Alex Khomichenko

The leader in content syndication for WordPress publishers now helps protect you from Artificial Intelligence companies using your content without compensation. If you are not blocking the AI companies access, they have no incentive to license your content.
Features include:
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<li>Block the bots of leading AI companies from scraping your content</li>
<li>See the bots name, IP address and last seek date</li>
<li>Add/remove bots from the block list</li>
<li>Opt in to create a common AI bot list and give blocked bots instructions on how to license your content.</li>
</ul>
SimpleFeed is the leading content syndication solution for WordPress Publishers. We work with over 500 publishers to syndicate their content to Apple News, MSN, SmartNews, Newsbreak, Opera News, Samsung News, Yahoo and just about anywhere your users consume content. We are working with these publishers, and publishers who use this plugin and want to participate, to license their content to leading AI companies.
SimpleFeed has a non-public plug-in which also enables publishers to be more successful in their syndication efforts. SimpleFeed customers get the complete plug in, best practices for successful syndication, and technical support.
Please note that blocking the wrong bot and/or presenting the wrong Robots.txt can lead to traffic declines. This plug in is free and offered “as is” without warranty or support.
Install now to preserve your rights to potential future compensation from the AI companies.
<h3>Use of 3rd Party Services</h3>
The AI Rights Protection by SimpleFeed plugin communicates with an external service hosted at <a href="https://www.simplefeed.com/wp-content/simplefeed/wp-simplefeed-bots-protection-admin-rest.php" rel="nofollow ugc">SimpleFeed</a> to perform the following functions:
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Storage of Plugin Settings: The plugin sends and retrieves plugin settings to/from the SimpleFeed service. This ensures that your settings are securely stored and synchronized with the external service.
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Bot Request Statistics: The plugin collects and stores statistics about bot requests on your WordPress site. These statistics are sent to SimpleFeed for analysis and reporting purposes.
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Premium Access Validation: The plugin checks with the SimpleFeed service to verify if your WordPress user account has premium access to the plugin features.
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For more information, please review the <a href="https://www.simplefeed.com/other/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">SimpleFeed Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.simplefeed.com/other/tos/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a>.
By using this plugin, you agree to the data transmissions to SimpleFeed’s external services for the purposes outlined above.

AI Rights Protection by SimpleFeed

Protect your rights by reviewing and blocking AI bots from using your content without compensation.

Azey

AI agents from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and others read your content to generate answers — but they parse through HTML, JavaScript, and navigation just to reach it. Serve Markdown gives them a direct path: clean Markdown with structured metadata. When a crawler requests it — via an <code>Accept: text/markdown</code> header or a <code>.md</code> URL — your site responds instantly. No noise, no guesswork.
<h4>How It Works</h4>
Serve Markdown adds three capabilities to your WordPress site:
1. Content Negotiation 
When an AI crawler sends <code>Accept: text/markdown</code>, your site returns Markdown instead of HTML — no URL changes needed.
2. .md URL Suffix 
Append <code>.md</code> to any post or page URL (e.g. <code>example.com/my-article.md</code>) to get the Markdown version directly.
3. Markdown Auto-Discovery 
Every page includes a <code><link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"></code> tag in the HTML head so crawlers can find your Markdown automatically.
<h4>What the Markdown Output Looks Like</h4>
Every Markdown response includes YAML frontmatter with structured metadata followed by your post content. Here is a real example:
<pre>
---
url: 'https://akumarjain.com/textexpander-year-in-review-2025/'
title: TextExpander Year in Review 2025
author:
 name: Ajay
 url: 'https://akumarjain.com/author/akumarjain/'
date: '2026-01-05T09:05:00+05:30'
modified: '2026-01-10T14:30:06+05:30'
type: post
categories:
 - 2025
 - Year in Review
tags:
 - '#ToolsIUse'
 - Productivity
 - Remote Work
image: 'https://akumarjain.com/wp-content/uploads/text-expander-year-in-review-2025.webp'
published: true
---

# TextExpander Year in Review 2025

In my daily work, I need to type the same words and phrases repeatedly...
</pre>
<h4>Features</h4>
Content Serving
<ul>
<li>Content negotiation via <code>Accept: text/markdown</code> header</li>
<li><code>.md</code> URL suffix on any post or page</li>
<li>Auto-discovery <code><link rel="alternate"></code> tag in page head</li>
<li>Each feature can be toggled independently</li>
<li>Choose which post types are exposed (posts, pages, custom post types)</li>
</ul>
Frontmatter and Metadata
<ul>
<li>YAML frontmatter with title, author, date, categories, tags, featured image, and more</li>
<li>Toggle individual metadata fields on or off</li>
<li>Add custom static key-value pairs (e.g., <code>license</code>, <code>language</code>)</li>
<li>Map WordPress custom fields (post meta) into the frontmatter</li>
</ul>
Access Control
<ul>
<li>Per-post opt-out via a sidebar checkbox in the editor</li>
<li>Exclude entire categories from Markdown serving</li>
<li>Exclude entire tags from Markdown serving</li>
<li>Only published posts are served — drafts and private posts are never exposed</li>
</ul>
Crawler Insights
<ul>
<li>Request log showing every Markdown request with timestamp, URL, bot name, and method</li>
<li>Automatic bot detection: ClaudeBot, GPTBot, ChatGPT, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot, Bingbot, Cohere, Meta AI, Bytespider, Applebot, and more</li>
<li>Stats dashboard: total requests, requests today, unique bots</li>
<li>Filter log by individual bot</li>
<li>Configurable retention period with automatic pruning</li>
<li>One-click log clearing</li>
</ul>
Editor Integration
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<li>“Preview Markdown” button in the post editor sidebar</li>
<li>“View Markdown” link in the Posts and Pages list table</li>
<li>Meta box shows on all enabled post types</li>
</ul>
<h4>Performance</h4>
Markdown conversion only runs when specifically requested — regular visitors see the same HTML pages they always have. The crawler log uses a lightweight custom table with three safeguards against unbounded growth: time-based retention, a row count cap, and a table size cap.
<h4>Privacy</h4>
The crawler log stores IP addresses and user-agent strings from Markdown requests. This data stays in your WordPress database and is never sent to external services. You can disable logging entirely, configure a retention period, or clear the log at any time from the settings page.

Serve Markdown

Serve Markdown versions of your posts and pages to AI agents and crawlers. Content negotiation, .md URLs, auto-discovery, and crawler logging.

AI Rights Protection by SimpleFeed vs Serve Markdown