Title: Robots.txt blocking important page?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Robots.txt blocking important page?

 *  [dsconstructs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsconstructs/)
 * (@dsconstructs)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-blocking-important-page/)
 * Getting a message from WMT that my robots.txt is blocking some important page.
   This is my robots.txt file
 * User-agent: *
    Disallow: /wp-content/themes Disallow: /wp-content/plugins Disallow:/
   plugins/* Disallow: /page/*/ Disallow: /category/*/* Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow:/
   blog-archives Disallow: /author/ Disallow: /?* Disallow: /*?* Disallow: /trackback
   Disallow: /xmlrpc.php?rsd Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /wp-comments*
 * Sitemap: [http://donsheppardhomerepairs.com/sitemap.xml.gz](http://donsheppardhomerepairs.com/sitemap.xml.gz)
 * I can’t figure out how it’s blocking my page(s)
    It’s a small site, and it did
   drop from 17 pages indexed to 15. Any advice?

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 *  [richarduk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richarduk/)
 * (@richarduk)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-blocking-important-page/#post-2329426)
 * Is this a wind-up?
 * As far as I know, these two at least are pointless since they’re internal paths.
 * Disallow: /wp-content/themes
    Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
 * All I would suggest is get rid of that long list and just start again. Get the
   urls of the pages or categories that you don’t want, and do the disallow stuff
   with them.
 *  Thread Starter [dsconstructs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsconstructs/)
 * (@dsconstructs)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-blocking-important-page/#post-2329446)
 * It’s a legit newbie question. I was given the robots.txt to use and it worked
   fine for several months til just the last couple days.
 * I’ll try clearing it out and starting more basic.
    Thank you

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