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Remove the search engine block in WordPress

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Caution: This command changes the system. Understand what it does before you run it.

Adjust the values, the command updates live
user@server
wp option update blog_public 1 --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs

Equivalent to unchecking “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” under Settings, Reading. A common SEO mistake after a staging site goes live. Afterwards, the noindex in the header is gone and the virtual robots.txt no longer blocks crawlers.

Note: On a staging environment, deliberately keep the value at 0. Clear caches afterwards so the new meta tag is served.

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  • site not on google after relaunch
  • turn off discourage search engines
  • remove noindex after go live

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Change the siteurl and home addresses

$wp option update siteurl 'https://example.com' --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs && wp option update home 'https://example.com' --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
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Check whether WordPress blocks search engines

$wp option get blog_public --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
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Read the siteurl and home addresses

$wp option get siteurl --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs && wp option get home --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
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Change domain: replace the old domain in the database

$wp db export /var/www/vhosts/example.com/before-domain-change.sql --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs && wp search-replace '//old.example.com' '//example.com' --all-tables --skip-columns=guid --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
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Find the largest autoloaded options in WordPress

$wp option list --autoload=on --orderby=size_bytes --order=desc --fields=option_name,size_bytes --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs | head -n 20
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Regenerate permalinks and rewrite rules

$wp rewrite flush --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
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