On master, ensure Yoast plugin is active and visit a guest author's archive page
View page source, observe the <meta name='robots' content='noindex, follow' /> tag is there – preventing search engines from indexing the site
Switch to this branch, reload the page, observe the tag has now a different value (<meta name='robots' content='index, follow, max-image-preview:large' />), allowing for indexing
Description
Prevents Yoast plugin (
wordpress-seo
) from preventing the indexing of author archive pages.Closes https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/9147 Closes https://github.com/Automattic/newspack-plugin/issues/1506
Steps to Test
master
, ensure Yoast plugin is active and visit a guest author's archive page<meta name='robots' content='noindex, follow' />
tag is there – preventing search engines from indexing the site<meta name='robots' content='index, follow, max-image-preview:large' />
), allowing for indexing