New Default Robots Guidance for Block Themes
A handbook note tells you when a noindex on an archive is a feature and when it is a support ticket. Query loops made this urgent.
by Sam Calder·July 15, 2026·0 Comments
Block themes can emit archives you never meant to publish. The new robots guidance is a checklist: which templates should speak to crawlers, and which should stay quiet.
SEO plugins that still guess from a metabox will be wrong. The template is the source of truth. Treat it that way.
