# Keep Filtered and Sorted Shop Pages Out of Search Engines

> Adds noindex to shop pages that have sorting, price or attribute filters in the URL, so search engines index your real category pages instead of thousands of variations.

- Type: PHP
- Runs: Run everywhere
- Category: [WooCommerce](https://wpide.com/library/category/woocommerce/)
- Requires: WooCommerce
- Tags: woocommerce, seo, robots, catalog
- Author: WPIDE Team
- Installs: 0
- Updated: 2026-10-28
- Page: https://wpide.com/library/woo-noindex-filtered-shop/

## Code

```php
add_filter( 'wp_robots', function ( $robots ) {
    if ( ! function_exists( 'is_woocommerce' ) || ! ( is_shop() || is_product_taxonomy() ) ) {
        return $robots;
    }

    foreach ( array_keys( $_GET ) as $key ) { // phpcs:ignore WordPress.Security.NonceVerification
        if ( in_array( $key, array( 'orderby', 'min_price', 'max_price', 'rating_filter', 'query_type' ), true ) || 0 === strpos( (string) $key, 'filter_' ) ) {
            $robots['noindex'] = true;
            $robots['follow']  = true;
            unset( $robots['index'] );
            break;
        }
    }

    return $robots;
} );
```

## Notes

Links on those pages are still followed, and normal shop, category and paginated pages are not affected.

## How to use it

Install the free WPIDE plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpide/), find "Keep Filtered and Sorted Shop Pages Out of Search Engines" in its snippet library and add it in one click; or create a new PHP snippet in WPIDE (or any code snippets plugin) and paste the code above. More snippets: https://wpide.com/library/