Feature request Update button | WordPress.org

Resolved mbeerli
(@mbeerli)

2 years ago
Hi Marios,
how about a next level integration.

Why not have a button to update the robots.txt file.
It would need a static section and a badbots sections.

Take a look here
https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker/blob/master/robots.txt/robots.txt
or the main page
https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker

your Virtual Robots.txt file should have an update button to update the badbot section.

the static section I have entries like the following:
```
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 3
Disallow: /lists/
Disallow: /wprm_print/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /page/*/$
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-register.php
Disallow: /it/wprm_print/
```
…
then another botton to check your robots.txt file
for example
https://pagedart.com/tools/robots-txt-file-checker/

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Plugin Author Marios Alexandrou
(@marios-alexandrou)

2 years ago

Not a bad idea, but since people can easily just paste in whatever they want from whatever source they choose to achieve the same thing I don’t expect this’ll be tackled anytime soon.

Thread Starter mbeerli
(@mbeerli)

2 years ago

Well I think automation is key.
Based on https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker/tree/master/robots.txt
there could be a cron job to check weekly for a new version. If automated, for example like the plugin updates if makes the site more secure, user friendly. Your plugin is for the administrators of the WP sites.
See the updaterobots.sh file, which does a wget of the file
It should only replace the badbots section so the other section is stable.
Once the file is updated you send an email to the administrator.
This will make your plugin separate you from the rest.
I do the check and copy and paste now monthly.
It is just a feature request. I like your plugin that is why I am using it.
Have a good Easter.

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