# robots.txt file for https://www.writing-skills.com
# Created by Tim Cawood on 26 June 2025

# === GENERAL RULES FOR ALL BOTS ===

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-register.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/

# Allow crawlers to access a specific file needed for some WordPress functions.
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php


# === AI CRAWLER RULES ===

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# === STANDARD SEARCH ENGINE RULES ===

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /


# === FILE LOCATIONS ===

Sitemap: https://www.writing-skills.com/sitemap_index.xml