Prevent Google from indexing custom post types?

Question

I am using custom post types to add certain sections to my website. These post types are not meant to be treated like a blog, it's basically just an easy way for me to give the client access to managing certain sections, such as "reviews." Today I noticed that Google is indexing these custom post types and I was wondering how I can prevent that.

For instance, "reviews" is one of my custom post types and Google is indexing mywebsite.com/reviews as well as mywebsite.com/reviews/review, which looks terrible because there is no layout for it.

Is there any way to prevent Wordpress from even creating these sections? Thanks!

Answer 1

If you write code for registering custom post-type try adding these attributes

public => false, has_archive => false, publicly_queryable => false, query_var => false

Otherwise, set these options to false in plugin that you might be using.

Answer 2

Some functionality won't be working after using

publickly_queryable => false, query_var => false

It's enough to stop indexing by the search engines by using only

public => false, has_archive => false