# Southern Chick Journal robots.txt
# Canonical host: https://www.southernchickjournal.com/

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Keep crawlers out of admin/login/system endpoints, while allowing public assets.
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Disallow: /*&replytocom=

# WordPress journal install.
Disallow: /journal/wp-admin/
Allow: /journal/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /journal/wp-login.php
Disallow: /journal/xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /journal/wp-json/
Disallow: /journal/?s=
Disallow: /journal/*?s=
Disallow: /journal/search/
Disallow: /journal/*?replytocom=
Disallow: /journal/*&replytocom=

# Public media and front-end assets should stay crawlable/renderable.
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/
Allow: /journal/wp-content/uploads/
Allow: /journal/wp-content/themes/
Allow: /journal/wp-content/plugins/

# Block common AI training / bulk scraping bots without blocking normal search indexing.
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

# Archive + WordPress + RSS feed sitemap endpoints.
Sitemap: https://www.southernchickjournal.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.southernchickjournal.com/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.southernchickjournal.com/journal/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.southernchickjournal.com/feed/