aimiles

<p>aiMiles detects AI agents visiting your WordPress site and allows you to serve them sponsored content.</p>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li>When any request hits your site, the plugin checks the User-Agent header</li>
<li>If it matches a known AI bot signature (25+ supported), the request is routed through the aiMiles serve API</li>
<li>The API fetches your original page, appends a sponsored message, and returns the result to the bot</li>
<li>Human visitors are never affected — they always see your original, unmodified pages</li>
</ol>
<h4>Supported AI Agents</h4>
<ul>
<li>GPTBot (OpenAI)</li>
<li>ChatGPT-User (OpenAI)</li>
<li>ClaudeBot (Anthropic)</li>
<li>Claude-Web (Anthropic)</li>
<li>PerplexityBot (Perplexity)</li>
<li>Google-Extended (Google)</li>
<li>Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta)</li>
<li>AppleBot-Extended (Apple)</li>
<li>ByteSpider (ByteDance)</li>
<li>CCBot (Common Crawl)</li>
<li>And 15+ more</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<h4>Enable/Disable</h4>
<p>Toggle detection and serving on/off.</p>
<h4>API Key</h4>
<p>Your aiMiles API key is required. Get one at https://app.aimiles.ai/publishers/settings</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the aiMiles serve API (https://app.aimiles.ai/api/serve) to proxy AI bot requests. An API key is required to use this service.</p>
<h4>Data sent to the API</h4>
<p>When an AI agent is detected visiting your site, the plugin makes a request to https://app.aimiles.ai/api/serve with the following query parameters:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>url</code> — The full URL the bot was requesting on your site</li>
<li><code>key</code> — Your API key (for authentication)</li>
<li><code>ua</code> — The visitor’s User-Agent header</li>
</ul>
<p>The serve API fetches your original page, appends sponsored content, logs the visit, and returns the modified HTML. This happens on every AI agent page visit. Human visitors are never routed through the API.</p>
<p>Service provided by aiMiles: <a href="https://aimiles.ai/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>, <a href="https://aimiles.ai/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>


aiMiles – AI Agent

Detect AI agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, etc.) visiting your WordPress site and monetize them with sponsored content injection.

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<p>AI agents, LLMs, and crawlers have to wade through navigation bars, sidebars, ads, and comment forms to reach the content they want, and every element costs tokens. <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare measured</a> an 80% reduction in token usage when converting a blog post from HTML to Markdown (16,180 tokens down to 3,150).</p>
<p>Botkibble adds a Markdown endpoint to every published post and page.</p>
<p>Cloudflare offers <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/markdown-for-agents/" rel="nofollow ugc">Markdown for Agents</a> at the CDN edge on Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans. Botkibble does the same thing (for free) at the origin, so it works on any host.</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/greg-randall/botkibble" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repository</a></p>
<p><strong>Three ways to request Markdown:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><code>.md</code> suffix</strong>: append <code>.md</code> to any post or page URL (e.g. <code>example.com/my-post.md</code>)</li>
<li><strong>Query parameter</strong>: add <code>?format=markdown</code> to any post or page URL</li>
<li><strong>Content negotiation</strong>: send <code>Accept: text/markdown</code> in the request header</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What’s in every response:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Structured metadata header with title, date, categories, tags, word count, character count, and estimated token count (in YAML frontmatter format, readable by any AI agent)</li>
<li>Clean Markdown converted from fully-rendered post HTML (shortcodes run, filters applied)</li>
<li><code>Content-Type: text/markdown</code> and <code>Vary: Accept</code> response headers</li>
<li><code>Content-Signal</code> header for AI signal declaration — defaults to <code>ai-train=no, search=yes, ai-input=yes</code> — see <a href="https://contentsignals.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">contentsignals.org</a></li>
<li><code>X-Markdown-Tokens</code> header with estimated token count</li>
<li>Discovery via <code><link rel="alternate"></code> in the HTML head and <code>Link</code> HTTP header</li>
<li>Automatic cache invalidation when a post is updated or deleted</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Performance:</strong></p>
<p>Botkibble writes Markdown to disk on the first request, then serves it as a static file. A built-in Fast-Path serves cached files during WordPress’s <code>init</code> hook, before the main database query runs. No extra configuration needed.</p>
<p>Add a web server rewrite rule and Botkibble bypasses PHP entirely, serving <code>.md</code> files the same way a server would serve an image or CSS file:</p>
<p>  Method<br />
  Avg. response time</p>
<p>  Standard HTML<br />
  0.97s</p>
<p>  Markdown (cold, first request)<br />
  0.95s</p>
<p>  Markdown (cached, PHP Fast-Path)<br />
  0.87s</p>
<p>  Markdown (Nginx/Apache direct)<br />
  0.11s</p>
<p>Serving directly from disk is <strong>88% faster</strong> than a full WordPress page load. See the Performance section below for Nginx and Apache configuration.</p>
<p><strong>Security:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Drafts, private posts, and password-protected content return <code>403 Forbidden</code></li>
<li>Rate limits cache-miss regenerations (20/min by default) to mitigate DoS abuse</li>
<li><code>X-Robots-Tag: noindex</code> keeps Markdown versions out of search results</li>
<li><code>Link: rel="canonical"</code> points search engines back to the HTML version</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Cache variants (optional):</strong></p>
<p>You can persist alternate cached representations by adding <code>?botkibble_variant=slim</code> (or any other variant name).<br />
Variant caches are stored under:</p>
<pre><code>/wp-content/uploads/botkibble/_v/<variant>/<slug>.md
</code></pre>
<p><strong>What it does NOT do:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Expose drafts, private posts, or password-protected content</li>
<li>Serve non-post/page content types by default</li>
<li>Require any configuration. Activate and it works.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why Markdown?</h3>
<p>HTML is expensive for AI systems to process. <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare measured</a> an 80% reduction in token usage when converting a blog post from HTML to Markdown (16,180 tokens down to 3,150).</p>
<p>Cloudflare now offers <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/markdown-for-agents/" rel="nofollow ugc">Markdown for Agents</a> at the CDN edge via the <code>Accept: text/markdown</code> header, available on Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans.</p>
<p>This plugin does the same thing at the origin, so it works on any host. It also adds <code>.md</code> suffix URLs, <code>?format=markdown</code> query parameters, YAML frontmatter, static file caching, and server-level offloading.</p>
<p>If you use Cloudflare, both share the same <code>Accept: text/markdown</code> header, <code>Content-Signal</code> headers, and <code>X-Markdown-Tokens</code> response headers.</p>
<p>Cloudflare currently defaults to <code>Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes</code> with no way to change it. Botkibble defaults to <code>ai-train=no</code> and lets you override the full signal per site via the <code>botkibble_content_signal</code> filter.</p>
<h3>Performance & Static Offloading</h3>
<p>This plugin supports static file offloading by writing Markdown content to <code>/wp-content/uploads/botkibble/</code>.</p>
<h3>Nginx Configuration</h3>
<p>To bypass PHP entirely and have Nginx serve the files (including variants) directly:</p>
<pre><code># Variants
location ~* ^/(_v/[^/]+/.+)\.md$ {
    default_type text/markdown;
    try_files /wp-content/uploads/botkibble/$1.md /index.php?$args;
}

# Default
location ~* ^/(.+)\.md$ {
    default_type text/markdown;
    try_files /wp-content/uploads/botkibble/$1.md /index.php?$args;
}
</code></pre>
<h3>Apache (.htaccess)</h3>
<p>Add this to your <code>.htaccess</code> before the WordPress rules:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine On
# Variants
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/uploads/botkibble/_v/$1/$2.md -f
RewriteRule ^_v/([^/]+)/(.+)\.md$ /wp-content/uploads/botkibble/_v/$1/$2.md [L,T=text/markdown]

# Default
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/uploads/botkibble/$1.md -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.md$ /wp-content/uploads/botkibble/$1.md [L,T=text/markdown]
</code></pre>
<p>Even without these rules, the plugin uses a “Fast-Path” that serves cached files from PHP before the main database query is executed.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>We thank Cristi Constantin (https://github.com/cristi-constantin) for contributing cache variants, URL and SEO improvements, and fixing important bugs.</p>


Botkibble

Serves every published post and page as Markdown for AI agents and crawlers. No configuration, no API keys. Activate and it works.

aiMiles – AI Agent vs Botkibble