IndexNow Plugin

What the author says it does

IndexNow Plugin for WordPress enables automated submission of URLs from WordPress sites to the multiple search engines without the need to register and verify your site with them. Once installed, the plugin will automatically generate and host the API key on your site. It detects page creation/update/ deletion in WordPress and automatically submits the URLs in the background. This ensures that search engines will always have the latest updates about your site. This plugin submits URLs to a generic end point https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow and these URLs are shared to all participating search engines.

The plugin automatically respects noindex directives to prevent submission of URLs that should not be indexed. It checks the actual rendered HTML for <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tags. It also checks X-Robots-Tag HTTP headers and WordPress site-wide search engine visibility settings.

Some other handy features included in the plugin:

• Toggle the automatic submission feature.
• Exclude specific URL paths from auto-submission using wildcard patterns.
• Manually submit a URL to IndexNow.
• View list of recent URL submissions from the plugin.
• Retry any failed submissions from the recent submissions list.
• Download recent URL submissions for analysis.
• Status on recent successful and failed submissions.

The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.

Questions the author answers

Latest changelog entry

1.0.4

• Migrate UI to Fluent UI v9 with accessibility improvements.
• Universal noindex detection by parsing HTML meta robots tags and X-Robots-Tag header.
• Excluded paths feature to prevent submission of specific URL patterns.
• Retry support for failed URL submissions.
• Error banners for API key load failures.
• Fix package vulnerabilities and dependency upgrades.