Title: Show a notice if a non-production site may be indexable by search engines
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: February 23, 2021
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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 3. Show a notice if a non-production site may be indexable by search engines

# Show a notice if a non-production site may be indexable by search engines

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 23 February 2021

16:58:29 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

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Creates an admin notice indicating the site may be indexable by search engines if`
blog_public` option is `1`

![Screen Shot 2020-05-15 at 2 59 44 PM](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/
251183/82099668-c0bf4500-96bc-11ea-98ac-aa3a70768c31.png)

Additionally, the notice does not show if:

 * the current user does not have `manage_options`
 * the notice has been dismissed (saved in options, reset if blog_public is resaved
   to `1`)
 * the home url ends in `.go-vip.co` or `.go-vip.net`

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1597