# This file tells search engines which pages and files they should or shouldn't crawl
# Block all search engines from accessing sensitive or unnecessary WordPress directories

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/

# Allow access to the admin-ajax.php file for necessary functionality
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Block search engines from indexing search result pages
Disallow: /?s=

# Block indexing of author archive pages (especially for single-author blogs)
Disallow: /author/

# Block indexing of categories and tags to avoid duplicate content issues
Disallow: /tag/

# Block indexing of attachments as separate pages
Disallow: /attachment/