Description
Search Snippet Control for Blocks adds a toggle within Advanced settings of supported blocks to add a data-nosnippet tag, which excludes that content from search snippets and AI answers. The plugin adds the toggle to these blocks:
- Group
- Columns
- Column
- Cover
- Media & Text
- Buttons
- Button
The switch is on by default, which leaves the block’s normal HTML unchanged. Turning it off adds data-nosnippet directly to the block’s existing div, section, or span root during server rendering.
The plugin is designed to be as lightweight as possible and never adds a wrapper. Paragraphs, Headings, Images, Lists, and other content blocks can be placed inside a Group or other supported block when an editor wants to exclude that section from search snippets and AI-generated answers.
Note that adding data-nosnippet does not change indexing or organic search visibility – only the wrapped contents’ eligibility for inclusion in snippets and AI answers.
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Installation
- Upload the
search-snippet-control-for-blocksdirectory to/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate Search Snippet Control for Blocks in WordPress.
- Select a supported block and open its Advanced settings.
- Turn off “Allow search engines to use this content in search snippets and AI-generated answers? Does not affect normal indexing.” and save the post.
FAQ
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I can’t see the control for some blocks (Paragraph, Image etc.)
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To avoid compatibility and/or layout issues, the toggle is only available on blocks that already use compatible
div,sectionorspanelements, where thedata-nosnippettag can be added. You can simply put the content you wish to exclude within a supported layout block such as a Group. -
Does this have an impact on SEO?
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No, applying
data-nosnippetto page elements expressly only removes their eligibility for inclusion in search snippets and AI answers. All page content is still crawled and indexed as normal. -
My content is still being included in AI answers! Why?
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Sometimes other plugins may output the entire page contents in the articleBody schema field without taking into account visibility controls, which renders on-page
data-nosnippettags useless. Unfortunately there’s nothing we can do about this – we would recommend contacting the plugin author and asking them to add support fordata-nosnippetexclusions.
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Contributors & Developers
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Changelog
0.2.0
- Make the search-engine usage control on by default and add data-nosnippet only when it is turned off.
- Use one stable toggle label and help message in both states.
- Identify We Are All Connected as the plugin author and add initial WordPress.org directory metadata.
- Rename the plugin to Search Snippet Control for Blocks and use search-engine-neutral interface copy.
- Confirm compatibility with WordPress 7.1.
0.1.1
- Verify the expected wp-block-* root class before applying data-nosnippet, preventing accidental targeting of markup prepended by another renderer.
- Reject non-string block content defensively before HTML processing.
- Guard against double loading with class and constant checks.
- Adopt the current ToggleControl margin convention in the editor control.
0.1.0
- Initial development release.
- Support seven core container blocks with direct-root rendering.
- Do not add wrappers or apply ancestor-based exclusions.