Opened 8 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#38105 closed defect (bug) (invalid)
wp_no_robots() should instruct robots to *not* follow links
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | 4.6.1 |
| Component: | General | Keywords: | |
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Description
If a page is not meant to be public then the expectation would be that robots would be instructed not to index the page, and not to follow links.
However, the wp_no_robots() function instructs robots to follow links within the page (it uses follow instead of nofollow):
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_no_robots/
Is this intentional or a typo?
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It's intentional, see #22876.