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title: Blog
description: Keep up with our product updates and latest releases.
url: "https://skybootstrap.com/blog/"
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site: SkyBootstrap
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# Blog

Keep up with our product updates and latest releases.

- [PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User: What They Do and How to Control Them on WordPress](https://skybootstrap.com/perplexitybot/) — PerplexityBot is Perplexity's search crawler: it visits pages so Perplexity can surface and link them in its answers. It runs a second bot, Perplexity-User, which fetches a page…
- [ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User Explained for WordPress Owners](https://skybootstrap.com/claudebot/) — ClaudeBot is Anthropic's training crawler: it collects public web pages Anthropic may use to train Claude models. Anthropic runs two more bots with different jobs: Claude-SearchBot for search,…
- [Google-Extended vs Googlebot: Opt Out of Gemini Training Without Losing Search](https://skybootstrap.com/google-extended/) — Google-Extended is a robots.txt token that lets you opt your content out of training Google's Gemini models and out of grounding in Gemini Apps and Vertex AI. It…
- [GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User: What Each OpenAI Bot Does on Your Site](https://skybootstrap.com/gptbot/) — GPTBot is OpenAI's training crawler: it gathers pages OpenAI may use to train its AI models. OAI-SearchBot indexes pages for ChatGPT search, ChatGPT-User opens a page when someone…
- [robots.txt for AI Bots on WordPress: 4 Tested Templates and Where to Add Them](https://skybootstrap.com/robots-txt-ai-bots-wordpress/) — To add AI bot rules to robots.txt on WordPress, first check whether your site serves WordPress's virtual robots.txt or a physical file, then paste one of the AI…
- [AI Crawlers and WordPress: Which Bots to Allow, Block or Watch](https://skybootstrap.com/ai-crawlers-wordpress/) — AI crawlers that visit a WordPress site fall into three groups: training crawlers that collect pages for future AI models, AI search crawlers that index pages for an…
- [AI-Friendly Documentation: How to Make WordPress Help Docs Easy for AI to Use](https://skybootstrap.com/ai-friendly-documentation/) — AI-friendly documentation is help content an AI assistant or coding agent can fetch, read one section at a time and quote correctly. On WordPress, a few defaults work…
- [AI Shopping Agents and WooCommerce: Making Product Pages Readable](https://skybootstrap.com/ai-shopping-agents-woocommerce/) — AI shopping agents on WooCommerce stores can only recommend what they can read, and some of what a store outputs can be wrong or missing. On our test…
- [WordPress Abilities API and AI Connectors: What Site Owners Should Know](https://skybootstrap.com/wordpress-abilities-api/) — The WordPress Abilities API is a list of actions your site can perform for software and AI agents, from "get site info" to "change SEO settings", each with…
- [HTML to Markdown for LLMs: We Measured the Token Cost on 20 WordPress Pages](https://skybootstrap.com/html-to-markdown-for-llm/) — Giving an LLM the Markdown version of our WordPress articles instead of the HTML page cut the token cost by 83 to 92%. The full HTML page cost…
- [Does llms.txt Work? What the 2026 Data Shows About AI Citations](https://skybootstrap.com/does-llms-txt-work/) — No, llms.txt doesn't work in the way most people hope: in 2026 data, AI crawlers rarely fetch it and it shows no effect on AI citations. Of the…
- [Yoast llms.txt vs Rank Math vs AIOSEO: Settings and Output Compared](https://skybootstrap.com/yoast-llms-txt/) — Yoast's llms.txt feature is free, and so are Rank Math's and AIOSEO's. New to llms.txt? It's a plain Markdown index of your important pages, placed where AI tools…
- [Cache Ignoring the Vary: Accept Header? Fix Markdown and HTML Mix-ups on WordPress](https://skybootstrap.com/cache-vary-accept-header/) — A cache serves the wrong version when one URL can return two formats and the cache keeps only one copy. Once your WordPress site answers Accept: text/markdown with…
- [llms.txt Validator Guide: How to Check and Test Your File](https://skybootstrap.com/llms-txt-validator/) — To validate an llms.txt file, check four things in order: that /llms.txt loads as plain text, that the server labels it as UTF-8 text, that it follows the…
- [llms.txt vs llms-full.txt: Which Should a WordPress Site Publish?](https://skybootstrap.com/llms-full-txt/) — Most WordPress sites only need llms.txt. Its bigger sibling, llms-full.txt, pays off mainly for documentation, help centers and other reference sites, and only if you keep it small,…
- [How to Serve Markdown to AI Agents from WordPress](https://skybootstrap.com/serve-markdown-to-ai-agents/) — To serve Markdown to AI agents, return a Markdown version of a page when the request asks for one: with an Accept: text/markdown header, a .md URL or…
- [llms.txt Example Files for WordPress Sites (Checked Against the Spec)](https://skybootstrap.com/llms-txt-example/) — A good llms.txt example is a short Markdown file with an H1 title, a one-line summary, and H2 sections of described links, like this one: # Example Home…
- [llms.txt for WordPress: Every Way to Add It, and Which One Wins](https://skybootstrap.com/llms-txt-wordpress/) — To add llms.txt to WordPress, switch it on in the SEO plugin you already use, or upload a small text file to your site's root folder (usually public_html).…
- [Vulnerable and Abandoned Plugins: How to Check Before It&#8217;s Too Late](https://skybootstrap.com/vulnerable-wordpress-plugins/) — Vulnerable and abandoned plugins are the single biggest way WordPress sites get hacked: 91% of new WordPress vulnerabilities in 2025 were in plugins, and nearly half never got…
- [WordPress User Security: Audit Accounts, Roles and Passwords](https://skybootstrap.com/wordpress-user-security/) — A WordPress user audit means finding every administrator, removing accounts nobody uses, forcing strong passwords, and reviewing the application passwords that bypass two-factor login. The surprises on our…
- [WordPress Security Checklist: 25 Steps to Harden Your Site](https://skybootstrap.com/wordpress-security-checklist/) — The most important WordPress security step is keeping everything updated, because plugins are where 91% of new vulnerabilities are found and nearly half never get a fix before…