Description
Is your site cited in answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI-powered search?
ACS AI Citation Readiness diagnoses your WordPress site and helps you prepare it to be cited by AI search engines and assistants.
- LLMO Diagnosis: Scores your site out of 100 across 12 checks in 3 categories (AI access foundation, structure and citability, and E-E-A-T trust signals), with actionable advice for each check.
- llms.txt auto-generation: Generates an llms.txt file following the llmstxt.org convention and serves it at
/llms.txt(no physical file writes; uses a rewrite rule). - FAQ schema shortcode: Outputs a visible Q&A block together with FAQPage structured data from a single shortcode. Multiple shortcodes on the same page are merged into one FAQPage schema.
- AI citation monitoring: Measures visits from about 20 known AI crawlers and human referrals from AI services on the server side, and shows totals for today, the last 7 days, the last 30 days, and all time. No IP addresses or personal data are stored (daily counts only, kept for 92 days).
All features are free and fully functional. This plugin sends no data to external services.
A separate paid add-on, ACS AI Citation Readiness Pro (distributed from our site), adds scan history, weekly automated scans with email notification, bulk content checks, per-crawler and per-page monitoring breakdowns, and AI citation alerts.
Installation
- Upload and activate the plugin.
- Open “AI Citation Readiness” in the admin menu and run “Site Diagnosis” to see where you stand.
- Enable llms.txt serving from the llms.txt tab.
FAQ
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What does the diagnosis score measure?
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Twelve checks: llms.txt, AI crawler access in robots.txt, sitemap, and HTTPS (AI access foundation); JSON-LD structured data, FAQ/HowTo schema, title/meta description, heading structure, and OGP (structure and citability); author/publisher info, date information, outbound source links, and RSS (trust signals).
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Does a higher score guarantee citation by AI?
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No. This plugin prepares the technical conditions that make citation more likely. Content quality and original first-hand information ultimately determine whether AI cites your site.
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Does this plugin send any data to external services?
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No. Diagnosis and monitoring run entirely on your own server. Nothing is sent to external services.
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Does monitoring store visitor personal data?
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No. It stores only daily counts per crawler name, per referrer service, and per path. No IP addresses or personal data are stored, and data older than 92 days is discarded.
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Contributors & Developers
“ACS AI Citation Readiness” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.1.1
- Renamed the FAQ shortcode from [acs_faq] to [acsaiv_faq] so that all public identifiers use the plugin’s unique “acsaiv” prefix.
1.1.0
- Renamed the plugin to ACS AI Citation Readiness.
- Moved the citation monitor admin styles into an enqueued stylesheet.
- Hardened the FAQ JSON-LD output (slashes are now escaped to prevent script-tag break-out).
1.0.1
- Switched UI strings and readme to English source text (Japanese translation is provided via translate.wordpress.org).
- Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 7.0.
1.0.0
- Restructured as the free core plugin for WordPress.org distribution. All features in this plugin are free.
- Moved paid features (scan history, weekly scans, bulk checks, monitoring breakdowns, citation alerts) and license handling to the separate ACS AI Citation Readiness Pro add-on.
- Added extension hooks: acsaiv_admin_tabs / acsaiv_render_tab / acsaiv_scan_completed / acsaiv_citation_signal / acsaiv_monitor_details.
- Cleaned up legacy uninstall options.
0.3.0
- Added AI citation monitoring: server-side measurement of AI crawler visits and referrals from AI services (daily counts only, 92-day retention, no IP or personal data).
0.2.0
- Improved uninstall cleanup of stored options.
0.1.1
- Removed the public web checker form from the distributed plugin.
0.1.0
- Initial release (MVP): LLMO diagnosis / llms.txt serving / FAQ schema shortcode.