Virtual Robots.txt
Marios AlexandrouVirtual Robots.txt is an easy (i.e. automated) solution to creating and managing a robots.txt file for your site. Instead of mucking about with FTP, files, permissions ..etc, just upload and activate the plugin and you’re done.
By default, the Virtual Robots.txt plugin allows access to the parts of WordPress that good bots like Google need to access. Other parts are blocked.
If the plugin detects an existing XML sitemap file, a reference to it will be automatically added to your robots.txt file.
If a physical robots.txt file exists on your site, WordPress won’t process any request for one, so there will be no conflict.
Out of the box, no. Because WordPress is in a sub-folder, it won’t “know” when someone is requesting the robots.txt file which must be at the root of the site.
No it doesn’t.
By default, the virtual robots.txt is set to block WordPress files and folders that don’t need to be accessed by search engines. Of course, if you disagree with the defaults, you can easily change them.
Doesn't seem to work as described
By treysuttle on September 19, 2023
I had an issue that I believed was being caused by the plugin but the plugin author was very quick to help and clear up the issue. Great and helpful customer service - thanks!
Very useful
By Denis Creative on September 30, 2021
Great plugin!
By yorgosx on November 23, 2018
It wasn't what I expected.
By Josh Gellock (joshuagellock) on March 18, 2018
A good plugin
By mm1379 on March 23, 2017
Doesn't seem to work
By (Cassman) on December 29, 2016
Does the Job
By SEO Plugin Expert Florin (florinmuresan) on October 19, 2016
Efficient and unobstrusive
By Manuel Schmalstieg (tar.gz) on October 3, 2016
1.10
- Fix to prevent the saving of HTML tags within the robots.txt form field. Thanks to TrustWave for identifying this issue.
1.9
- Fix for PHP 7. Thanks to SharmPRO.
1.8
- Undoing last fixes as they had unintended side-effects.
1.7
- Further fixes to issue with newlines being removed. Thanks to FAMC for reporting and for providing the code fix.
- After upgrading, visit and re-save your settings and confirm they look correct.
1.6
- Fixed bug where newlines were being removed. Thanks to FAMC for reporting.
1.5
- Fixed bug where plugin assumed robots.txt would be at http when it may reside at https. Thanks to jeffmcneill for reporting.
1.4
- Fixed bug for link to robots.txt that didn’t adjust for sub-folder installations of WordPress.
- Updated default robots.txt directives to match latest practices for WordPress.
- Plugin development and support transferred to Marios Alexandrou.
1.3
- Now uses do_robots hook and checks for is_robots() in plugin action.
1.2
- Added support for existing sitemap.xml.gz file.
1.1
- Added link to settings page, option to delete settings.
1.0
- Initial release.
- Upload pc-robotstxt folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Once you have the plugin installed and activated, you’ll see a new Robots.txt menu link under the Settings menu. Click that menu link to see the plugin settings page. From there you can edit the contents of your robots.txt file.
Reviews
4.2 out of 5 stars
- Version: 1.10
- Last updated: 3 months ago
- Active installations: 50K
- WordPress version: 5.0
- Tested up to: 6.6.2
- PHP version: false