User-agent: *               # general rules for robots of all search engines
Disallow: /cgi-bin          # service folder for storing server scripts
Disallow: /?                # all request parameters on the main
Disallow: /wp-              # all files WP: /wp-json/, /wp-includes, /wp-content/plugins

Disallow: *?s=              # site search
Disallow: *&s=          # site search
Disallow: /search/          # site search
Disallow: /author/          # author's archive
Disallow: /users/           # user archive

Disallow: /xmlrpc.php       # WordPress API file
Disallow: *utm*=            # utm
Disallow: *openstat=        # openstat tags
Allow: */uploads            # open the folder with files uploads
Allow: /*/*.js              # open js files
Allow: /*/*.css             # open css files
Allow: /wp-*.png            # allow indexing images
Allow: /wp-*.jpg            # allow indexing images
Allow: /wp-*.jpeg           # allow indexing images
Allow: /wp-*.gif            # allow indexing gifs
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php # allow ajax

# Specify one or more Sitemap.xml files. Google XML Sitemap Plugin automatically creates 2 sitemaps like in the example below.
Sitemap: https://sapphicreads.com/sitemap_index.xml