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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:
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<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.

Rolf Allard van Hagen

Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap. Compatible with WordPress Multisite, Polylang and WPML and most caching plugins. There are no static files created.
NEW: Connect your site to your Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors. 
NEW: Submit your sitemaps right from the WordPress admin. Yes, you read that correctly: Sitemap Pings are back!
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Control the WordPress core XML Sitemaps.</li>
<li>Add a Google News Sitemap.</li>
<li>Connect your site to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors.</li>
<li>Submit/ping sitemaps to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools for fast reindexation.</li>
<li>Add custom robots.txt rules.</li>
</ul>
XML Sitemap
<ul>
<li>Option to disable the main XML Sitemap Index.</li>
<li>Select sitemaps to include in the sitemap index: post types, taxonomies, authors and google news.</li>
<li>Select which (custom) post types, taxonomy archives and users to include in respective sitemaps.</li>
<li>Exclude specific posts, pages and custom post type posts from sitemaps.</li>
<li>Add a custom sitemap with external URLs.</li>
<li>Add external sitemaps.</li>
<li>Choose the sitemap server/generator: WordPress core or Plugin.</li>
<li>Plugin server: Include featured images or attached images with title.</li>
<li>Choose to update Last modification date only on post modification (default) or also on comments.</li>
<li>Sitemap stylesheet templates can be overridden by theme template files.</li>
</ul>
Google News Sitemap
<ul>
<li>Optionally activate the Google News Sitemap.</li>
<li>Includes the required news sitemap tags: Publication name, language, title and publication date.</li>
<li>Set a News Publication Name (site name by default).</li>
<li>Supports custom post types.</li>
<li>Limit inclusion of certain post categories.</li>
<li>Google News Sitemap stylesheet template can be overridden by theme template files.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Extensions</h4>
<a href="https://premium.status301.com/downloads/xml-sitemap-advanced/" rel="nofollow ugc">XML Sitemap Advanced</a>
<ul>
<li>Sitemap notifier: Automatic XML Sitemap Index update notification to Google and Bing.</li>
<li>Sitemap notifier log</li>
<li>Set a custom sitemap URL (slug)</li>
<li>Exclude posts and pages in the Bulk Editor.</li>
<li>Optionally include empty taxonomy term and empty author archives</li>
<li>Yoast SEO and Rank Math compatibility: exclude posts set to noindex</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://premium.status301.com/downloads/google-news-advanced/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google News Advanced</a>
<ul>
<li>Sitemap norifier: Automatic Google News Sitemap update notification to Google.</li>
<li>Sitemap notifier log</li>
<li>Multiple post types – Include more than one post type in the same News Sitemap.</li>
<li>Keywords – Add the keywords tag to your News Sitemap. Keywords can be created from Tags, Categories or a dedicated Keywords taxonomy.</li>
<li>Stock tickers – Add stock tickers tag to your News Sitemap. A dedicated Stock Tickers taxonomy will be available to manage them.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy / GDPR</h4>
This plugin does not collect any user or visitor data nor set browser cookies. Using this plugin should not impact your site privacy policy in any way.
Data that is published
An XML Sitemap index, referencing other sitemaps containing your web site’s public post URLs of selected post types that are already public, along with their last modification date and associated image URLs, and any selected public archive URLs. 
An author sitemap can be included, which will contain links to author archive pages. These urls contain author/user slugs, and the author archives can contain author bio information. If you wish to keep this out of public domain, then deactivate the author sitemap and use an SEO plugin to add noindex headers to the respective archive pages.
A Google News Sitemap containing your web site’s public and recent (last 48 hours) URLs of selected news post type, along with their publication time stamp and associated image URL.
Data that is transmitted
when a connection between your site and Google Search Console is configured in this plugin, the sitemap index and google news sitemap can be submitted to Google. No data is transmitted to any third party.
<h4>Contribute</h4>
If you’re happy with this plugin as it is, please consider writing a quick <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-sitemap-feed/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">rating</a> or helping other users out on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-sitemap-feed" rel="ugc">support forum</a>.
If you wish to help build this plugin, you’re very welcome to <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate it into your language</a> or contribute code on <a href="https://github.com/RavanH/xml-sitemap-feed/" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.
<h4>Credits</h4>
XML Sitemap Feed was originally based on the discontinued plugin Standard XML Sitemap Generator by Patrick Chia. Since then, it has been completely rewritten and extended in many ways.
NOTES:
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If you do not use fancy URL’s or you have WordPress site running in a subdirectory, a dynamic robots.txt will NOT be generated.
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On large sites, it is advised to use a good caching plugin to improve your site and sitemap performance.
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</ol>

XML Sitemap & Google News


I've been trying several plugins to generate a proper sitemap on our site. This one has a simple yet effective setup and really works like a charm with my CPT's.


Really works with custom post types


This is probably the best sitemap plugin available.


Best Sitemap Plugin

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