{"id":166932,"date":"2023-11-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weixiaoduo.com\/plugins\/2024\/02\/22\/staging-prevent-indexing\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:39:00","slug":"staging-prevent-indexing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weixiaoduo.com\/plugins\/staging-prevent-indexing\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevent Indexing on Non-Live Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This WordPress plugin ensures that search engine indexing is automatically turned OFF if the site\u2019s URL doesn\u2019t match the provided live site URL. It\u2019s especially useful for development and staging environments, where you might not want content to be indexed by search engines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2013 Automatically turns off search engine indexing for non-live sites.<br \/>\n\u2013 Provides an admin settings page to specify the live site URL.<br \/>\n\u2013 Displays an admin notice if indexing has been turned off due to URL mismatch.<br \/>\n\u2013 Encodes the live site URL to prevent inadvertent changes when using migration tools.<br \/>\n\u2013 Admin notice prompts for setting the live site URL if it hasn\u2019t been configured yet.<\/p>\n<h3>Usage<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>After activating the plugin, go to the admin dashboard.<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to <code>Settings<\/code> -> <code>Prevent Indexing<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Enter your live site URL in the provided input field and save.<\/li>\n<li>If the current site\u2019s URL doesn\u2019t match the provided live site URL, search engine indexing will be turned off, and an admin notice will inform you of the same.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>License<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/gpl-2.0.html\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">GPLv2 or later<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prevent your WordPress website from being indexed by search engines when it's not on the live site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":327028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Prevent Indexing on Non-Live Sites - \u8587\u6653\u6735\u63d2\u4ef6\u76ee\u5f55","description":"Prevent your WordPress website from being indexed by search engines when it's not on the live site."},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[282,7446,23609,433,5335],"class_list":["post-166932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-development","tag-indexing","tag-prevent","tag-seo","tag-staging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weixiaoduo.com\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weixiaoduo.com\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weixiaoduo.com\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weixiaoduo.com\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weixiaoduo.com\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weixiaoduo.com\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weixiaoduo.com\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weixiaoduo.com\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weixiaoduo.com\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weixiaoduo.com\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}