Discoverability · WordPress

robots.txt is blocking my whole site in WordPress

Nothing you publish can enter a search index while this is live. It is the single most expensive line a launch can ship with, and it is almost always left over from staging.

The fix for WordPress

13x detects your framework from the response and hands you this version rather than the generic one — below 50% confidence it hedges and gives you the generic one instead.

Check two places, in this order:

1. Settings → Reading — uncheck "Discourage search engines from indexing this site". This is the usual cause and it also injects noindex. 2. Your SEO plugin's robots.txt editor, for a leftover Disallow: /.

On a different stack? The general version of this fix explains what 13x checks and why it matters, without assuming a framework.

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