# WordPress.com: AI Crawler Access

URL: https://www.onsomble.ai/guide/ai-discoverability-foundations/wordpress-com

Published: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-14

Check the relevant WordPress.com settings and give your website provider a specific issue to review.

Level: Beginner · Reading time: 4 minutes

## What you'll learn

- Find the public access settings relevant to WordPress.com
- Identify a specific issue to discuss with your website provider
- Retest the published website after a change


## What you can check yourself

1. Confirm the production site is set to **Public**.
2. Under **Settings → Reading**, ensure **Discourage search engines from indexing this site** is not enabled.
3. Open the important pages while logged out and confirm they display normally without a login or password.
4. Inspect the live `/robots.txt` rather than assuming the visibility setting is the only control.
5. Open `https://yourdomain.example/sitemap.xml` and confirm the important pages and posts appear.
6. Check any available page-level SEO controls for an unintended `noindex` instruction.
7. Publish changes and rerun the assessment.

## What healthy looks like

- The site is public and search discouragement is off.
- Important pages return normal public content.
- The live crawler rules do not block desired search and retrieval access.
- The WordPress.com sitemap contains the intended pages.

## Making a change

Use the assessment's specific finding to decide what needs changing. After the update, check the published page and robots.txt to confirm the settings have taken effect.

## Message for WordPress.com support

> Our crawler-access assessment found **[EXACT ISSUE]** on **[PAGE URL]** for **[CRAWLER NAME]**. The site is intended to remain public and available for current search and AI-assisted retrieval. Please confirm whether the WordPress.com privacy, search-visibility, robots, page-indexing or domain configuration is producing this result, and tell us the supported change.

## Official WordPress.com references

- [How search engines find your content](https://wordpress.com/support/courses/seo/how-search-engines-find-your-content/)
- [Find your sitemap](https://wordpress.com/support/sitemaps/)


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