Hi @joshgrisdale
I hope you’re well today!
There’s no “staging mode” and technically-speaking SmartCrawl doesn’t know whether it’s working on staging site or live site – it’s “just another site”.
You can, however, disable sitemaps and indexing on staging site just like on any other site:
1. go to “SmartCrawl -> Sitemaps -> Settings” page and click on “Deactivate” button at the bottom; this will disable sitemaps
2. go to “Settings -> Reading” page and check the “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” checkbox and save settings (this is core WordPress setting); it should make bots/crawlers not index the site
3. additionally, you can also set “noindex” and/or “nofollow” option for each post type on “SmartCrawl -> Title & Meta -> Post Types” page, though if step 2 above is applied it shouldn’t really be necessary;
All these settings are fully reversible and you can change them back at any time.
Kind regards,
Adam
