Add the "robots: noindex" meta to all pages inside a directory

[AnastasiaTWW]

I need to add the "robots: noindex" meta to all pages inside a directory docs/2.18. I've found this way https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/reference/#using-metadata-in-templates and also tried to use the meta plugin in the following format:

meta:

• name: robots
  content: noindex, nofollow

However, no success. Probably someone faced with the same or just knows how to do that?

[kamilkrzyskow]

Hello @AnastasiaTWW,
please provide a minimal example of what you're doing: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/guides/creating-a-reproduction/

The only thing I can suggest now is to check for typos in your main.html override of the extrahead block.
https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/customization/#extending-the-theme

mkdocs-material/src/templates/base.html

Lines 171 to 175 in ab5ccbe

	<!-- Custom front matter -->
	{% block extrahead %}{% endblock %}
	</head>

Also AFAIK the meta plugin doesn't add HTML <meta> tags to the source it just adds it the the front-matter of the page, so that way you can use it inside the main.html override.
Also I'm not sure how to understand "no success" here. Are you checking the generated HTML source for the new meta tags or do you check if the robots tag is detected with some tool 🤔

[squidfunk]

The canonical way to do this is to use theme extension, add the tags you want to add to extrahead, and then use that template with template. You can then set template with the meta plugin for an entire subsection of your docs.

[AnastasiaTWW]

Thank a lot! It worked