[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33156: Allow admin-ajax crawling

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#33156: Allow admin-ajax crawling
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 Reporter:  joostdevalk            |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                 |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General                |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                 |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion has-patch  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by johnbillion):

 * keywords:  needs-patch => 2nd-opinion has-patch


Comment:

 AJAX needs to go via wp-admin for authenticated requests. A front-end AJAX
 handler was attempted in #12400 but pulled out.

 What might be the downside of allowing `admin-ajax.php` to be crawled? Any
 chance of unwanted content appearing in SERPs?

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33156#comment:9>
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