When ChatGPT answers a question your blog already covers, it should cite you.
Right now it probably doesn’t. A typical AI answer cites only a handful of sources — and your WordPress site is missing the signals that get you on that shortlist. No llms.txt, no FAQ schema, no Markdown for agents, no idea which AI bots are reading you. RankReady is the plugin that fixes all of it, alongside the SEO plugin you already run.
You rank fine on Google. AI still skips you.
Traditional SEO plugins optimise for blue links — a web that’s shrinking. AI assistants check four different things before they cite a source. Most WordPress installs miss all four.
There’s no AI index of your site
Google reads your sitemap.xml. ChatGPT reads nothing. Without an llms.txt file, AI crawlers can’t tell what your site covers — so they go cite someone who has one.
Your content isn’t shaped like an answer
Google AI Overviews and Perplexity lift answers from clearly-structured content. FAQ, HowTo and Speakable blocks hand them a clean passage to quote; a wall of unstructured prose is harder to pull from.
Your authors look anonymous
E-E-A-T is exactly what AI models use to pick sources. With empty Person schema — no bio, credentials or topics — you read as a stranger. Strangers don’t get cited.
You can’t see any of it happening
Which AI bots came by? Which posts did they fetch mid-answer? Is anyone citing you? Without a log you’re guessing. RankReady puts every bot hit and citation in a real table.
AI answers are already eating the click.
In 2026, AI Overviews, ChatGPT answers and Perplexity citations intercept buyer questions before Google’s classic results ever load. They cite a handful of sources, link a few, and synthesise the rest — your traffic vanishes into someone else’s footnote.
The sites that get name-dropped aren’t smarter than yours. They just ship four things: a clean content index for bots, the right schema, real author credentials, and a way to watch which AI engines are reading them.
That’s what RankReady installs for you, in about five minutes.
Everything you need to be discovered, read & cited.
Six layers, in the order an AI bot meets your site — finding it, reading it, generating what it quotes, showing you who’s reading, and the developer plumbing that makes it all hold up.
Show up where the bots are actually looking.
The discovery layer. If a crawler can’t find or read your content, nothing else matters.
llms.txt & llms-full.txt
The llmstxt.org standard at /llms.txt — an AI-native sitemap of your best content. RankReady generates both files and keeps them current as you publish.
Markdown endpoints
Every post served as clean Markdown at /post.md with YAML frontmatter. Agents parse it cleanly — no theme HTML, navigation or scripts to wade through. Content negotiation via Accept: text/markdown too.
WebMCP manifest New
A Model Context Protocol manifest at /.well-known/mcp.json lists what agents can do on your site. Claude Desktop and Cursor users add you as an MCP server.
Open Knowledge Format New
OKF output so the agents that speak the emerging open-knowledge spec can consume your site directly — not just the ones that read llms.txt.
31 AI crawler controls
Allow or block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Bytespider and 26 more — individually. Auto-synced to a real robots.txt, even if a host plugin intercepts it.
Content Signals
The ai-train, search and ai-input directives let you say “index me, don’t train on me” in a way bots already understand, per contentsignals.org.
Give the bots the shape of an answer.
Schema is how AI understands what a post actually is. RankReady picks the right one per post — you write normally, the plugin handles the markup.
Article & Speakable schema
Every post gets Article JSON-LD with Speakable sentences flagged separately — the bit voice assistants and AI read aloud. Running Rank Math or Yoast? RankReady merges into their graph instead of duplicating.
FAQPage schema
The schema structured Q&A that gives AI a clean, ready-to-quote answer. Generate a FAQ on any post and the JSON-LD wires itself up.
HowTo & ItemList Auto · free
Tutorials get HowTo schema and “Top 10” posts get ItemList — automatically, by reading your numbered headings. No markup from you. Yoast charges for this; RankReady doesn’t.
E-E-A-T author box
Photo, bio, headline, topics, credentials, year-started. Drop the Gutenberg block or Elementor widget; Person schema goes out with it so bots know who wrote the post and what they know.
Brand Terms & Identity New
One source of truth for your site name, summary, about and the terms your brand owns — reused across schema and llms.txt so AI describes you consistently, everywhere.
Multilingual llms.txt
Auto-detects WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot and GTranslate, and emits hreflang Link headers so crawlers discover every translated copy alongside the canonical.
Generate the bits AI actually quotes from.
Bring your own API key. RankReady writes FAQ blocks and summaries wrapped in the right schema — with no monthly cap on either.
AI summaries Unlimited
One click writes a “Key Takeaways” block at the top of any post, wrapped in Speakable schema so AI knows exactly which sentences to quote.
FAQ generator + DataForSEO Unlimited
RankReady asks DataForSEO for the real “People Also Ask” questions ranking for your keyword, has your LLM answer them, and attaches FAQPage schema.
Use any of four LLMs
OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini or DeepSeek. Paste one key in Settings and you’re done — switch any time. Your key never leaves your server. We never see it.
Native block & Elementor widget
Three blocks ship in the box — AI Summary, FAQ, and Author Box. Drop them anywhere; pick position, label and whether they’re open by default.
Regenerate without leaving the editor
Updated a post? There’s a regenerate button right in the meta box. No bulk job, no separate page. Pay only your usage — typically $0.001–0.01 a post.
See which AI engines are reading you.
Every analytics view is free, server-side, and stays on your own site. Without this data you’re guessing whether any of it works. With it, you just look.
Training-bot log
Which AI crawlers indexed which pages — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot and more training-intent bots, timestamped and sorted.
Citation-bot candidates
Which pages were fetched mid-answer by ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-Web and DuckAssistBot. Each hit is a live AI answer that retrieved your page.
Intent classification New
Every bot hit is tagged by why it came — training, search indexing, or a live citation fetch — so the logs tell you intent, not just traffic.
Real AI referrals
Humans clicking through from chatgpt.com, perplexity.ai, claude.ai, gemini.google.com and copilot.microsoft.com — 100% server-side via the Referer header.
Content freshness scanner
Buckets every post into Fresh, Going stale and Stale. Tick the stale ones and bulk-refresh dateModified — a clean recency signal without touching content.
Standards-compliant down to the header.
The AI-readable endpoints are cheap to serve, correct at the edge, and overridable from code. Built for people who read the source.
RFC 9110/9111 cache headers
Split max-age vs s-maxage so browsers and edges cache the AI routes correctly, not by accident.
ETag + If-None-Match → 304
Revalidation on /llms.txt and /mcp.json saves 60–90% bandwidth on repeat crawls.
CORS on AI-readable endpoints
Agents fetching cross-origin aren’t blocked by a missing header — the AI routes answer them cleanly.
Cloudflare APO admin notice
Detects APO and surfaces the exact Cache Rule snippet to paste, so content-negotiated Markdown works without a cache buster.
llms.txt content filters
Override the generated file with rankready_llms_txt_content, or force it on in edge cases with rankready_force_llms_txt.
Pro Extension API
rnrd_is_pro is filterable and rnrd_loaded fires after init — companion Pro addons attach via standard WordPress hooks.
WordPress.org native updates
Ships and updates through the official repo — no license servers, no phone-home, no telemetry.
Already in build.
Shipping in upcoming free releases — no paywall on the roadmap.
Auto-generate on publish Soon
AI Summary and FAQ written automatically the moment a post is published or updated.
Custom post type support Soon
Schema, Markdown endpoints, llms.txt and generation will work on any registered CPT — products, docs, portfolios — not just posts and pages.
Bulk regenerate Soon
Run Summary, FAQ and Author Box across every existing post in one pass.
AI Mention Tracker Soon
Polls ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity to see when they actually name you.
Per-language llms.txt Soon
A dedicated index file per translated locale, not just hreflang headers.
Multi-site management Soon
One centralized dashboard to run RankReady across every site you operate.
Three things happen before AI quotes you.
None of it is mysterious. Once you see the sequence, you can see exactly where your site drops out.
The bot finds you
It reads your llms.txt to see what your site covers, pulls the Markdown version of the post it cares about, and checks Content Signals for what it’s allowed to do.
The bot decides you’re worth quoting
Article and Speakable schema point at the sentences worth lifting. FAQPage and HowTo give it a clean answer. E-E-A-T author schema tells it whether the writer is someone to trust.
The bot cites you
Someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google AI a question in your niche. The bot composes an answer from the sources it scored highest — and your URL lands in the citation list.
The public AI-readiness tools grade you. RankReady passes.
IsItAgentReady and the AcceptMarkdown recipe are the community benchmarks for an AI-ready site. RankReady is built to pass everything they check for — automatically, from a plugin install.
Is It Agent Ready?
A public validator. Paste your domain; it tells you what AI agents are looking for and what you’re missing.
- /llms.txt present and validThe content index AI crawlers check first
- Markdown endpoints active/post.md served on every URL
- AI crawler access configuredGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot permitted
- Structured data detectedFAQPage, Article, Speakable schema present
RankReady handles every item for you. Install, run the setup wizard, re-test. Your score moves from red to green without touching a server.
Test your siteAccept Markdown recipe
A community checklist for serving real .md versions of your posts that agents read cleanly — without scraping HTML.
- Per-post Markdown endpointsEvery URL at /post.md
- Structure preservedHeadings, lists, tables, code blocks intact
- Correct Content-Type headertext/markdown so agents recognise it
- Works with every editorGutenberg, Elementor, Bricks, Classic
RankReady ships the recipe out of the box. One toggle in Settings. No theme edits, no functions.php, no custom routes to maintain later.
Read the recipeEverything stays inside WordPress admin. What these validators check for normally needs custom server routes or theme edits. RankReady does it all from a regular plugin install. No SSH, no developer — you just toggle and save.
About five minutes, start to finish.
If you’ve ever installed a WordPress plugin, you already know how this goes.
Install from WordPress.org
Plugins → Add New, search RankReady, install, activate. No account, no credit card, no zip to download yourself.
Turn on the safe defaults
Tick the master toggles for llms.txt, Markdown, schema, crawler rules and insights, then Save — one conventional WordPress settings flow.
Paste a key, generate
In Settings pick OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or DeepSeek and paste the key. Open any post, hit Generate Summary. Seconds later your first AI-friendly post is live.
“We started building RankReady the week ChatGPT recommended a competitor instead of one of our own sites.” That moment made it clear — the AI search shift was already happening, and no WordPress plugin was treating it seriously.
POSIMYTH has shipped WordPress products for nine years; half a million sites run on our stuff today. We don’t build vanity dashboards — we build what site owners keep asking for. Log by log, we watched AI bots quietly replace real visitor traffic. RankReady is what we wished existed: the first plugin built end-to-end for the AI search layer, free on WordPress.org.
Early users, already shipping it.
“We’ve used RankReady since beta launch on our sites to make them ‘AI crawler’ ready, and we’re happy with it so far.”
“Good plugin for SEO and interlinking, and best for AEO ranking.”
Will RankReady conflict with Rank Math, Yoast, or AIOSEO?
How does RankReady actually work?
Do I need an AI provider API key?
Are there usage limits or monthly caps?
Will this slow down my site?
What data goes back to POSIMYTH?
What is WebMCP and the .well-known/mcp.json manifest?
Will it work with my page builder?
Stop watching ChatGPT cite your competitors.
Your blog already answers the questions people are asking AI. RankReady is what tells the bots so — free, alongside the SEO plugin you already run.
