Best discourage search engines plugins for WordPress
The most popular discourage search engines plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Search engines blocked warning leads with 500+ active installs, ahead of Discourage Search Engines (100+). All 2 plugins tagged “Discourage Search Engines” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
Installs aren’t everything: a recent release, a “Tested up to” that matches the current WordPress, and support threads that get resolved show a plugin is looked after. Open any plugin for its downloads, rank history and alternatives.
Research this niche or see all plugins.
Top 2 discourage search engines plugins
- 1.
Search engines blocked warningThe most installed discourage search engines plugin, with 500+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
Discourage Search Engines100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
All 2 plugins tagged “Discourage Search Engines”

Search engines blocked warning
Down in the last 7 days:16#9,102by apasionados9 months ago
Shows a warning in the WordPress administration header when the option "Search Engine Visibility: Discourage search engines from indexing this si …
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Discourage Search Engines
Up in the last 7 days:5#13,327by Flint1 year ago
Show a dashboard notification to remind you that 'Discourage Search Engines' is still enabled in the settings.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day