Disallowing search engine's crawler access

How to set our site disallow for search engine's crawler access when it should not be picked up by Google yet.

Written by Tomohyco Tsunoda
Updated over a week ago

Note: This setting is up to search engines to honour this request.

Step 1

Login to Shifter Dashboard

https://go.getshifter.io/

Step 2

Start WordPress and login.

Step 3

Navigate [Reading] from [Settings] menu

Step 4

Enable [Discourage search engines from indexing this site] under [Search Engine Visibility Search Engine Visibility] section.

Step 5

Stop WordPress, generate an artifact then deploy.

Your site no longer accessible by search engine's crawler.

Never forget disable [Discourage search engines from indexing this site], then generate and deploy a new artifact, if you want to allow crawler's access.