title: Wordpress remove Robots Meta Tag noindex
body: <p>were experiencing a strange issue with a wordpress sites meta robots tag. All pages have the following meta tag and we cant seem to remove it</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>We have unchecked "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" in Settings > Reading > Search Engine Visibility but it does nothing.</p>
  
  <p>We are using the Yoast SEO plugin but even when this is disabled the   still remains. In fact, we have tried disabling all plugins to check nothing was interfering with it.</p>
  
  <p>We have setup our Robots.txt file as follows: </p>
  
  <pre><code>User-agent: *
  Disallow: 
  Sitemap: http://speysidedistillery.co.uk/sitemap.xml
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Im not sure if the Robots.txt takes precedent over the robots meta tag or not and there doesn't seem to be a definitive answer, as far as i can gather the most restrictive one will take precedent i.e in our case the meta tag.</p>
  
  <p>This is mainly giving us issues with our google listing with the warning "A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt" appearing instead of our sites description.</p>
  
  <p>If worse comes to worst we can edit the wp_no_robots function in wp-includes/general-templates.php but would prefer to resolve this without editing the wp core files.</p>
  
  <p>Any light anyone could shone on this would be great as we are at a loss, cheers</p>
  
  <p>The site can be found at <a href="http://speysidedistillery.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://speysidedistillery.co.uk/</a></p>