=== Plugin Name === Contributors: joostdevalk Donate link: http://yoast.com/donate/ Tags: meta,search engines,seo Requires at least: 2.8 Tested up to: 3.0 stable tag: 3.4 This plugin is no longer maintained and replaced by Yoast SEO. == Description == > PLEASE NOTE > This plugin no longer works and has been replaced by [Yoast SEO](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/). === For historical reasons only: === This plugin makes it possible (and very easy) to: * Prevent indexing of your search result pages, while still allowing the search engines to follow the links on them, by adding noindex,follow robots meta tags. * Disallow indexing of subpages to your homepage, category pages, author pages and tag pages, to prevent duplicate content. * Prevent indexing of your login, register and admin pages by adding noindex robots meta tags. * Add noodp an noydir meta robots tags, allowing you to opt out of DMOZ and Yahoo! Directory descriptions. * Prevent Yahoo! and Google from indexing your feeds by adding a meta tag to their head-section. * Prevent indexing of just your comment feeds. * Disable author and date-based archives. * Prevent attachment pages from ranking in the search results over your articles. * Enforce a trailing slash on archives. * Edit your .htaccess and your robots.txt from within WordPress. * Assign robots meta tags to individual posts & pages. * Verify your site with Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo! Site Explorer and Bing Webmaster Tools. * Add noarchive tags to your blog (Thanks to [Henryk Gerlach](http://blog.littleimpact.de/index.php/2008/07/03/noarchive-tag-for-robots-meta/)). More info: * [Robots Meta plugin](http://yoast.com/wordpress/meta-robots-wordpress-plugin/). * Read more about [WordPress SEO](http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/) so you can get the most out of this plugin. * Check out the other [Wordpress plugins](http://yoast.com/wordpress/) by the same author. == Changelog == = 3.4 = * Closing down the plugin entirely. = 3.3.1 = * Fixed bug in posts overview. = 3.3 = * Fixed bug where post / page robots meta settings would not save. * Added post / page robots meta settings to edit pages and edit posts overview. = 3.2.5 = * Added check to see whether Blog Privacy is set to block Search Engines and throw a warning if it is. = 3.2.4 = * Fixed saving noindex / index option on post / page edit screens. * Fixed some image links. = 3.2.3 = * Changed Google verification tag to match new standard. = 3.2.2 = * Upgraded backend class. = 3.2.1 = * Added localization for all texts. * Added .POT file. * Made .htaccess saving work again. * Added possibility to edit wp-content/cache/.htaccess when wp-super-cache is active. * Changed link from joostdevalk.nl to yoast.com (ouch, that move was almost a year ago). = 3.2 = * Switched to new backend class. * Updated backend with new look and feel and added some scripting to make explanation showing and hiding easier. * Added option to redirect attachment pages to their pagent posts / pages. * Switched to new changelog. == Installation == Installation is easy: * Download and unzip the plugin. * Copy the `robots-meta` folder to the plugins directory of your blog. * Enable the plugin in your admin panel. * An options panel will appear under Plugins. * Choose the settings you want.