Title: md4AI Author: Erik Published: ନଭେମ୍ବର 18, 2025 Last modified: ମାର୍ଚ୍ଚ 24, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/md4ai/assets/icon.svg?rev=3415617) # md4AI By [Erik](https://profiles.wordpress.org/codekraft/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/md4ai.1.3.0.zip) [Live Preview](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/md4ai/?preview=1) * [Details](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/md4ai/#description) * [Reviews](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/md4ai/#reviews) * [Installation](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/md4ai/#installation) * [Development](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/md4ai/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/md4ai/) ## Description The **md4AI** plugin provides a powerful, multi-layered approach to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). ### 1. Automatic AI Bot Detection (Zero-Config) md4AI automatically detects requests from a comprehensive list of known AI agents( like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, etc.) and serves them a lightweight, on- the-fly Markdown version of your content instead of the standard HTML theme. This ensures a clean, parsable data feed for LLMs right out of the box. ### 2. Per-Post Custom Markdown (Metabox) The plugin adds a new metabox to your post and page editor, giving you full control over the AI-optimized version of your content. Serving an md version of the website is particular useful if your website has editors like Elementor / Beaver Builder/ Divi Builder / other div bloated editors because bots usually skips complex and too much nested content. * **Generate Custom Markdown:** Convert your post’s content into Markdown with one click. * **Manually Edit:** Modify and enhance the Markdown to be exactly as you want AIs to see it. * **(Optional) Enhance with AI:** If you also use the **[AI Services](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ai-services/)** plugin, you can use the “Generate with AI” button to automatically add FAQs, discussion questions, or key takeaways extracted from your post. * **Serve Enhanced Content:** When an AI bot visits this _specific post_, it will be served your new, custom-tailored Markdown version, giving it far richer data. * **Automatic Fallback:** If you don’t create a custom version, the plugin falls back to the automatic on-the-fly conversion. ### 3. Site-Wide AI Instructions (llms.txt) The plugin adds a new main page under ‘Utilities’ with dedicated tabs for configuration and insights. From here, you can create and manage a `llms.txt` file for your entire site. * **What is `llms.txt`?** This is a file, similar to `robots.txt`, that provides general instructions, context, and useful links to AI crawlers. It’s a new standard to help guide LLMs in understanding your site’s content and purpose. * **Manage Content:** Use the settings page to write your `llms.txt` content, which will then be served automatically to bots that look for it. * **Learn More:** You can find more details on this new standard at [https://llmstxt.org/](https://llmstxt.org/). This combination gives you full control, from automatic optimization to granular, AI-enhanced, per-post content and site-wide AI directives. ### 4. GEO/AIO Insights & Validation The dedicated GEO/AIO Insights tab provides a unique validation mechanism for your site’s AI presence, offering measurable scores (0-100) on how well your brand is understood by Generative Engines. * **The Validation Process**: We ask a Large Language Model (LLM) to complete a“ knowledge card” about your site (e.g., brand name, main topics, product categories). * **Ground Truth Check**: The AI response is immediately compared with real data extracted from your WordPress database (e.g., site title, author names, WooCommerce categories) * **Final Score**: Based on this cross-check, the insight provides a score for brand identity and technical relevance, highlighting exactly where the AI provided incorrect or insufficient data (hallucinations or missing data). ## Installation 1. Upload the `md4ai` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory. 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress. 3. **(Optional but Recommended):** Install and configure the **[AI Services](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ai-services/)** plugin to enable the “Generate with AI” features in the post metabox. 4. The automatic bot detection is now live. 5. Go to the new **“md4AI” options page** in your dashboard (usually under ‘Settings’) to configure your site-wide `llms.txt` file. 6. Go to any post or page edit screen to find the **“md4AI Custom Markdown”** metabox to customize content for that specific page. ## FAQ ### What is md4AI? md4AI is a plugin that optimizes your website for Generative Engines (GEO) by serving custom Markdown and a site-wide llms.txt file. ### What is GEO? GEO is a new standard for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) that helps guide LLMs in understanding your site’s content and purpose. ### How does it detect an AI bot? The plugin checks the incoming HTTP `User-Agent` string against an internal, pre- defined list of known AI and large language model (LLM) crawlers (e.g., gptbot, claudebot, google-extended, perplexitybot, etc.). ### How does the AI Services integration work? If you have the `ai-services` plugin installed, md4AI adds a “Generate with AI” button to its **post metabox**. This takes the generated Markdown for that post and sends it, along with a prompt, to your chosen AI provider. The AI-enhanced text( e.g., your post _plus_ a new FAQ section) then replaces the content in the metabox, ready to be served to bots. ### What’s the difference between the Custom Markdown and the llms.txt file? They serve two different, important purposes: * **Custom Markdown (Per Post/Page):** This is controlled via a **metabox** on each post/page. It allows you to create a specific, enhanced Markdown _version of that page’s content_. This is what an AI bot will receive _instead_ of the HTML when it crawls that specific URL. * **llms.txt (Site-Wide):** This is controlled from the plugin’s main **options page**. It’s a _single file_ for your entire site, similar to `robots.txt`. It doesn’t contain post content, but rather gives _general instructions_ and context to AI crawlers (e.g., site purpose, useful links, etc.). For more details, see [https://llmstxt.org/](https://llmstxt.org/). ### What’s the difference between ‘Automatic’ and ‘Manual’ Markdown? This applies to your posts and pages: * **Automatic:** If you do nothing, the plugin automatically converts your post’s HTML to Markdown on-the-fly when a bot visits. * **Manual:** If you use the metabox to “Generate” or “Generate with AI,” you create a _static_ version that is saved to your database. This _saved_ version will be served to bots instead. This allows you to add enhanced content (like FAQs) that only the AI sees. ### Does this affect regular search engine optimization (SEO)? No. Regular users and traditional search engine crawlers (like standard Googlebot) will continue to receive your standard HTML page. This functionality is specifically targeted at AI agents. ### Are there any performance concerns? No. For automatic detection, the plugin runs early and immediately stops execution(` exit;`) after serving the Markdown content. For manual generation, the content is pre-generated and saved, so serving it is extremely fast. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “md4AI” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Erik ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/codekraft/) [Translate “md4AI” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/md4ai) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/md4ai/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/md4ai/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/md4ai/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/md4ai/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.3.0 * The user can now select the preferred model for the post description generation * Prevent admin bar links from leaking when extracting header and footer links.( thanks to @alh0319 for reporting this issue) * Fix: llms.txt file 404s. (thanks to @alh0319 for reporting this issue) #### 1.2.0 * UI enhancements #### 1.1.1 * Store and Display access logs (source and search terms only) * Updated dependencies * Updated dashboard UI #### 1.1.0 * Enhanced admin UI * GEO insights page * Added crawler stats * Added integration with the AI Services plugin. * Added “Generate with AI” functionality to enhance content using prompts (e.g., add FAQs, summaries). * Implemented REST API endpoints for generating base .md and .txt content. #### 1.0.0 * Added metaboxes to the post editor to manually generate and store custom Markdown(. md) file. * The plugin now serves the custom, manually-generated content to bots if it exists, falling back to the automatic conversion if not. * Initial release of the md4AI plugin. * Includes a list of 14 known AI and search bots. * Implements basic HTML to Markdown conversion for optimal AI consumption. ## Meta * Version **1.3.0** * Last updated **4 weeks ago** * Active installations **20+** * WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.9.4** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/md4ai/) * Tags * [AI](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ai/)[geo](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/geo/) [llms.txt](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/llms-txt/)[markdown](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/markdown/) [seo](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/) * [Advanced View](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/md4ai/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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