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My site is private, and I do not want search engines to access it or bots to know the file structure. I followed the instructions in post-41787 (harveysamui) - I disabled the User Profile Page indexing options in Dashboard > Forums > Settings > Features admin page, and I added the text below to functions.php, then deleted the cache:
function custom_wpforo_seo_options($options){
$options['topics_sitemap'] = 0;
return $options;
}
add_filter('wpforo_seo_options', 'custom_wpforo_seo_options');
Neither of these worked; I still have complete access to the sitemaps. I am running wpForo 1.7.0. Any other options?
Thank you.
Hi @chs2019,
Please follow this support topic: https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/uploads-get-indexed-by-search-engines/#post-35509