: How to Edit or Remove robots.txt on a WordPress powered website When using Google's fetch test on my WordPress site, it reports that my robots.txt is blocking pages and resources from being

@Jennifer507

If this is fresh install of Wordpress it could because you have set the privacy settings to stop search engines from crawling the site.

(and there will be no physical robots.txt on the server, as wordpress creates it on the fly)

Go to your settings in wordpress and see if this box is ticked:



If so, uncheck it and then the robots.txt should change to

User-agent: *
Disallow:


If you still have issues and the robots.txt is still set to block crawlers, then explore the other option as outlined by Facet.

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@Hamaas447

You have to update robots.txt file in WordPress through Cpanel because When you install Yoast SEO plugins, It automatically generates robots file for your site. But i you really want to edit it with your own instructions, login your hosting server->file manager then edit it.

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@Turnbaugh106

You need to remove both lines from your robots.txt file. The robots file is located in the root directory of your web hosting folder, this normally can be found in /public_html/ and you should be able to edit or delete this file using:


FTP using a FTP client such as FileZilla or WinSCP
SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) using a SFTP client such as FileZilla or WinSCP
SSH using a SSH client such as Putty
WebDev (Web Disk) using a compatible OS that allows mapping of WebDav Drives.
WordPress using a robots.txt WP plugin

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