# Block access to certain WordPress admin files
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/

# Allow access to specific admin-ajax.php for functionality
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Block WordPress login page
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-signup.php

# Block search result pages (to avoid duplicate content issues)
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/

# Allow all content directories
User-agent: *
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/


# Block other unnecessary files from being crawled
Disallow: /?author=
Disallow: */trackback/
Disallow: */comments/
Disallow: */comment-page-*/

# Specify sitemap location
Sitemap: https://www.ablogtohome.com/sitemap_index.xml

# Crawl-delay for Bingbot (useful for reducing server load)
User-agent: Bingbot
Crawl-delay: 10

# Block all crawlers from accessing specific sensitive files
User-agent: *
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt
Disallow: /wp-config.php
Disallow: /error_log
Disallow: /php.ini
Disallow: /phpinfo.php

# Ensure the site is optimized for performance and security while allowing necessary pages to be crawled effectively.