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WP Robots Txt
WP Robots Txt Allows you to edit the content of your robots.txt file.
- Installs
- 40,000+
- Rating
- 5.0 (21)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
Virtual Robots.txt
Virtual Robots.txt automatically creates a robots.txt file for your site. Your robots.txt file can be easily edited from the plugin settings page.
- Active installs
- 40,000+
- #870 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 457.1K
- 457,078
- Downloads, 30 days
- 3.2K
- 568 in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5
- 10 reviews
- Last updated
- 2 months ago
- Aug 20, 2026
- Version
- 1.10
- 0 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | August 20, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | Not stated |
| First published | June 13, 2009 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
Reviews
4.3 / 5 from 10 reviews
| 5 stars | 8 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 0 |
| 3 stars | 0 |
| 2 stars | 1 |
| 1 star | 1 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Virtual Robots.txt is an easy (i.e. automated) solution to creating and managing a robots.txt file for your site. Instead of mucking about with FTP, files, permissions ..etc, just upload and activate the plugin and you’re done.
By default, the Virtual Robots.txt plugin allows access to the parts of WordPress that good bots like Google need to access. Other parts are blocked.
If the plugin detects an existing XML sitemap file, a reference to it will be automatically added to your robots.txt file.
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
Will it conflict with an existing robots.txt file?
If a physical robots.txt file exists on your site, WordPress won’t process any request for one, so there will be no conflict.
Will this work for sub-folder installations of WordPress?
Out of the box, no. Because WordPress is in a sub-folder, it won’t “know” when someone is requesting the robots.txt file which must be at the root of the site.
Does this plugin modify individual posts, pages, or categories?
No it doesn’t.
Why does the default plugin block certain files and folders?
By default, the virtual robots.txt is set to block WordPress files and folders that don’t need to be accessed by search engines. Of course, if you disagree with the defaults, you can easily change them.
Latest changelog entry
- Fix to prevent the saving of HTML tags within the robots.txt form field. Thanks to TrustWave for identifying this issue.
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- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.4 (85)
- Updated
- 5 months ago
Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.