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apply_filters( ‘wp_robots’, array $robots )

Filters the directives to be included in the ‘robots’ meta tag.

Description

The meta tag will only be included as necessary.

Parameters

$robotsarray: Associative array of directives. Every key must be the name of the directive, and the corresponding value must either be a string to provide as value for the directive or a boolean true if it is a boolean directive, i.e. without a value.

Source

$robots = apply_filters( 'wp_robots', array() );

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Changelog

Version	Description
5.7.0	Introduced.

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jakeparis 3 years ago

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Example of adding a noindex robots tag.
```
add_filter( 'wp_robots', function( $robots ) {
	$robots['noindex'] = true;

	return $robots;
} );
```
To affect pages with a certain page template, you can add this directly to the template, as long as it’s above the call to wp_header().

To have more granular control over what pages are affected, you can add the snippet to your functions.php file and work with the current page inside the function:
```
add_filter( 'wp_robots', function( $robots ) {
	$id = get_the_ID();

	if ( 19 === $id ) {
		$robots['noindex'] = true;
	}

	return $robots;
} );
```
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