# START WordPress robots.txt
User-agent: *

# Disallow crawling of the core admin and includes directories
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

# Allow crawlers to access AJAX functionality needed for rendering
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Disallow crawling of plugin, theme, and cache directories
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/

# Disallow crawling of specific files that can reveal version info
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt

# Disallow crawling of internal search results and other low-value pages
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/

# Path to the sitemap
Sitemap: https://donnellymech.com/sitemap.xml
# END WordPress robots.txt