Robots Meta Whiz
Easy way to discourage search engines from indexing only specific pages / posts with custom meta tags.
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- Small user base (100+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 9 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 4.7 (latest is 7.1)
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Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Robots Meta Whiz stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| crawlers | >100 |
| robots | >100 |
| robots.txt | >100 |
| search engines | >100 |
| spiders | #94 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
About Robots Meta Whiz
From the official readme · v1.2.0Description
Overview:
At the time of this writing, the latest version of WordPress, version 4.7,
has functionality to discourage search engines from indexing the whole site,
but not functionality to discourage search engines from indexing only certain
specific pages and posts of the site.
Robots Meta Whiz is a WordPress plugin that allows site administrators to
deploy custom meta robots tags to discourage search engines from indexing,
following links from, caching, indexing images from, and / or have
additional custom restrictions on only for certain specifically-designated
pages and posts.
It is an easy way to discourage search engines from indexing only specific
pages / posts.
This only applies to search engine robots, and will not effect the site’s
local search functionality.
Technical summary:
Plugin works by hooking-in special logic into the action ‘wp_head’ to inject
the tag <meta name='robots' content='...'> with restriction directives for
the specified pages and posts.
Official project URLs:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/robotswhiz
https://github.com/maratbn/RobotsWhiz
Installation
- Unzip contents of
robotswhiz.zipinto the directory/wp-content/plugins/robotswhiz/. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Changelog
1.2.0
- Updated screenshot.
- Added the ability to also sort the posts table by the robot restriction tokens.
- Inserted thin dashed line between each post attribute row and the tokens row for better
readability. - Fixed incorrect sorting of the page template column occuring under WordPress version < 4.7
1.1.0
- Implemented user sorting of the posts table rows according to column values and in ascending or
descending order. - Having the robots meta tokens be sorted alphabetically.
1.0.0
- Renamed the plugin from RobotsWhiz to Robots Meta Whiz.
- Additional minor changes to description and keywords.
0.3.0
- Added screenshot of configuration screen.
- Miscellaneous documentation improvements.
0.2.1
- Fixed bug: Restored the php echo short tags for rendering
<table>column
header captions that were incorrectly removed earlier. - Fixed bug: Corrected the logic for processing previously saved values.
0.2.0
- Updated description wording.
- Added activation check for PHP version to not be < 5.4
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FAQ
Robots Meta Whiz: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 9, 2026
Is Robots Meta Whiz free?
Yes. Robots Meta Whiz is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Robots Meta Whiz safe to use in 2026?
Robots Meta Whiz shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 100+ sites and was last updated 10 years ago, and scores 25/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Robots Meta Whiz?
Robots Meta Whiz is active on 100+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 4,965 times since it launched in October 2015. It was downloaded 76 times in the last 30 days.
Does Robots Meta Whiz work with WordPress 7.1?
Robots Meta Whiz is officially tested up to WordPress 4.7.38, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Robots Meta Whiz last updated?
The latest version, 1.2.0, was released on January 9, 2017 (10 years ago).
Who makes Robots Meta Whiz?
Robots Meta Whiz is developed and maintained by Marat Nepomnyashy.
What are the best alternatives to Robots Meta Whiz?
The most popular alternatives to Robots Meta Whiz are Block AI Crawlers (1K+ installs), Robots.txt rewrite (1K+ installs) and AI Content Signals (800+ installs).
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