Per-post, per-taxonomy, and per-archive noindex/nofollow control via the HTML tag. FREE feature.
How It Works
RANKFORGE_Robots_Meta filters WordPress core’s wp_robots directives instead of printing a second robots tag. It evaluates the current page and merges Rank Forge visibility settings into the single core - Singular pages: reads
_rankforge_noindexand_rankforge_nofollowfrompost_meta - Category/tag/taxonomy archives: reads from
term_meta - Post type archives: reads from
rankforge_archive_robotsoption
If neither is set, Rank Forge leaves the page indexable. Existing core directives still win: when WordPress Settings > Reading > Discourage search engines from indexing this site sets blog_public = 0, the final robots output remains noindex, nofollow regardless of Rank Forge per-post defaults.
Programmatic Control
php
$post_id = 42;
// Set noindex on a specific post
update_post_meta( $post_id, '_rankforge_noindex', '1' );
update_post_meta( $post_id, '_rankforge_nofollow', '1' );
// Check via public API
$is_noindex = RANKFORGE_Robots_Meta::is_noindex( $post_id );
// Taxonomy term robots control
$term_id = 15;
update_term_meta( $term_id, '_rankforge_noindex', '1' );
// Post type archive robots control
$archive_robots = get_option( 'rankforge_archive_robots', [] );
$archive_robots['product'] = [ 'noindex' => true ];
update_option( 'rankforge_archive_robots', $archive_robots );php
// Bulk operations: noindex all posts with a specific tag
$tag_posts = get_posts( [
'tag' => 'deprecated',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'fields' => 'ids',
] );
foreach ( $tag_posts as $pid ) {
update_post_meta( $pid, '_rankforge_noindex', '1' );
}—