md4AI Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

md4AI automatically detects requests from a comprehensive list of known AI agents (like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, etc.) and serves them a lightweight, on-the-fly Markdown version of your content instead of the standard HTML theme. This ensures a clean, parsable data feed for LLMs right out of the box.

2. Per-Post Custom Markdown (Metabox)

The plugin adds a new metabox to your post and page editor, giving you full control over the AI-optimized version of your content.
Serving an md version of the website is particular useful if your website has editors like Elementor / Beaver Builder / Divi Builder / other div bloated editors because bots usually skips complex and too much nested content.

Generate Custom Markdown: Convert your post’s content into Markdown with one click.
Manually Edit: Modify and enhance the Markdown to be exactly as you want AIs to see it.
(Optional) Enhance with AI: If you also use the AI Services plugin, you can use the “Generate with AI” button to automatically add FAQs, discussion questions, or key takeaways extracted from your post.
Serve Enhanced Content: When an AI bot visits this specific post, it will be served your new, custom-tailored Markdown version, giving it far richer data.
Automatic Fallback: If you don’t create a custom version, the plugin falls back to the automatic on-the-fly conversion.

3. Site-Wide AI Instructions (llms.txt)

The plugin adds a new main page under ‘Utilities’ with dedicated tabs for configuration and insights. From here, you can create and manage a llms.txt file for your entire site.

What is llms.txt? This is a file, similar to robots.txt, that provides general instructions, context, and useful links to AI crawlers. It’s a new standard to help guide LLMs in understanding your site’s content and purpose.
Manage Content: Use the settings page to write your llms.txt content, which will then be served automatically to bots that look for it.
Learn More: You can find more details on this new standard at https://llmstxt.org/.

This combination gives you full control, from automatic optimization to granular, AI-enhanced, per-post content and site-wide AI directives.

4. GEO/AIO Insights & Validation

The dedicated GEO/AIO Insights tab provides a unique validation mechanism for your site’s AI presence, offering measurable scores (0-100) on how well your brand is understood by Generative Engines.

The Validation Process: We ask a Large Language Model (LLM) di completare una “scheda di conoscenza” sul tuo sito (ad esempio, il nome del brand, gli argomenti principali e le categorie di prodotto).
Ground Truth Check: The AI response is immediately compared with real data extracted from your WordPress database (e.g., site title, author names, WooCommerce categories)
Final Score: Based on this cross-check, the insight provides a score for brand identity and technical relevance, highlighting exactly where the AI provided incorrect or insufficient data (hallucinations or missing data).

Installation

Upload the md4ai folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
(Optional but Recommended): Install and configure the AI Services plugin to enable the “Generate with AI” features in the post metabox.
The automatic bot detection is now live.
Go to the new “md4AI” options page in your dashboard (usually under ‘Settings’) to configure your site-wide llms.txt file.
Go to any post or page edit screen to find the “md4AI Custom Markdown” metabox to customize content for that specific page.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is md4AI?

md4AI is a plugin that optimizes your website for Generative Engines (GEO) by serving custom Markdown and a site-wide llms.txt file.

What is GEO?

GEO is a new standard for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) that helps guide LLMs in understanding your site’s content and purpose.

How does it detect an AI bot?

The plugin checks the incoming HTTP User-Agent string against an internal, pre-defined list of known AI and large language model (LLM) crawlers (e.g., gptbot, claudebot, google-extended, perplexitybot, etc.).

How does the AI Services integration work?

If you have the ai-services plugin installed, md4AI adds a “Generate with AI” button to its post metabox. This takes the generated Markdown for that post and sends it, along with a prompt, to your chosen AI provider. The AI-enhanced text (e.g., your post plus a new FAQ section) then replaces the content in the metabox, ready to be served to bots.

What’s the difference between the Custom Markdown and the llms.txt file?

They serve two different, important purposes:

Custom Markdown (Per Post/Page): This is controlled via a metabox on each post/page. It allows you to create a specific, enhanced Markdown version of that page’s content. This is what an AI bot will receive instead of the HTML when it crawls that specific URL.
llms.txt (Site-Wide): This is controlled from the plugin’s main options page. It’s a single file for your entire site, similar to robots.txt. It doesn’t contain post content, but rather gives general instructions and context to AI crawlers (e.g., site purpose, useful links, etc.). For more details, see https://llmstxt.org/.

What’s the difference between ‘Automatic’ and ‘Manual’ Markdown?

This applies to your posts and pages:

Automatic: If you do nothing, the plugin automatically converts your post’s HTML to Markdown on-the-fly when a bot visits.
Manual: If you use the metabox to “Generate” or “Generate with AI,” you create a static version that is saved to your database. This saved version will be served to bots instead. This allows you to add enhanced content (like FAQs) that only the AI sees.

Does this affect regular search engine optimization (SEO)?

No. Regular users and traditional search engine crawlers (like standard Googlebot) will continue to receive your standard HTML page. This functionality is specifically targeted at AI agents.

Are there any performance concerns?

No. For automatic detection, the plugin runs early and immediately stops execution (exit;) after serving the Markdown content. For manual generation, the content is pre-generated and saved, so serving it is extremely fast.

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Changelog

1.1.0

Enhanced admin UI
GEO insights page
Added crawler stats
Added integration with the AI Services plugin.
Added “Generate with AI” functionality to enhance content using prompts (e.g., add FAQs, summaries).
Implemented REST API endpoints for generating base .md and .txt content.

1.0.0

Added metaboxes to the post editor to manually generate and store custom Markdown (.md) file.
The plugin now serves the custom, manually-generated content to bots if it exists, falling back to the automatic conversion if not.
Initial release of the md4AI plugin.
Includes a list of 14 known AI and search bots.
Implements basic HTML to Markdown conversion for optimal AI consumption.

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