Much better than using this option (which by the way you should never use) you should install a Maintenance plugin like Maintenance and activate the option "503: Service temporarily unavailable, Google analytics will be disable".

No. The plugin doesn't write any options or settings to the database.

Install and activate. If the "Search Engine Visibility: Discourage search engines from indexing this site" option is selected you will see a WARNING in the header.

You can simply activate, deactivate or delete it in your plugin management section. There are no options stored in the database so you can delete it also via FTP and everything will be removed.

Please don't use it with WordPress MultiSite, as it has not been tested.

This plugin has been tested and works with PHP versions 5.6 and greater. WordPress itself recommends using PHP version 7.2 or greater. If you're using a PHP version lower than 5.6 please upgrade your PHP version or contact your Server administrator.

Yes. The plugin requires a PHP version 5.6 or higher and we recommend using PHP version 7.1 or higher. The plugin has been tested with PHP up to 7.2.

Of course we do. That's why we created it. ;-)