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#43557 new defect (bug)

Remove wp-admin/admin-ajax.php from robots.txt - sure give ppl the ability to add it, remove the default

Reported by: phuquocgreentours Owned by:
Milestone: Awaiting Review Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 4.9.4
Component: General Keywords:
Focuses: Cc:

Description

This is a follow-up to #33156.

This is dumb...

My site returns 0 and HTTP status code of 400 when hitting admin-ajax.php.
Of course, Google is going to have a hard time interpreting that.

All the links on the page Google complained about are Javascript executed requests. There are no bare https://site/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?someparam=getsomedata that Googlebot can follow. Everything is executed from JS and obviously requires the correct params.

I don't want errors from Googlebot...

Looking for how to remove this default robots.txt rubbish.

Expose robots.txt to the WP API so whoever needs this can add it.
Making it default is ludicrous :/

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