User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# WordPress core / build artifacts — no ranking value, wastes crawl budget
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/upgrade/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/

# Custom REST endpoints (inc/project-api.php) — data feeds for the front-end,
# not content pages; keep crawlers off them
Disallow: /wp-json/

# Internal search / low-value duplicate URLs
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /comments/feed/

# Media library stays crawlable (project galleries, team photos, etc.)
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

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