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CiteWP measures exactly why \u2014 and shows you what to fix.<\/p>\n\n<p>It's the only WordPress plugin with a public, rubric-based AI citation score. Every signal, every weight, fully documented at citewp.com\/cite-score. No black box. No API key required. Scores run locally on your server, free forever.<\/p>\n\n<p>Works alongside Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO \u2014 your SEO plugin gets you ranked; CiteWP gets you cited.<\/p>\n\n<h4>The Cite Score<\/h4>\n\n<p>Most AI SEO tools give you a number. 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Unlike competitor \"AI scores,\" there is no black box \u2014 SEO professionals can audit, explain, and defend every recommendation to their clients.<\/p>\n\n<h4>What's Included \u2014 Free, Forever<\/h4>\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Cite Score<\/strong> \u2014 a transparent 100-point AI citation readiness score across 17 documented signals (Structure, Citability, Authority). See the score, the per-signal breakdown, and your top 3 highest-impact fixes \u2014 right in the editor and on the dashboard. Every weight is public at citewp.com\/cite-score. No black box.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>86 AI crawlers tracked<\/strong> \u2014 log visits from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, DeepSeek, and 80+ other verified AI bots across 19 vendors. See what they fetch, which pages get attention, and which published pages no AI bot has ever touched. Filter by bot, filter by date, export to CSV. Most plugins track a handful \u2014 CiteWP tracks 86.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>AI Blind Spots<\/strong> \u2014 instantly surface published content that AI crawlers have never visited, so you know exactly where your coverage gaps are.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Cite Score Over Time<\/strong> \u2014 watch your site-wide and per-post citation readiness trend across your chosen window. Confirm your fixes are actually moving the number.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>llms.txt generation<\/strong> \u2014 auto-generate \/llms.txt and \/llms-full.txt from your most important content, with cornerstone prioritization. Respects Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO settings automatically, and updates as you publish.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Cite Score in every editor<\/strong> \u2014 Gutenberg sidebar plus a universal meta box that brings the score, category breakdown, recommendations, and bot activity to Classic Editor, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, and Bricks. Check your score without leaving the page.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Schema suggestions + scoring<\/strong> \u2014 one-click Article and FAQPage JSON-LD, injected cleanly into the page head (never pasted into your content). Scoring also credits authority-entity schema \u2014 Product, Organization, Person, SoftwareApplication, LocalBusiness \u2014 so service, product, and landing pages aren't penalized for not being blog posts. FAQ detection works with Kadence, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Spectra, and HTML5 accordions.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>AI recommendations, ranked by points<\/strong> \u2014 the dashboard surfaces your highest-impact fixes, grouped by signal and post type, ranked by recoverable Cite Score points. No guessing what to work on next.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Post list column + dashboard widget<\/strong> \u2014 a sortable Cite Score column in All Posts and All Pages, plus an at-a-glance widget for your site-wide average, top crawled pages, and AI bot activity.<\/p>\n\n<p>Everything above is free, forever \u2014 no API key, no external account, no per-analysis cost.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Why no API key?<\/h4>\n\n<p>Other AI SEO plugins require you to connect an OpenAI or Anthropic API key just to see your score \u2014 meaning every analysis costs you money and sends your content to an external server.<\/p>\n\n<p>CiteWP scores your content locally on your own WordPress server. No API key. No per-analysis cost. No data leaving your site. The full feature set is free, forever.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Who this is for<\/h4>\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Bloggers and content publishers<\/strong> \u2014 your audience is already asking AI for recommendations. Be the source they cite.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>SEO professionals and agencies<\/strong> \u2014 measure AI citation readiness across client sites with a transparent, auditable rubric you can explain and defend.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Founders and small-business owners<\/strong> \u2014 if you own your WordPress site and want to show up in AI search, this is where you start.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>SaaS companies and documentation sites<\/strong> \u2014 AI engines cite authoritative reference content. Measure whether yours qualifies.<\/p>\n\n<h4>White-hat by design<\/h4>\n\n<p>Some AI SEO plugins work by serving a different, \"optimized\" version of your page to AI crawlers \u2014 a technique that's functionally cloaking and carries real risk under Google's spam policies.<\/p>\n\n<p>CiteWP takes the opposite approach: measure your actual content, find the gaps, fix them. Your real page gets better for AI and humans alike. No separate version for bots. No CDN dependency. No cloaking risk.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Built by CiteWP<\/h4>\n\n<p>CiteWP is a dedicated AI search optimization tool built specifically for WordPress. Visit citewp.com for documentation, the full scoring rubric, and blog posts on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Upload the plugin to \/wp-content\/plugins\/, or install via Plugins \u2192 Add New.<\/li>\n<li>Activate.<\/li>\n<li>AI crawler tracking and llms.txt generation start automatically.<\/li>\n<li>Open any post or page to see the Cite Score in the editor sidebar.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"do%20i%20need%20an%20api%20key%20or%20external%20account%3F\"><h3>Do I need an API key or external account?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. CiteWP scores your content locally on your own WordPress server. No OpenAI key, no Anthropic key, no external account, no per-analysis cost. Other AI SEO plugins make you connect a paid API key just to generate a score \u2014 which means every scan costs you money and sends your content to a third party. CiteWP sends nothing. Your content never leaves your site.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"will%20this%20slow%20down%20my%20site%3F\"><h3>Will this slow down my site?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. Scoring runs in the background on post save and on manual recalculation \u2014 never on front-end page loads. Crawler tracking adds a lightweight log entry only when an AI bot visits, with zero impact on regular visitor performance.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20citewp%20use%20any%20black-hat%20tricks%3F\"><h3>Does CiteWP use any black-hat tricks?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. Some tools \"optimize\" by serving a different version of your page to AI crawlers \u2014 functionally cloaking, and a real risk under search spam policies. Others sell manufactured signals. CiteWP does neither. It measures your real content, finds the gaps, and helps you fix them. The same page gets better for AI engines and human readers alike. No separate version for bots, no CDN dependency, no manufactured activity.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"how%20is%20this%20different%20from%20other%20ai%20seo%20plugins%3F\"><h3>How is this different from other AI SEO plugins?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Three things:<\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Public rubric.<\/strong> All 17 signals and their weights are documented at citewp.com\/cite-score, with a research citation behind every weight. Every other AI scoring tool hides its formula.<\/li>\n<li><strong>No API key, free forever.<\/strong> The full feature set runs locally at no cost. No paid key required to see your score.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Per-signal recommendations.<\/strong> You get the 3 highest-impact fixes on your site right now, ranked by recoverable points \u2014 not just a number.<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"is%20the%20cite%20score%20formula%20really%20public%3F\"><h3>Is the Cite Score formula really public?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes. The full 100-point rubric is at https:\/\/citewp.com\/cite-score with a research citation behind every signal weight. You can audit it, explain it to a client, and defend every recommendation.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20this%20replace%20my%20seo%20plugin%3F\"><h3>Does this replace my SEO plugin?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No, and it's not meant to. CiteWP runs alongside Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO. They handle rankings, meta tags, and sitemaps; CiteWP handles AI citation readiness. Run both together.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"what%27s%20an%20llms.txt%20file%3F\"><h3>What's an llms.txt file?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>An emerging standard that tells AI engines which of your content matters most. CiteWP generates it automatically \u2014 the way an SEO plugin generates sitemap.xml \u2014 and keeps it current as you publish or update posts.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20this%20work%20with%20woocommerce%20and%20page%20builders%3F\"><h3>Does this work with WooCommerce and page builders?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes to both. Cite Score and llms.txt work with any post type, including WooCommerce products. The score and schema tools work in Gutenberg, Classic Editor, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, and Bricks. Crawler tracking is site-wide.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>0.7.15<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>New: \"Score all content\" \u2014 backfill Cite Scores for published posts and pages that were never scored (content predating the plugin, or bulk-imported content). Run it from Settings \u2192 Maintenance, or via WP-CLI with <code>wp citewp-aiso backfill<\/code>. It scores in background batches so large sites don't time out.<\/li>\n<li>New: Content is now scored automatically whenever it is published through any path \u2014 including importers and bulk publishing \u2014 not only when a post is opened and saved in the editor.<\/li>\n<li>New: llms.txt include\/exclude toggle column on the All Posts and All Pages screens. Defaults to on; flip a post in or out of llms.txt without opening it.<\/li>\n<li>Improvement: The dashboard \"Indexed Pages\" count now reflects all published content once scored, matching what \/llms.txt actually contains.<\/li>\n<li>Update: Refreshed the listing \u2014 clearer Free feature descriptions and a reordered FAQ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>0.7.14<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Fix: Restored the correct text domain (citewp-ai-search-optimizer) after a 0.7.13 regression. No functional change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>0.7.13<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Fix: FAQ schema nested inside article schema (Rank Math's standard BlogPosting \u2192 subjectOf \u2192 FAQPage structure) is now correctly detected and credited \u2014 affected pages no longer cap at 5\/8 for the FAQ Structure signal despite having valid FAQ schema.<\/li>\n<li>Fix: Recalculate no longer downgrades the Cite Score when the self-request loopback returns a non-200 response or an implausibly small body (blocked loopback, CDN challenge page, security plugin filtering the CiteWP UA). 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Credits schema from Rank Math, Yoast, AIOSEO, and hand-rolled wp:html blocks equally.<\/li>\n<li>FAQ\/Article signal independence \u2014 Article\/Schema signal gates on Article-type validation, not presence of any schema type; FAQPage-only detections credit the FAQ signal only. Schema detection cache survives content edits and clears on post status transitions only (not every save).<\/li>\n<li>json_decode_tolerant \u2014 hand-crafted JSON-LD with literal CR\/LF in string values (accepted by Google Rich Results, rejected by PHP's strict parser) now parsed correctly.<\/li>\n<li>Flag-don't-inject \u2014 CiteWP no longer offers to insert FAQPage schema when a valid FAQPage already exists on the rendered page, preventing Rich Result clobbering. Removes the Kadence block-label auto-generation trigger that caused duplicate FAQPage schema insertion.<\/li>\n<li>FAQ extraction fix \u2014 inline CSS from Kadence accordion blocks no longer leaks into acceptedAnswer.text; clean_text() strips style\/script noise nodes before extracting text content.<\/li>\n<li>Head injection \u2014 Schema Suggestions Insert\/Remove now stores generated schema in post meta and emits via wp_head, replacing block-editor insertion. Eliminates wpautop corruption of JSON-LD in post_content. 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