Best noindex plugins for WordPress
The most popular noindex plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. noindex SEO leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of Noindex Pages (2K+) and Visibility (600+). All 45 plugins tagged “noindex” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 noindex plugins
- 1.noindex SEO
The most installed noindex plugin, with 3K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.Noindex Pages
2K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 6 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 3.
Visibility600+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, updated 8 hours ago.
- 4.
No-Indexer500+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 5.Simple SEO
400+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 6.Easy Noindex And Nofollow
300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4.
- 7.
Duplicate Content Cure200+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 8.
PRyC WP200+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 months ago.
- 9.
Unlisted Posts100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 10.NoIndex NoFollow All Posts
100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
All 45 plugins tagged “noindex”
noindex SEO
Down in the last 7 days:7#3,971by ROBOTSTXT.es2 months ago
Control search engine indexing with robots directives using HTML meta tags or HTTP headers.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 24/day
Noindex Pages
Down in the last 7 days:15#4,768by radgh10 years ago
Ask search engines not to index individual pages by checking an option in the publish post box.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.5(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Visibility
Up in the last 7 days:196#8,098by Fernando Telladotoday
Lightweight Free WordPress SEO: meta tags, schema, Open Graph, redirects, robots, LLMS, MD, sitemap. No bloat, no tracking. Visible to search and AI.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 86/day

No-Indexer
Down in the last 7 days:12#8,943by Rahul Mondal2 years ago
Add a checkbox in page, post, and custom type settings to instruct search engines not to index the content, excluding it from robots.txt and sitemap.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Simple SEO
Up in the last 7 days:36#9,384by Pär Thernström1 month ago
The SEO basics: a title, a description and a "don't index" checkbox for every page. Small, fast, and no upsell banners all over your admin.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Easy Noindex And Nofollow
Down in the last 7 days:2#10,233by Ivan Kristianto15 years ago
Easily add Noindex and Nofollow to post, page, search and category page.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Duplicate Content Cure
Up in the last 7 days:4#11,304by Badi Jones11 years ago
Duplicate content cure is a simple plugin that improves SEO by preventing search engines from indexing pages that contain duplicate content.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

PRyC WP
Down in the last 7 days:69#11,970by Patryk5 months ago
The plugin adds a "noindex" field in the edit window for pages, posts and custom post types (CPT), which, when selected - after saving, adds …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Unlisted Posts
Up in the last 7 days:450#14,237by Andy Feliciotti27 days ago
Add an "Unlisted" toggle to posts and pages. Unlisted content stays viewable by link but is hidden from archives, feeds, search and search engines.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
NoIndex NoFollow All Posts
Up in the last 7 days:87#16,311by amodoke9 years ago
This plugin lets you Noindex Nofollow All Posts in a category.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Noindex Links
#17,773by Flector1 year ago
Плагин заключает любые ссылки в комментариях в теги <noindex></noindex>.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Noindex Password-Protected Posts
#18,913by Kyle Gilman10 years ago
Disables search-engine indexing for all password-protected posts.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Noindex Parameters
#19,227by منصة ناس للحلول الرقمية10 months ago
Prevent search engines from indexing URLs with specific parameters. Compatible with Rank Math, Yoast SEO, and WordPress core.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple SEO Noindex Toggle
Up in the last 7 days:114#19,392by Saidul Islam Bokul4 days ago
Exclude any post, page, or archive from search engines with one toggle — plus a built-in verifier that proves the tag is really live.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Noindex by Path
Up in the last 7 days:86#19,682by Marcin Kijak9 years ago
Ask search engines not to index individual pages by a relative path - which means you can set every url no matter it is a page, category listing or an …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Category Color Picker
Down in the last 7 days:74#19,885by sarap4221 month ago
Add a color picker to WordPress categories and reflect category colors in post listings and links. Includes per-category noindex settings.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
noindex Past Events for The Events Calendar
Down in the last 7 days:22#20,904by Room 34 Creative Services, LLC5 months ago
Automatically add a "noindex" meta tag to The Events Calendar's detail pages for past events, to prevent them from appearing in search engines.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Nofollow External/Outbound Link (SEO)
Down in the last 7 days:64#29,482by Sumit Malviya5 months ago
Automatically add rel="nofollow" to external and outbound links to improve SEO, protect link equity, and control outbound link behavior.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Noindex/Nofollow links
Up in the last 7 days:783#29,706noindex-archives17 years ago
This plugin can add rel="noindex,nofollow" to archive, tag, and category links. You can configure exactly which links are given which attrib …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Der Donat Easy SEO
Up in the last 7 days:401#29,798by martindonat29 days ago
Simple SEO plugin for WordPress: SEO titles, meta descriptions, Open Graph previews, noindex, canonical URLs, XML sitemap and breadcrumbs.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Hack The SEO
#30,600by Hack The SEO4 days ago
Connect Claude to your site. See which AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) read your pages. Free, runs next to your SEO plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 34/day

MetaMax
Up in the last 7 days:377#30,968by eoutvik10 years ago
MetaMax automagically inserts meta tags in your html to make your site more SEO friendly.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bare Bones SEO
#32,191by charltondigital1 month ago
A minimal SEO plugin for developers and agencies who want direct technical control without the overhead.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Axle Staging Guard
#52,567by Aryan Jasala3 days ago
Stop staging sites from emailing real customers and showing up in Google. Colours the admin bar so nobody edits the wrong copy.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 71/day

HTTP Authentication site lock
Up in the last 7 days:9,804#53,650by Affilipoint3 years ago
Restrict your site from the public while it's in development, staging or maintenance mode.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LH SEO Meta Tags
Up in the last 7 days:19,333#53,795by shawfactor7 years ago
Basic SEO meta tags, decisions not options
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Search Exclude Categories and Tags
Up in the last 7 days:14,342#54,768by WP Academic7 years ago
License: GPLv2 or later WordPress plugin to block category and tag pages from search engines
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Deindicizzazione Automatica Articoli
Up in the last 7 days:7,042#55,541by I-Creativi3 days ago
Automatically noindex and archive old posts, pages and custom post types after a set number of days. Works with Rank Math, Yoast SEO or no SEO plugin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

IndexSweep
#55,878by cuyava2 months ago
Find the junk URLs wasting your crawl budget, fix them in one click, roll back anything. The fixer for "Crawled - currently not indexed".
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SEO Sentry
Down in the last 7 days:3,675#59,520by SEO Sentry5 days ago
Get an alert when a page goes noindex, or its title, canonical, schema, robots.txt or sitemap changes. Includes an SEO health check.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

VDL Search Visibility Scanner
Up in the last 7 days:7,347#62,331by VaultDevLabs23 days ago
Check whether WordPress pages are technically discoverable with noindex, robots.txt, canonical, sitemap, redirect, and status-code checks.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

PochiCheck XML SiteMap
Up in the last 7 days:3,124#63,929by SatoruHatano2 months ago
Ultra-lightweight XML sitemap generator with per-post noindex control and automated rules.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Seofable Content Visibility Audit
Down in the last 7 days:10,719#64,642by seofable1 month ago
Finds the posts Google cannot see: noindex, thin content, missing meta description, stale pages. Read-only, runs locally, next to Yoast and Rank Math.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
360 Orbit Staging Guard
#65,383by Jörg Liwa8 days ago
Keeps a staging copy from doing anything real: blocks outgoing calls, catches emails, pauses scheduled tasks, keeps search engines away.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 31/day
Content Signal
#65,543by serhiivasyliev2 months ago
Free SEO audit for WordPress content: find noindex risk, missing metadata, thin content, and orphan pages. Runs locally, no account needed.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
AI-Only Pages
#65,707by tommyoz126 months ago
Mark any page as AI-only. Hidden from search engines, optimized for AI crawlers, listed in /llms-index.txt. Includes Token Diet and global settings.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

FacetFence Product Filters
Up in the last 7 days:943#65,841by Hamidreza Rezaei4 months ago
Protect WooCommerce filtered URLs from crawl floods with noindex/canonical controls, signed cookies, rate limits, logs, and rollback.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Beplus Search Visibility
Up in the last 7 days:1,683#67,863by rimbeplus22 days ago
Hide posts, pages, or entire post types from your site search, and noindex them for search engines — sitemap included.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuildsByLuke SEO Flight Recorder
Down in the last 7 days:13,964#68,483by Luke W17 days ago
Alerts you when a page goes noindex or its title, meta, canonical or schema changes - and names the update that did it. An SEO audit log.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Noindex paged OrgV
Down in the last 7 days:343#69,516by WebDev Solutions1 year ago
Простой плагин для WordPress, который запрещает поисковым системам индексировать страницы пагинации.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Jagelon Guard
#71,298by securplan2 days ago
Find SEO problems before they cost you visitors. Free one-click SEO check, Google titles and company schema. No account needed.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 12/day

Auto NoIndex for Thin Content
Down in the last 7 days:5,519#72,519by Debjit Das8 months ago
Automatically adds noindex meta tag to posts or pages with thin content based on minimum word or character count.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BuildWithHumza Go Live Check
#73,398by Mohammad Humza1 month ago
Twenty launch checks in one report: noindex, a blocking robots.txt, a staging address, plain http, debug output and leftover content.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Web Plura Site Discovery Checker
#74,415by Web Plura4 days ago
Check WordPress indexing readiness, robots.txt, sitemaps, noindex, canonical signals, schema hints, and homepage discovery signals.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day