Prevent your WordPress website from being indexed by search engines when it's not on the live site.
As of April 2026, Prevent Indexing on Non-Live Sites is a WordPress seo plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 614 times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 7.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2023. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
This WordPress plugin ensures that search engine indexing is automatically turned OFF if the site’s URL doesn’t match the provided live site URL. It’s especially useful for development and staging environments, where you might not want content to be indexed by search engines.
Features:
– Automatically turns off search engine indexing for non-live sites.
– Provides an admin settings page to specify the live site URL.
– Displays an admin notice if indexing has been turned off due to URL mismatch.
– Encodes the live site URL to prevent inadvertent changes when using migration tools.
– Admin notice prompts for setting the live site URL if it hasn’t been configured yet.
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.1+ required |
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