WP Robots Txt
by George Pattichis 5 (21 reviews)

WP Robots Txt

WP Robots Txt Allows you to edit the content of your robots.txt file.

WP Robots Txt ranks #858 among WordPress.org plugins with 40,000+ active installations, is #50 of 4,265 in the SEO & Marketing category, a 5/5 rating from 21 reviews, and was last updated Aug 25, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4
v1.3.6 Current Version v1.3.6
Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 25 Aug, 2026
Refreshed 6 days ago Last Refreshed on
#50 of 4,265 in SEO & Marketing Top 1% by installs Downloads -29.9% this week
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Review 5 out of 5
5 (21 reviews)

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Reviews & Ratings

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Security History

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No known vulnerabilities on record for WP Robots Txt. Checked 2 weeks ago.

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site administrators who want to customize their site's robots.txt file. It solves the problem of robots.txt being dynamically generated with no easy way to edit its content, by adding an editable field to the Reading admin page.

  • Edit robots.txt content
  • Adds field to Reading admin page
  • No manual file editing required

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP Robots Txt

Delete all the content from the Robots.txt Content field and save the privacy options.
Yes. Be careful! That said, robots.txt files are suggestions. They don't really block bots as much as they suggest that bots don't crawl portions of a site. That's why the options on the Privacy Settings page say "Ask search engines not to index this site."
No. Since WordPress 5.3 that setting adds a noindex meta tag. It does not add Disallow: / to robots.txt. Your saved rules are still served. Add Disallow: / yourself if you want crawlers to skip the site.
WordPress only serves the virtual robots.txt when there is no physical robots.txt file in the site root. Delete or rename that file to use this plugin.
Here is a general guide by Google and here is the WordPress SEO documentation.

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