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WP Robots Txt · Version history

WP Robots Txt changelog and version history

Latest version
1.3.6
Aug 24, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
10
since 2012
In the last year
1
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.0 or later

Releases each year

  • 20121 release
  • 20131 release
  • 20221 release
  • 20232 releases
  • 20243 releases
  • 20251 release
  • 20261 release

20261 release

  1. WP Robots Txt 1.3.6Latest

    • Compatibility with WordPress 7.1
    • Stop HTML-escaping robots.txt output (it is text/plain; this broke URLs with &)
    • Store sanitized plain text instead of esc_html() in the option
    • Decode legacy HTML entities from older saved content
    • Fix default Disallow/Allow paths on subdirectory installs (match core admin_url())
    • Guard sitemap defaults for WordPress 5.3–5.4 and when sitemaps are disabled
    • Use esc_url_raw() for the default Sitemap line
    • Warn when a physical robots.txt file will override this plugin
    • Keep saved rules when search engines are discouraged (WordPress does not add Disallow: /)
    • Harden admin and plugin-row markup escaping
    • Add ABSPATH guards on included files

20251 release

  1. WP Robots Txt 1.3.5

    • Compatibility with WordPress 6.8

20243 releases

  1. WP Robots Txt 1.3.4

    • Compatibility with WordPress 6.7

  2. WP Robots Txt 1.3.3

    • Add Line Break to allow appending more rules. Thanks @flberger

  3. WP Robots Txt 1.3.2

    • Add translation template

20232 releases

  1. WP Robots Txt 1.3.1

    • Compatibility with WordPress 6.4
    • WP Coding Standards compliant

  2. WP Robots Txt 1.3

    • Ensure Compatibility with WP v6.3
    • Increase PHP minimum required version

20221 release

  1. WP Robots Txt 1.2

    • Update the default robots.txt content
    • Include sitemap reference
    • Resolve code warnings/errors
    • WP Coding Standards compliant
    • Ensure Compatibility with WP v6

20131 release

  1. WP Robots Txt 1.1

    • Moved the settings field “officially” to the reading page
    • General code clean up

20121 release

  1. WP Robots Txt 1.0

    • Initial version

Questions about WP Robots Txt’s releases

What is the latest version of WP Robots Txt?

1.3.6, released on Aug 24, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.0 or later.

How often is WP Robots Txt updated?

One release in the last year. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from March 2012.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in WP Robots Txt’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.