Title: do_robotstxt
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: August 20, 2026

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# do_action( ‘do_robotstxt’ )

## In this article

 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/do_robotstxt/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/do_robotstxt/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/do_robotstxt/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Fires when displaying the robots.txt file.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/do_robotstxt/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    do_action( 'do_robotstxt' );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/functions.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.1/src/wp-includes/functions.php#L1723)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.1/src/wp-includes/functions.php#L1723-L1723)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/do_robotstxt/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [do_robots()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/do_robots/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Displays the default robots.txt file content.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/do_robotstxt/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [2.1.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.1.0/) | Introduced. |

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