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<p>In 2026, signaling your “Intent and Consent” to AI models is the new Technical SEO. <strong>Elthian AI Licensing Lite</strong> provides a professional framework for site owners to publish machine-readable AI usage policies.</p>
<p>Whether your goal is <strong>Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)</strong>—earning citations in LLM responses—or protecting your IP from unauthorized training, Elthian ensures your site speaks the language of modern AI agents.</p>
<h3>Advanced License Tiers Included:</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Elthian-NoAI:</strong> Hard prohibition on all AI system use and automated access.</li>
<li><strong>Elthian-NoTrain:</strong> The GEO standard. Permits discovery/citation via AI Search but prohibits training and RAG.</li>
<li><strong>Elthian-UseOnly:</strong> For Agentic AI. Permits request-bound, ephemeral processing (deleted after use) but prohibits persistent storage.</li>
<li><strong>Elthian-NonCommercial:</strong> Enables academic and research use while blocking commercial exploitation.</li>
<li><strong>Elthian-Public:</strong> Open access for training and commercial use with attribution.<br />
<a href="https://elthian.com/licensing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about the Elthian AI Licensing standards here</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Technical Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Standardized llms.txt:</strong> Automatically serve the dynamically generated <code>/llms.txt</code> file preferred by AI crawlers.</li>
<li><strong>AI-Specific Sitemap:</strong> Dedicated <code>/ai-license-sitemap.xml</code> to help agents discover your citation-ready content.</li>
<li><strong>Global & Per-Post Controls:</strong> Set a site-wide policy or override permissions for specific premium content.</li>
<li><strong>Robots.txt Integration:</strong> Appends standard directives (noai, noimageai) based on your selected license.</li>
<li><strong>Well-known JSON Endpoint:</strong> Implements the <code>.well-known/ai-policy.json</code> technical standard.</li>
<li><strong>License Badge:</strong> Professional human-visible notice to inform visitors of your AI usage rights.</li>
</ul>
<p>A separate Pro plugin is available with additional policy and analytics features:<br />
<a href="https://elthianlabs.com/plugins/ai-licensing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about Elthian AI Licensing Pro</a>.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin can optionally connect to the Elthian API (api.elthian.com) to register or sync your site’s AI policy declaration.</p>
<p>The external service is disabled by default. No policy data is sent to Elthian unless a site administrator enables Registry Sync or manually initiates a sync.</p>
<p>What the service is used for:</p>
<ul>
<li>To sync the site’s machine-readable AI policy declaration with Elthian’s external registry.</li>
<li>To make the site’s declared AI usage policy discoverable outside the local WordPress installation.</li>
</ul>
<p>What data is sent and when:<br />
* Data is sent only when Registry Sync is enabled by an administrator, or when an administrator manually initiates a sync.<br />
* The data sent may include the site ID, site URL, selected policy, policy scopes, URL overrides, timestamp, policy hash or policy identifier, plugin version, WordPress version, PHP version, timezone, and published content count.<br />
* Post content, page content, comments, user accounts, and customer data are not sent as part of the policy sync.</p>
<p>Service provider:</p>
<ul>
<li>Elthian</li>
</ul>
<p>Terms of service:</p>
<ul>
<li>https://elthianlabs.com/legal/terms/</li>
</ul>
<p>Privacy policy:</p>
<ul>
<li>https://elthianlabs.com/legal/privacy/</li>
</ul>


Elthian AI Licensing Lite

Manage how AI models interact with your content. Implements llms.txt, robots.txt, AI Sitemaps, and machine-readable JSON policies.

Viktor Szépe

<h4>This plugin needs more documentation!</h4>
<p>You can edit your robots.txt and add remote content to it.<br />
E.g. you have several sites and want to use a centralized robots.txt.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Include or exclude WordPress’ own robots.txt (core function)</li>
<li>Include or exclude plugins – e.g. sitemap plugins – output to robots.txt (filter output)</li>
<li>Include or exclude a remote text file (the common part)</li>
<li>Include or exclude custom records from the settings page (the site specific part)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Where is robot.txt?</h4>
<p>WordPress handles robots.txt as a virtual URL – just the same way as posts and pages.</p>
<p>So when you browse to <code>https://example.com/robots.txt</code> WordPress generates robots.txt on the fly.</p>
<h4>TODO</h4>
<ul>
<li>add more description here</li>
<li>add a video too</li>
<li>add an admin notice for subdir installs (robots.txt is useless in a subdir)</li>
<li>‘At least one “Disallow” field must be present in the robots.txt file.’ – check for that</li>
</ul>
<h4>Links</h4>
<p>Development of this plugin goes on on <a href="https://github.com/szepeviktor/multipart-robotstxt-editor" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>


Multipart robots.txt editor

Customize your site's robots.txt and include remote content to it

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