How to remove NOINDEX on homepage

Hi Kany, George,

Thanks for dropping by George :).

Resetting will only remove the settings from the SEO settings from the page you’re on, so that would only be the global settings, I should rephrase that within the menu.

Please check out the Robots Meta Settings on the SEO Settings Page, and see if the whole site is being indexed.
The SEO Bar should also indicate of this when it’s happening (a blue “I” for NoIndex).

If your Home Page is a blog, you should only be able to adjust the settings like George (Geetar) has told.

Otherwise, if it’s a Static Page, you can adjust those settings as well, and please also check for the “Checked in Page” notification (in red) next to the Home Page robots settings.
If that’s lit up, you can click it and you’ll be sent to the Home Page page-edit screen. From there you can adjust the robots settings.

If this still fails to undo the NoIndex option, please inform me with your site’s URL so I can check out further parameters.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you require further assistance and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Hi Kany,

Unfortunately I’ve been ill the past two days. Nevertheless, thank you for being patient :).

I understand your concern, and I would like to ask you to do the following steps:

1. Have you disabled all the Robots settings in the SEO Settings page?
2. Is the home page editable through WordPress, and if so, are all robots settings disabled on it?

If this fails, I believe the home page isn’t correctly assigned through Customizer and The SEO Framework detects the page as being an empty archive.

Please be sure to assign the correct Front page right here:
/wp-admin/options-reading.php

They both should contain a value. The Front Page should lead to the page that’s currently disabled from indexing.

I hope this helps! Let me know if it works out! 🙂

P.S. I’ll look into the Polylang plugin ASAP.

Hi Kany,

As this might be a high-priority subject, I suggest to do at least the following to remove the noindex output (and all other The SEO Framework output) on the front page, by adding the following code to your (child-)theme’s functions.php file until we figure out what causes this issue:

add_action( 'get_header', 'my_remove_the_seo_framework_output', 11 );
/**
 * Call this function very early, before init.
 */
function my_remove_the_seo_framework_output() {

	if ( is_front_page() && function_exists( 'the_seo_framework' ) ) {
		$the_seo_framework = the_seo_framework();

		if ( isset( $the_seo_framework ) ) {
			remove_action( 'wp_head', array( $the_seo_framework, 'html_output' ), 1 );
			remove_action( 'genesis_meta', array( $the_seo_framework, 'html_output' ), 5 );
		}

	}

}

If you require information on where to place custom actions and/or filters, please refer to this guide. Do keep a backup of your files as you edit them.

I hope this helps! Keep me posted on the progression and let me know if you require any more assistance :).