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=== Turn on Blog Privacy === Contributors: freshmuse, blobaugh Tags: privacy, multisite, enable privacy Requires at least: 3.0 Tested up to: 3.4.2 Stable tag: 1.0 Globally alters the site visibility settings to "Ask search engines not to index this site" when enabled. Upon deactivation it selects "Allow search engines to index this site" Multisite compatible == Description == If you have a public development site and desire for bots and crawlers not to visit your site until it is considered production this plugin can help you by automagically settings the site to private. This Multisite compatible plugin will detect whether your site is running a single install or a multisite install of WordPress and react accordingly. When you enable this plugin it sets the site option for whether or not the site should tell search engines and other crawlers not to index the site. Upon activations bots will be asked not to crawl the site (Note: this is not a 100% solution, bots may ignore this directive, though most search engines honor it). When this plugin is deactivated the privacy setting will be turned off and bots will be freely allowed to crawl the website again. == Installation == This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working. e.g. 1. Upload plugin folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 1. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress == Frequently Asked Questions == = Does this stop all bots/crawlers from indexing my site? = No. All this plugin does is enable the built-in WordPress privacy setting. This settings politely asks bots not to index the site, however they are free to ignore the directive and index the site anyways. In most cases bots will honor the directive and not crawl the website. Search engines, such as Google and Bing honor this. == Changelog == = 1.0 = * First version of the plugin