WordPress Virtual Robots.TXT Overriding Custom Robots.TXT

  • The WordPress virtual robots.txt seems to be overriding my custom robots.txt.

    As you can see at: My Robots File the default robots.txt is showing, even though I have uploaded a custom robots.txt file.

    How can I prevent WordPress from overriding my custom robots.txt file?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I see this… it doesn’t look like the WP default robots.txt file:

    Sitemap: https://joshuarosato.ml/sitemap_index.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: */trackback/
Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: /*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /category/*
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
    Thread Starter joshuarosato

    (@joshuarosato)

    Yes, that’s the custom file, but Google and I are still seeing the default.

    For clarification, I’ve tried both logged in and out on 3 different web browsers.

    EDIT: It shows up properly on my phone, but Google still sees the default.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by joshuarosato.
    • This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by joshuarosato.
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