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In 2026, signaling your “Intent and Consent” to AI models is the new Technical SEO. Elthian AI Licensing Lite provides a professional framework for site owners to publish machine-readable AI usage policies.
Whether your goal is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)—earning citations in LLM responses—or protecting your IP from unauthorized training, Elthian ensures your site speaks the language of modern AI agents.
<h3>Advanced License Tiers Included:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Elthian-NoAI: Hard prohibition on all AI system use and automated access.</li>
<li>Elthian-NoTrain: The GEO standard. Permits discovery/citation via AI Search but prohibits training and RAG.</li>
<li>Elthian-UseOnly: For Agentic AI. Permits request-bound, ephemeral processing (deleted after use) but prohibits persistent storage.</li>
<li>Elthian-NonCommercial: Enables academic and research use while blocking commercial exploitation.</li>
<li>Elthian-Public: Open access for training and commercial use with attribution. 
<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>Standardized llms.txt: Automatically serve the dynamically generated <code>/llms.txt</code> file preferred by AI crawlers.</li>
<li>AI-Specific Sitemap: Dedicated <code>/ai-license-sitemap.xml</code> to help agents discover your citation-ready content.</li>
<li>Global & Per-Post Controls: Set a site-wide policy or override permissions for specific premium content.</li>
<li>Robots.txt Integration: Appends standard directives (noai, noimageai) based on your selected license.</li>
<li>Well-known JSON Endpoint: Implements the <code>.well-known/ai-policy.json</code> technical standard.</li>
<li>License Badge: Professional human-visible notice to inform visitors of your AI usage rights.</li>
</ul>
A separate Pro plugin is available with additional policy and analytics features: 
<a href="https://elthianlabs.com/plugins/ai-licensing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about Elthian AI Licensing Pro</a>.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin can optionally connect to the Elthian API (api.elthian.com) to register or sync your site’s AI policy declaration.
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.
What the service is used for:
<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>
What data is sent and when: 
* Data is sent only when Registry Sync is enabled by an administrator, or when an administrator manually initiates a sync. 
* 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. 
* Post content, page content, comments, user accounts, and customer data are not sent as part of the policy sync.
Service provider:
<ul>
<li>Elthian</li>
</ul>
Terms of service:
<ul>
<li>https://elthianlabs.com/legal/terms/</li>
</ul>
Privacy policy:
<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.

Marios Alexandrou

Virtual Robots.txt is an easy (i.e. automated) solution to creating and managing a robots.txt file for your site. Instead of mucking about with FTP, files, permissions ..etc, just upload and activate the plugin and you’re done.
By default, the Virtual Robots.txt plugin allows access to the parts of WordPress that good bots like Google need to access. Other parts are blocked.
If the plugin detects an existing XML sitemap file, a reference to it will be automatically added to your robots.txt file.

Virtual Robots.txt

Awesome, a simple solution to a common issue (site content managers who want to hide certain pages from Google search results).

Just a little note: in my case, the existing Sitemap created by the plugin "Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator" by Arne Brachhold wasn't detected.

Efficient and unobstrusive

I like the fact that it's so clean. Thanks for building it!

Does the Job

Virtual Robots.txt automatically creates a robots.txt file for your site. Your robots.txt file can be easily edited from the plugin settings page.

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