Your robots.txt is a real file, written by your SEO plugin
Not a problem — but it means edits made anywhere else will not take effect.
What we observed
There is a real robots.txt file in your site’s root folder, and it has the signs of being written
by an SEO plugin’s file editor — Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO or SEOPress. The plugin wrote it
deliberately.
Nothing is broken. This page exists so you know where your robots rules live.
Why it matters
Most WordPress sites have no robots.txt file at all; WordPress generates one on request. Yours is different: a file exists, so the file is what gets served, and WordPress’s generation step is skipped entirely.
The practical consequence is that the plugin that wrote the file is the only place that can change it. Robots settings in any other plugin — including this one — cannot affect it. That is worth knowing before you go looking for a setting that appears to do nothing.
What to do about it
Nothing, unless you want to change your robots rules. When you do, edit them in the plugin that owns the file — usually under a “Tools” or “File editor” section — or edit the file directly.
If you would rather WordPress generated it again, delete the file. Your plugin’s robots rules then take over immediately, generated by WordPress instead of read from a file. Copy anything worth keeping first.
How to check where you stand
curl -s https://example.com/robots.txtCompare that to what the owning plugin’s editor shows. They should be identical. If they are not, something else is changing it along the way — see What your site serves is not what WordPress generates.