Not Indexing Specific Pages
Plugins are not always needed to do simple things. There is a fairly easy way to keep specific pages and posts on your Wordpress Blog from being indexed. All it requires is the addition of a custom field. And, a few lines of coding on your header template.
Not Indexing Specific Pages Made Easy
Rather than being difficult, keeping specific pages or posts from being indexed by a search engine is actually quite easy.
John H. Gohde is making the assumption that most bloggers would rarely want to keep a specific page or post from being index by search engines. Therefore, use of a plugin is really totally unnecessary. All that is required is the addition of a few lines of coding to your Header (header.php) template. And, the addition of a custom field.
Not indexing specific pages and posts is a feature of the All in One SEO plugin.
Step 1: Modify the Header Template
First, locate the following line of php coding in your Header template.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo(’html_type’); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo(’charset’); ?>" />
Then add the following lines of coding immediately after it.
global $wp_query, $post;
$meta_words=get_post_meta($post->ID, "html_meta", true);
if($meta_words)
print ‘<meta name="robots" content="’.$meta_words.‘" />’;
?>
Step 2: Add a Custom Field
Then on each page or post that you do not want to be indexed, add a custom field called htm_meta with the value of noindex, noarchive, nosnippet, follow.
John H. Gohde asks: What could be simpler?
July 27, 2009 at 7:52 am
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