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Bulk NoIndex & NoFollow Toolkit

by madfishdigital · SEO

Bulk set the noindex / nofollow robots tag for posts, pages, categories, and author URLs. Easily identify thin content and noindex it fast.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
80 Health · B
Maintenance 89/100
Rating quality 77/100
Support 70/100

80 health vs 64 average across 1,223 SEO plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

91 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 61/100
Listing tuning 100/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+29% vs prior 30d
12Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

471

now · peak 1.9K

46830d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Bulk NoIndex & NoFol · #4470 you TextBulker (IA Redac · #4439 iGen SEO · #7180 SEO Rocket Integrati · #14294

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.3Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

234per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

1

releases in the last 12 months

6mo ago

latest release · v2.30

4

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.30 · 6mo ago2.20 · 1.4y ago2.15 · 1.9y ago2.16 · 1.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 63% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.30 63%
v2.20 20%
v2.16 7.6%
Older / other versions 8.9%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2021-05-08 · 1,425 observations

2KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
2.30
Last updated
6mo ago
Added
2020-05-06 · 6 yrs old
Requires WP
4.1
Tested up to
6.9.7
Requires PHP
5.6

Recent reviews

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  1. Ivcata
    1.1y ago

    Great plugin. It helped me NoIndex and NoFollow about 200 pages. Product pages that only paid members of the site have access to, but they also appeared in the sitemap (because I forgot to NoIndex and NoFollow them when creating), which is not good. This plugin probably saved me about 2 days of manual deindexing work. Big thanks to its developers.

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  2. Krzysztof
    1.3y ago

    Hi. It seems to be doing its job. I am happy with it. Thanks 🙂 [Bulk NoIndex & NoFollow Toolkit]

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  3. Kissington
    2.6y ago

    The idea is good but the developer forgot to include bulk indexing/un-indexing for categories and tags. I installed this plugin looking for a way to index categories and tags which had been no-indexed in the past by a SEO plugin I deleted.

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  4. doctorlai
    2.8y ago

    Just wondering where the status of the posts are stored, If I deactivated the plugin, will the existing posts stay the same status?

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  5. caramella1123
    4.1y ago

    I have tried this plugin in 2 of my website and is working well with WordPress 6.0.1 and i have Yoast plugin, and in my second website I have AIO SEO plugin They have fabulous customer service!!! Thanks for the amazing job This topic was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by caramella1123. This topic was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by caramella1123.

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  6. amcguire2010
    4.3y ago

    I love lightweight plugins that get straight down to work! Does nothing more than it needs to, but really good at what it does. Perfect.

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  7. crzyhrse
    5.5y ago

    This is working really nicely for me, and really saved me a lot of messing around and time… Very simple and Easy.. So happy I came upon it… A really really nice bonus is that it is very much synced with Yoast SEO… It picked up some noindexes and nofollows already set through Yoast, let me reset some of them, and then could see the new ones I set with this plugin were being picked up in the Yoast settings on individual pages… And best of all, when this plugin is deactivated the settings in Yoast stay… Don’t know what might happen If I delete this plugin but I maybe will stay(?), and in any case this is nice simply if I want to keep it deactivated until and as needed…

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  8. diepocket
    5.7y ago

    This seems to be a hobby project. My site crashed, hope you will remove your plugin from WordPress!

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 2.30 Release Date: March 8th, 2025 Added dedicated Authors tab to manage NoIndex and NoFollow directives for author archive URLs Author archive support includes full Rank Math sync via rank_math_robots user meta; Yoast and AI 2.30
  2. Version 2.20 Release Date: April 18, 2025 Added support for Rank Math, minor javascript bug fix when bulk selecting pages and categories, patched a potential vulnerability. 2.20
  3. Version 2.16 Release Date: September 24, 2024 Patched a potential vulnerability. 2.16
  4. Version 2.15 Release Date: August 24th, 2024 Minor bug fixes for filtering on searched categories, and displaying categories that have no posts. 2.15
  5. Version 2.10 Release Date: March 9th, 2024 Patched a potential vulnerability. 2.10
  6. Version 2.01 Release Date: February 14th, 2024 Added support for custom post types and categories 2.01

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

5 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2025-04-01 CVE-2025-31537 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.16 Patched in 2.20
  2. 2024-09-25 CVE-2024-8803 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.15 Patched in 2.16
  3. 2024-03-25 CVE-2024-29791 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.01 Patched in 2.10
  4. 2023-10-03 CVE-2023-45065 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 1.5 Patched in 1.5
  5. 2023-09-04 CVE-2023-41688 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.5 Patched in 1.51

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2024-06-01 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
  2. 2024-05-31 2K+ → 1K+ down after 4 days in tier
  3. 2024-05-27 1K+ → 2K+ up after 29 days in tier
  4. 2024-04-28 2K+ → 1K+ down after 24 days in tier
  5. 2024-04-04 1K+ → 2K+ up after 533 days in tier
  6. 2022-10-19 900+ → 1K+ up after 7 days in tier
  7. 2022-10-12 800+ → 900+ up

Competes with

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