How exactly are you setting up your home page? I think the problem is with it having unwanted pagination in first place and not that pagination being indexed. In general robots.txt file is good way to prevent indexing in bulk. I think it would be following directive in your case (please test it so it … Read more
The E flag is being used for LiteSpeed as opposed to ENV for Apache. Where did you get this from? The LiteSpeed docs appear to show that LiteSpeed is the same as Apache in this respect and require env=, not E=, on the Header directive in order to conditionally set the HTTP response header based … Read more
Ooohhh you mean “pagination” pages. Gotcha now! It’s hard to say for sure(I know I know), but at first glance it looks like this block of code would be what you’re after: if ( $wp_query->query_vars[‘paged’] && $wp_query->query_vars[‘paged’] > 1 && isset( $options[‘noindex-subpages’] ) && $options[‘noindex-subpages’] ) { $robots[‘index’] = ‘noindex’; $robots[‘follow’] = ‘follow’; } }
Thought this was a great question so I went digging. In default-filters.php on line 208 there’s add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘noindex’, 1); as of WordPress 4.1. The noindex() function in turn checks to see if you have set blog_public option to 0. If you have, it calls wp_no_robots() which is simply: function wp_no_robots() { echo “<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,follow” … Read more