Changeset 49992 for trunk/src/wp-includes/general-template.php

Timestamp:

01/21/2021 01:35:16 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

flixos90

Message:

Robots: Introduce Robots API.

This changeset introduces a filter-based Robots API, providing central control over the robots meta tag.

• Introduces wp_robots() function which should be called anywhere a robots meta tag should be included.
• Introduces wp_robots filter which allows adding or modifying directives for the robots meta tag. The wp_robots() function is entirely filter-based, i.e. if no filter is added to wp_robots, no directives will be present, and therefore the entire robots meta tag will be omitted.
• Introduces the following wp_robots filter functions which replace similar existing functions that were manually rendering a robots meta tag:
  • wp_robots_noindex() replaces noindex(), which has been deprecated.
  • wp_robots_no_robots() replaces wp_no_robots(), which has been deprecated.
  • wp_robots_sensitive_page() replaces wp_sensitive_page_meta(), which has been deprecated. Its rendering of the referrer meta tag has been moved to another new function wp_strict_cross_origin_referrer().

Migration to the new functions is straightforward. For example, a call to add_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_no_robots' ) should be replaced with add_filter( 'wp_robots', 'wp_robots_no_robots' ).

Plugins and themes that render their own robots meta tags are encouraged to switch to rely on the wp_robots filter in order to use the central management layer now provided by WordPress core.

Props adamsilverstein, flixos90, timothyblynjacobs, westonruter.
See #51511.

File:

• trunk/src/wp-includes/general-template.php (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/wp-includes/general-template.php

@@ -3192 +3192 @@
 
 /**
- * Displays a noindex meta tag if required by the blog configuration.
- *
- * If a blog is marked as not being public then the noindex meta tag will be
- * output to tell web robots not to index the page content. Add this to the
- * {@see 'wp_head'} action.
- *
- * Typical usage is as a {@see 'wp_head'} callback:
- *
- *     add_action( 'wp_head', 'noindex' );
- *
- * @see wp_no_robots()
- *
- * @since 2.1.0
- */
-function noindex() {
-    // If the blog is not public, tell robots to go away.
-    if ( '0' == get_option( 'blog_public' ) ) {
-        wp_no_robots();
-    }
-}
-
-/**
- * Display a noindex meta tag.
- *
- * Outputs a noindex meta tag that tells web robots not to index the page content.
- * Typical usage is as a {@see 'wp_head'} callback. add_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_no_robots' );
- *
- * @since 3.3.0
- * @since 5.3.0 Echo "noindex,nofollow" if search engine visibility is discouraged.
- */
-function wp_no_robots() {
-    if ( get_option( 'blog_public' ) ) {
-        echo "<meta name='robots' content='noindex,follow' />\n";
-        return;
-    }
-
-    echo "<meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' />\n";
-}
-
-/**
- * Display a noindex,noarchive meta tag and referrer origin-when-cross-origin meta tag.
- *
- * Outputs a noindex,noarchive meta tag that tells web robots not to index or cache the page content.
+ * Displays a referrer strict-origin-when-cross-origin meta tag.
+ *
  * Outputs a referrer origin-when-cross-origin meta tag that tells the browser not to send the full
  * url as a referrer to other sites when cross-origin assets are loaded.
  *
- * Typical usage is as a wp_head callback. add_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_sensitive_page_meta' );
- *
- * @since 5.0.1
- */
-function wp_sensitive_page_meta() {
+ * Typical usage is as a wp_head callback. add_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_strict_cross_origin_referrer' );
+ *
+ * @since 5.7.0
+ */
+function wp_strict_cross_origin_referrer() {
     ?>
-    <meta name='robots' content='noindex,noarchive' />
     <meta name='referrer' content='strict-origin-when-cross-origin' />
     <?php