How to add no-follow code to WooCommerce product attribute archives?

kernel_kate

So I have a WooCommerce store on Wordpress. I have product attributes set up, so that items can be classed, e.g. organic, gluten-free, and each of these attributes has a 'yes' and a 'no' page. When you click on one of these, you can see all products with that attribute. While this is useful for customers, it causes massive bloat from an SEO perspective in terms of total pages indexed. So I'm looking to add no-follow to these pages. Something...

Originally asked by Gwame on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

You can add custom code to the functions.php file, in your child theme , to add noindex meta-tags to specific product attributes. Here’s a basic example: add_action('wp_head', 'noindex_specific_attributes'); function noindex_specific_attributes() { if (is_tax('pa_organic') || is_tax('pa_glutenfree')) { echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex">'; } } add_action('wp_head', 'noindex_specific_attributes'); This hooks your custom function into the wp_head action, which runs in the <head> section of your site. is_tax('pa_organic') || is_tax('pa_glutenfree') This checks if the current page is a taxonomy archive page for either the pa_organic or pa_glutenfree attributes. You might need to change...

Full answer by Richard: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/78896817 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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