Hide custom post type slug url from search engine [closed]

Question

I want to hide, let's say, example.com/services/washing ('Services' is the this is a custom post type) from the search engine and show a 401 error page. How do I?

Answer 1

Instead of showing a 401, why not just add the URL to a robots.txt and the search engine will ignore it from indexing.

You could also manually add to the headers a meta robots to noindex the page.

You could run this via .htaccess to redirect a page to somewhere else (or show 401), but that would show for both users and search engines.

Answer 2

You can do this with Yoast SEO plugin. After you install the plugin, go to:

Yoast SEO > Search Appearance > Content Types

Find your custom post type, then select "Off" on "Show [your_custom_post_type] in search results?". You can do this for each post type.

But I don't think it is recommanded to redirect to a 401 page. It could negatively impact your website's SEO. Otherwise, you can redirect to example.com.

Hope it helps!

Answer 3

You can completely remove a custom post type slug from the url with the following code, and then you can redirect that particular url to another page. 401 is used for authorization, and if your site has any type of Captcha system, it will work as usual on child CPT url.

function hide_slug( $post_link, $post, $leavename ) {

if ( 'CPT_NAME' != $post->post_type || 'publish' != $post->post_status ) {
    return $post_link;
}

$post_link = str_replace( '/' . $post->post_type . '/', '/', $post_link );

return $post_link; }
add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'hide_slug', 10, 3 );