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Plugin update hides all posts from search engines

A plugin update set noindex on every post, hiding the whole site from search engines without warning or a setting to undo it.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 21 November 2024 · last reported 5 December 2024

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners report that after an update, the plugin added a noindex robots directive to every post on their site, including posts unrelated to podcasts.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.