That’s a surprise, indeed! Can you access the SEO settings page?
There, you’ll find the toggles under the “Robots Meta Settings” meta box. Make sure you untick the indexing, following, and archiving settings there for “Categories — category“.
I believe a bug caused this issue–which we fixed in v4.1. Perhaps this was leftover from before the upgrade?
When you disable a post type, its robots-exclusion settings no longer get automatically rendered as checked by accident.
We used to call these settings “Disable SEO for Post Types”; you can now find those toggles under “General Settings > Exclusions”.
Before, if you toggled disabling of SEO for any post type, the robots-settings were automatically ticked too due to a number to boolean conversion error. Since v4.1 this can no longer happen.
I’m sorry for the trouble it has caused. 🙁
Thanks Sybre
Actually I just fixed it by going back into SEO settings and saving/flushing cache which gave me all green lights!
Perhaps the latest WP update which is auto on my site?
I’m not sure! We did move the old options to the new ones–but if that process would end up stagnant (e.g., in cache), that shouldn’t have caused it to default with “noindex/noarchive/nofollow” enabled. Curious. I’ll investigate!
Quick update: I just found the cause.
When we migrated the options, we checked for 0 and 1 for the taxonomies and transported those as-is.
The plugin, however, sees 0 and 1 both as true because it merely checks whether it exists–not its actual value.
Re-saving the SEO settings should rectify the issue immediately.
In the next update, this issue will be fixed both pro-and retroactively.
I have a similar problem only with tags, globally I do not have a check mark for noindex, nofollow tags (checkboxes disabled), but tags are created by default in noindex, nofollow format. What do i do?
The SEO Framework 4.1.1
The SEO Framework – Extension Manager 2.4.0
Thanks
Hi @md_hedji,
When you hover over the SEO Bar’s ‘I’, you’ll learn more about why TSF assessed that the robots-meta tag is applying noindex. It’s most likely because the newly created tags have no posts attached to them: it’s not a great user experience, presenting empty archives.
You can overwrite this behavior on a per-tag basis. You can select “index” in the drop-down selection for robots, either via quick-edit or the tag’s edit screen. TSF will warn you about this choice, however.
Once you start adding posts to the tags, TSF will start indexing them by default, too — provided that you haven’t disabled indexing via the global SEO settings.
If you have more questions about TSF, please open a new topic. Thank you!
https://tsf.fyi/support/wp/new
