User-agent: *

# WordPress system files
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

# Technical pages and URL parameters
Disallow: /*?attachment_id=
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*/trackback/
Disallow: /*/embed/
Disallow: /files/
Disallow: /mail/

# Allow CSS/JS for rendering (Google needs these)
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*.js
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*.css
Allow: /wp-content/themes/*.js
Allow: /wp-content/themes/*.css
Allow: *.js
Allow: *.css

# AI TRAINING crawlers — blocked (does not affect normal search indexing).
# AI SEARCH / user-triggered bots that drive referral traffic are
# intentionally left ALLOWED: ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI),
# PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot (Anthropic).
# Gemini answer-grounding is governed by Google-Extended below.
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://was.media/sitemap_index.xml