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I have a staging site which I use to draft new features, changes and content to my actual website.
I don’t want this to get indexed, but I’m hoping for a solution a little easier than having to add the below to every page on my site:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
Can I do this in a way similar to how I added a password to the domain using a .htaccess file?
The robots.txt standard is meant for this. Example
Search engines will obey this, but of course the content will still be published (and probably more easily discoverable if you put the URL in the robots.txt), so password protection via .htaccess is an option, too.