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1. 

   bigtoe
   Member

   Hi there.

   I'm trying to modify a "thematic_create_robots" filter and it's not going well.

   Any help would be greatly appreciated.

   I would like to make http://example.com/page/2 and all those paged URLs have a "noindex,follow" robots meta tag, basically, the entire /page/ dir.

   I tried messing around with the ((is_home() && ($paged < 2 )) bits, and it's not working, probably because I'm not very good with php.

   Do I need to create another elseif statement, and how?

   I don't have any SEO plugins installed, and would like to do this with the filter.

   Here's what I have in functions.php for your reference. Thanks in advance.

   function childtheme_create_robots() {
    if((is_home() && ($paged < 2 )) || is_front_page() || is_single() || is_attachment()) {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" />";
    } elseif (is_search()) {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,nofollow\" />";
    }
   /*
   elseif (is_page('about-me') {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,follow\" />";
    }
   */
   else {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,follow\" />";
    }
       return $content;
   }
   add_filter('thematic_create_robots', 'childtheme_create_robots');

   With the above, I get "index,follow" for everything in /paged/

   Posted 3 years ago #
2. 

   Chris
   Moderator

   Hi,

   add global $paged; as first line in your function.

   Chris

   Posted 3 years ago #
3. 

   bigtoe
   Member

   Hi Chris.

   Thanks for the reply. I did the the following, and I'm still showing "index,follow" for everything in /paged/ from the front page unfortunately.

   No idea what I'm doing wrong. Here's what I have.

   function childtheme_create_robots() {
   global $paged;
    if((is_home() && ($paged < 2 )) || is_front_page() || is_single() || is_attachment()) {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" />";
    } elseif (is_search()) {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,nofollow\" />";
    } 
   
   else {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,follow\" />";
    }
       return $content;
   }
   add_filter('thematic_create_robots', 'childtheme_create_robots');

   Hopefully it's a simple fix. Thanks.

   Posted 3 years ago #
4. 

   bigtoe
   Member

   Still can't figure this out. Anybody got a minute? Been cracking my head for hours.

   Do I need to modify this ((is_home() && ($paged < 2 ))or is there some other statement I can add to the filter?

   Something like

   elseif "/page/" {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,follow\" />";
    }

   I tried reversing the < sign, and a bunch of other things that got me syntax errors, but it ended up putting noindex on the front page. Yikes.

   Wish I were decent at php, but it makes my brain hurt.

   Posted 3 years ago #
5. 

   bigtoe
   Member

   Please sir, may I have some help.

   So I gave this another shot, but apparently I suck.

   Here's what I got, and I'm still getting "index,follow" on "example.com/page/3" etc URLs. I need "noindex,follow".

   function childtheme_create_robots() {
   
    if(is_front_page() || is_single() || is_attachment()) {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" />";
    } elseif (is_search()) {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,nofollow\" />";
    } 
   
   elseif (is_paged()) {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,follow\" />";
    } 
   
   else {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,follow\" />";
    }
       return $content;
   }
   add_filter('thematic_create_robots', 'childtheme_create_robots');

   Where did I mess up?

   Posted 3 years ago #
6. 

   bigtoe
   Member

   Figured it out.

   Looks like is_paged() doesn't work standing on its own and needs another conditional with it. And I'm just guessing.

   Thanks for playing wheel of fortune.

   Pasting my filter below so anybody else who wants to copy/use/modify/analyze/obfuscate/clean up/comment/study/port to assembly/delete/discuss it can do so.

   function childtheme_create_robots() {
    if((is_home() && !is_paged()) || (is_front_page() && !is_paged()) || is_single() || is_attachment()) {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" />\n\n";
    }
   elseif (is_search()) {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,nofollow\" />\n\n";
    }
   else {
    $content .= "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,follow\" />\n\n";
    }
       return $content;
   }
   add_filter('thematic_create_robots', 'childtheme_create_robots');

   Posted 3 years ago #
7. 

   Thompson
   Member

   Update for anyone who stumbles across this as I did when searching. The code above is outdated, but I figured out the current way to modify meta robots:

   // Add noindex to terms/privacy/contact pages
   function my_robots() {
   if (is_page(array(45,142,56))) { //terms,privacy,contact
   echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />';
   }
   else {
   echo '<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />';
   }
   }
   add_filter('thematic_show_robots', 'my_robots');

   Posted 2 years ago #
8. 

   helgatheviking
   Moderator

   seems weird to me. you don't normally echo things out when you are filtering

   Posted 2 years ago #

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