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04-16-2011, 09:44 AM
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|  How do I remove robots.txt from Wordpress Site:
I do have some issues with google bot reading my robots.txt (see thread link below) and would like to try to remove it from one of my wordpress sites. After checking in WP forums, I could not find anything, that shows me how, since it seems to be integrated and hidden somehow in WP itself. Help? Robots.txt issue |
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04-16-2011, 09:47 AM
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| Re: How do I remove robots.txt from Wordpress Site:
Use ftp or better sftp.
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04-16-2011, 10:31 AM
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| Re: How do I remove robots.txt from Wordpress Site:
It's somehow embedded in wordpress and I can not find it.
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04-16-2011, 11:44 AM
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| Re: How do I remove robots.txt from Wordpress Site:
Why do you want to delete your robots.txt? Anyway... The robots.txt should be in your root folder. If your running Cpanel from your hosting, just search for robots.txt FTP, it's like I said before in your root folder. You could also just delete the contents of the robots.txt, instead of the actual file. |
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04-16-2011, 01:10 PM
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| Re: How do I remove robots.txt from Wordpress Site:
As I understand it, Wordpress creates a "virtual" robots.txt file which is used by the search engines, there isn't a physical file in your root. However, there are various plugins that you can install which allow you to edit the robots.txt that is generated, just go to plugins>add new and search for robots.txt and you'll see a range of options. Swarmer |
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04-16-2011, 01:48 PM
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| Re: How do I remove robots.txt from Wordpress Site:
If you create a new robots.txt (text file) & upload to your root folder on your site, it should replace the virtual robots.txt. That's why I said keep the actual text file in your root folder. When you search the robots.txt url in your browser, it should show the robots.txt file that is a real text file in your root folder (assumes you create the text file & place it in the root folder). You can make edits for testing to prove hxxp://domain.com/robots.txt is actually showing the real text file. Quote:
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