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• Started 4 years ago by intellivision
• Latest reply from Olaf
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• Keep spiders out
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Keep spiders out of forum categories?

1. • 
   • intellivision
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   How to do this?
2. • 
   • fel64
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   What forum categories?

   You want a plugin like this:
   

   <?php
   /*
   Plugin Name: noindex stuff
   */
   
   add_action('bb_head', 'my_add_noindex_tag');
   function my_add_noindex_tag() {
   if( is_forum_category() )
   echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />';
   }
   ?>

   That's off the top of my head, so it may not work without some modification, but that's what I think the structure needs to be. You'll need a different conditional tag than is_forum_category(), probably is_forum() if you just wanted to not index forum pages.
3. • 
   • intellivision
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   Thanks Fel. I should have added more text:
   I'd like to keep spiders out of forum category 3, but not forum category 4 or 5.

   Specifically I'd like that meta tag to be written to forum category 3 page that lists the threads, and all threads that are in forum category 3.
4. • 
   • fel64
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   So you need to modify the if( ... ) statement to look for those properties. What are you having a problem with?
5. • 
   • intellivision
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   <?php
   /*
   Plugin Name: noindex stuff
   */
   
   add_action('bb_head', 'my_add_noindex_tag');
   function my_add_noindex_tag() {
   	if( is_forum(3) ) {
   		echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />';
   		}
   	else {
   		echo '<!-- please do index -->';
   	}
   }
   ?>

   I modified it a bit to see both conditions... but neither are showing up in my source. Any thoughts?

   I did see it in the plugins control panel, and activate it.
6. • 
   • Simon99
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   is_forum() doesn't take any arguments, so I believe you'd have to use the global var $forum, like so:

   <?php
   /*
   Plugin Name: noindex stuff
   */
   
   add_action('bb_head', 'my_add_noindex_tag');
   function my_add_noindex_tag() {
   	global $forum;
   	if($forum->forum_id == 3) {
   		echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />';
   		}
   	else {
   		echo '<!-- please do index -->';
   	}
   }
   ?>
7. • 
   • intellivision
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   Hmmm still not working. Something's strange because even this doesn't show:
   

   <?php
   /*
   Plugin Name: test stuff
   */
   
   add_action('bb_head', 'my_add_test_tag');
   function my_add_test_tag() {
   	echo '<!-- testing here -->';
   }
   ?>

   I've tried activating/deactivating these plugins, and I've tried 2 browsers to ensure it's not cache I'm seeing. Grr.
8. • 
   • fel64
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   bb_head appears to be a filter.
9. • 
   • Simon99
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   Using latest trunk code, but bb_head works fine in combo with add_action here.
10. • 
    • Olaf
    • Member

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    Hi just tried this code but therer is "is_forum_category()" function in my install (ver 0.83).

    Is this a new one for the next version?

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