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PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User: What They Do and How to Control Them on WordPress
PerplexityBot is Perplexity’s search crawler: it vi…
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ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User Explained for WordPress Owners
ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s training crawler: it colle…
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Google-Extended vs Googlebot: Opt Out of Gemini Training Without Losing Search
Google-Extended is a robots.txt token that lets you opt y…
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GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User: What Each OpenAI Bot Does on Your Site
GPTBot is OpenAI’s training crawler: it gathers pag…
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robots.txt for AI Bots on WordPress: 4 Tested Templates and Where to Add Them
To add AI bot rules to robots.txt on WordPress, first che…
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AI Crawlers and WordPress: Which Bots to Allow, Block or Watch
AI crawlers that visit a WordPress site fall into three g…
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AI-Friendly Documentation: How to Make WordPress Help Docs Easy for AI to Use
AI-friendly documentation is help content an AI assistant…
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AI Shopping Agents and WooCommerce: Making Product Pages Readable
AI shopping agents on WooCommerce stores can only recomme…
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WordPress Abilities API and AI Connectors: What Site Owners Should Know
The WordPress Abilities API is a list of actions your sit…
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HTML to Markdown for LLMs: We Measured the Token Cost on 20 WordPress Pages
Giving an LLM the Markdown version of our WordPress artic…
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Does llms.txt Work? What the 2026 Data Shows About AI Citations
No, llms.txt doesn’t work in the way most people ho…
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Yoast llms.txt vs Rank Math vs AIOSEO: Settings and Output Compared
Yoast’s llms.txt feature is free, and so are Rank M…
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Cache Ignoring the Vary: Accept Header? Fix Markdown and HTML Mix-ups on WordPress
A cache serves the wrong version when one URL can return …
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llms.txt Validator Guide: How to Check and Test Your File
To validate an llms.txt file, check four things in order:…
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llms.txt vs llms-full.txt: Which Should a WordPress Site Publish?
Most WordPress sites only need llms.txt. Its bigger sibli…
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How to Serve Markdown to AI Agents from WordPress
To serve Markdown to AI agents, return a Markdown version…
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llms.txt Example Files for WordPress Sites (Checked Against the Spec)
A good llms.txt example is a short Markdown file with an …
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llms.txt for WordPress: Every Way to Add It, and Which One Wins
To add llms.txt to WordPress, switch it on in the SEO plu…
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Vulnerable and Abandoned Plugins: How to Check Before It’s Too Late
Vulnerable and abandoned plugins are the single biggest w…
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WordPress User Security: Audit Accounts, Roles and Passwords
A WordPress user audit means finding every administrator,…
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WordPress Security Checklist: 25 Steps to Harden Your Site
The most important WordPress security step is keeping eve…
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