id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,focuses 34860,Search Engine Discouraged shown on dashboard when upgrading from an earlier version than 2.1,bswatson,swissspidy,"When upgrading a site to a version newer than 3.7 when the original version of WordPress was before 2.1, it's possible for the ""Search Engines Discouraged"" text to be shown on the dashboard, even if the setting isn't configured. In the dashboard code, the conditional to check for this option checks specifically if get_option( 'blog_public' ) is set to '1'. {{{#!php />
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}}} Ref: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-admin/options-reading.php#L113 On upgrade, the default value allowed search engines to be index, but now displays that they should not. This only appears to be display issue on the dashboard, as output of the no-index meta checks against 0 instead of 1. {{{#!php