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is blocking robots.txt

iQ Block Country · support · 2025-02-27T03:24:00+00:00

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My rule is only to block one page from outside my country and nothing else. The plugin is blocking robots.txt as well, why ? Worked it out. Had to select Blocking of specific Post types and turn on Pages. Somewhat complex to set up blocking of just one page. Suggest to use Opera Browser free VPN to test out settings. Hi, Unless your robots.txt is served by WordPress it won’t be blocked by iQ Block Country. Only pages/posts that are handled by WordPress will be checked if blocking is necessary. Under normal circumstances robots.txt is a plain text file on your webhost and it will be served directly by the webserver (Apache, NGINX) pretty sure rankmath handles robots.txt guessing Yoast SEO would too But for those plugins it’s relevant to update the robots.txt file. So you make your settings at that plugin and the plugin saves the relevant changes to that text file. The text file however remains a text file where WordPress it not “started” when a search engine accesses that file. And if WordPress is not started iQ Block Country is not started either. So yes, other plugins may save/read the robots.txt file but only when WordPress is accessed. If that specific file is served by your webserver in general PHP and thus WordPress won’t be started.

Commercial Context

Opportunity

trust and abuse-prevention operations

Block Spam abuse-prevention assurance for keeping sites trusted, protected, and recoverable

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams

Wedge: test block spam lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts

Investigate Pain card needs detail market

Analysis

heuristic-v1

Summary: is blocking robots.txt: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence quote: Suggest to use Opera Browser free VPN to test out settings.

Affected feature: seo

compatibility missing feature value seo

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iQ Block Country

20.0K active installs · 1.2M downloads · rating 78.0

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technicalx 2025-02-27T03:27:00+00:00

Worked it out. Had to select Blocking of specific Post types and turn on Pages. Somewhat complex to set up blocking of just one page. Suggest to use Opera Browser free VPN to test out settings.

Pascal 2025-02-27T06:38:00+00:00

Hi, Unless your robots.txt is served by WordPress it won’t be blocked by iQ Block Country. Only pages/posts that are handled by WordPress will be checked if blocking is necessary. Under normal circumstances robots.txt is a plain text file on your webhost and it will be served directly by the webserver (Apache, NGINX)

technicalx 2025-02-28T01:32:00+00:00

pretty sure rankmath handles robots.txt guessing Yoast SEO would too

Pascal 2025-02-28T07:02:00+00:00

But for those plugins it’s relevant to update the robots.txt file. So you make your settings at that plugin and the plugin saves the relevant changes to that text file. The text file however remains a text file where WordPress it not “started” when a search engine accesses that file. And if WordPress is not started iQ Block Country is not started either. So yes, other plugins may save/read the robots.txt file but only when WordPress is accessed. If that specific file is served by your webserver in general PHP and thus WordPress won’t be started.