Exclude non indexable post types and robots noindex posts

[pls78]

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Summary

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Test instructions

Test instructions for the acceptance test before the PR gets merged

This PR can be acceptance tested by following these steps:

• Visit YOU-SITE-URL/wp-json/yoast/v1/schema-aggregator/get-xml
  • Take not of the endpoints returned
• Go to Yoast SEO -> Settings
  • In the Content types section, select a post type
  • Toggle Show events in search results to off for that post type
• Clear your site transients
• Visit YOU-SITE-URL/wp-json/yoast/v1/schema-aggregator/get-xml again
  • Verify the post type Show events in search results is set to off doesn't appear in the endpoints list
• Visit the missing endpoint
  • Verify you get a 404 response stating as follows:

    {
      "code":"wpseo_post_type_not_indexable",
      "message":"The post type \"EXCLUDED-POST-TYPE-NAME" is excluded from search results.",
      "data":
        {
          "status":404
       }
    }
  

Relevant test scenarios

• Changes should be tested with the browser console open
• Changes should be tested on different posts/pages/taxonomies/custom post types/custom taxonomies
• Changes should be tested on different editors (Default Block/Gutenberg/Classic/Elementor/other)
• Changes should be tested on different browsers
• Changes should be tested on multisite

Test instructions for QA when the code is in the RC

• QA should use the same steps as above.

QA can test this PR by following these steps:

Impact check

This PR affects the following parts of the plugin, which may require extra testing:

Other environments

• This PR also affects Shopify. I have added a changelog entry starting with [shopify-seo], added test instructions for Shopify and attached the Shopify label to this PR.
• This PR also affects Yoast SEO for Google Docs. I have added a changelog entry starting with [yoast-doc-extension], added test instructions for Yoast SEO for Google Docs and attached the Google Docs Add-on label to this PR.

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• I have tested this code to the best of my abilities.
• During testing, I had activated all plugins that Yoast SEO provides integrations for.
• I have added unit tests to verify the code works as intended.
• If any part of the code is behind a feature flag, my test instructions also cover cases where the feature flag is switched off.
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Package	Operation	From	To	About
wpackagist-plugin/easy-digital-downloads	add	-	dev-trunk	- - License: UNLICENSED
wpackagist-plugin/woocommerce	add	-	dev-trunk	- - License: UNLICENSED

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[pls78]

Duplicated PR by mistake.