I imagine everyone is familiar with the ‘Privacy’ setting in WordPress (version 3.0). Located under the settings menu of the WordPress administration area, the setting sits often untouched; in part because there aren’t many options accompanied with it and becuase many do not understand exactly what it is doing.
So what are those privacy settings for and what do they actually do?
The simple answer is that these settings effect the META information your web site (if your site doesn’t have a robots.txt). By selecting “I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors” you’re telling WordPress to put “< …


