Robots.txt problem with GSC

@ronny84

If No user-agent specified is the issue you are mentioning, the WP Optimize only adds Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wpo-plugins-tables-list.json to existing robots.txt

It doesn’t create robots.txt file, it only adds single line to existing file. So, you have to look which SEO plugin creates that file and why it hasn’t specified any user agent, etc

Hi,

I think its no other plugin. I have only a few and none of them does something with the robots.txt.

By the way: I asked some other people. They told me the code is wrong. That must look like Disallow: * /wp-content/uploads/wpo-plugins-tables-list.json

Could you please check your plugin?

Kind Regards

@ronny84

The rule is as per guidelines
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/create-robots-txt

To debug the issue…
1. Disable all plugins.
2. Delete robots.txt
3. Enable WP Optimize

You won’t see robots.txt file.
4. Enable other plugins one by one and you’ll find which plugin creates robots.txt

As I said in my earlier reply, WP Optimize only added one line when robots.txt exists

I have the same problem, I read in another thread that we should add:
add_filter( ‘wpo_update_plugin_json’, ‘__return_false’ );

But I don′t know where?
I put it like this and that second line is not working. I do not know about coding.

Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wpo-plugins-tables-list.json
add_filter( ‘wpo_update_plugin_json’, ‘__return_false’ );

Is it true that despite some of this information already being publicly available, providing a file like this is just inviting brute force campaigns? I am having plenty of haking attemps daily.