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Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63375

The "Discourage search engines" setting can be easily overlooked in the "At A Glance widget", potentially causing SEO issues during site launches. The Site Health report provides another visibility point for this critical setting.
This PR adds a new Site Health test to make site owners more aware when search engines are discouraged from indexing their sites.

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  • Adds a new Site Health test under the "Privacy" category to check if search engines are discouraged
  • Displays "recommended" status when search engines are discouraged, with clear messaging to review settings
  • Provides a direct link to the Reading Settings page to change this option

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@himanshupathak95 himanshupathak95 changed the title Admin: Add persistent visibility warnings when search engines are discouraged Admin: Add search engine visibility test to Site Health May 8, 2025
@himanshupathak95 himanshupathak95 force-pushed the fix/63375-improve-visibility-seo-warning branch from c5d5e0d to ef07367 Compare May 8, 2025 09:36
@himanshupathak95 himanshupathak95 force-pushed the fix/63375-improve-visibility-seo-warning branch from ef07367 to d823943 Compare July 31, 2025 16:54
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himanshupathak95 commented Jul 31, 2025

This is how the changed 'info' dashicon color looks like -

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A commit was made that fixes the Trac ticket referenced in the description of this pull request.

SVN changeset: 60529
GitHub commit: 6d58651

This PR will be closed, but please confirm the accuracy of this and reopen if there is more work to be done.

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