Title: Mador
Author: khlumen
Published: November 2, 2026
Last modified: November 2, 2026
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# Mador
By [khlumen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/khlumen/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/mador.1.1.1.zip)
* [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mador/#description)
* [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mador/#reviews)
* [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mador/#installation)
* [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mador/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mador/)
## Description
[Mador](https://mador.ai) measures how often AI assistants (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity,
Claude and others) name a business when a customer asks, and writes the pages that
help them name it. This plugin brings that work onto the business’s own WordPress
site.
It does four things, and nothing else:
* **Site verification.** It adds `` to the head of
every page, so Mador can confirm the site belongs to your account. Nothing to
paste.
* **Questions and answers.** `[mador-faq]` prints the questions and answers written
for your business, with `FAQPage` structured data. They update on their own when
you correct them in the Mador area.
* **Badge.** `[mador-badge]` shows your latest measurement, linking to the certificate.
* **Certificate.** `[mador-certificato]` embeds the full measurement certificate.
No API key, no account password, no tracking, no JavaScript, no stylesheets, no
external libraries. The only setting that identifies anything is your report code,
which is already public.
The plugin adds no links to your public pages on its own. The badge and the certificate
appear only where you place their shortcodes. The “Measured and written with Mador”
credit link under the questions and answers is off until you turn it on in **Settings
Mador**.
The plugin needs a Mador account: it shows what Mador has measured and written for
your business. See the “External services” section below for what it exchanges with
mador.ai.
The admin screens are in English, with Italian and Spanish on their way through
the language packs of translate.wordpress.org. What visitors see follows the language
you choose in the settings (Italian, English or Spanish).
### External services
This plugin connects to Mador (https://mador.ai), the service it belongs to and
is operated by Khlumen. It does not work without it. The plugin contacts mador.ai
only in the cases below, and only once a report code is saved in **Settings Mador**.
* **Questions and answers** (`[mador-faq]`): when a page with the shortcode is
rendered and nothing is cached, your server requests `https://mador.ai/api/pubblicazioni/{
report code}.json`. The request carries the report code in the address and the
plugin version in the user agent; it sends no personal data, no visitor data
and nothing else about your site. The answer is cached for a day (five minutes
after a failure).
* **Badge** (`[mador-badge]`) and **certificate** (`[mador-certificato]`): on the
pages where you place them, the visitor’s browser loads the image `https://mador.
ai/r/{report code}/badge.svg` and the page `https://mador.ai/r/{report code}/
certificato` (in an iframe). Like any image or embedded page, this sends the
visitor’s IP address, browser details and the address of the page to mador.ai.
* **Settings page**: **Settings Mador** shows your real badge, so the administrator’s
browser loads `https://mador.ai/r/{report code}/badge.svg` while that page is
open, with the same details as above.
* **Verification**: the meta tag is read by Mador when you press the verify button
in the Mador area; the plugin itself sends nothing.
Mador terms of service: https://mador.ai/en/termini
Mador privacy policy: https://
mador.ai/en/privacy
## Screenshots
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## Installation
1. In WordPress: **Plugins Add New Plugin**, search for “Mador”, **Install Now**,
then **Activate**. You can also upload the zip from [mador.ai/plugin](https://mador.ai/plugin)
with **Upload Plugin**.
2. Go to **Settings Mador**, paste your report code (the ten characters at the end
of your report address, `mador.ai/r/XXXXXXXXXX`; the whole address works too),
pick the language and save.
3. In the Mador area, under “Connect your site”, press **Check the meta tag**: the
tag is already on every page.
4. On the page that should carry your questions and answers, add a **Shortcode** block
with `[mador-faq]`.
5. Optional: `[mador-badge]` where the badge belongs (the footer is the usual spot),`[
mador-certificato]` on the page that should carry the certificate.
6. Optional: tick **Credit link** in the settings if you want the “Measured and written
with Mador” link under the questions and answers.
#### Shortcode attributes
Without attributes, the settings apply.
* `[mador-badge larghezza="180"]`: badge width in pixels (60 to 1000).
* `[mador-certificato altezza="1800"]`: certificate height in pixels (300 to 5000).
* `[mador-faq titolo="no"]`: without the section heading.
* `codice="..."` and `lingua="it|en|es"` on any of the three: for a site that shows
more than one business or another language.
## FAQ
### Do I need a Mador account?
Yes. The plugin shows on your site what Mador measured and wrote for your business:
without a report code it adds nothing to the site.
### Where do I find the report code?
At the end of the report address Mador sent you: `mador.ai/r/XXXXXXXXXX`. Ten characters.
You can paste the whole address: the plugin keeps the code.
### Does the plugin add links to my site?
Only where you ask for them. The badge links to your certificate, and the certificate
has an “Open the certificate” link, but both appear only where you place their shortcodes.
The credit link under the questions and answers is off by default; you can turn
it on in **Settings Mador**. When on, it is marked `nofollow`.
### Why does `[mador-faq]` show nothing?
The questions and answers appear once your article is published on Mador. Until
then the shortcode prints nothing: visitors see nothing, administrators see a notice
saying why.
### Does the badge stay frozen at the day I installed it?
No. The badge image is generated by Mador and cached for a day, so it always shows
the latest measurement.
### Does it slow the site down?
No. It adds one `` tag; the badge and the certificate load lazily, and only
where you put them. The questions and answers are fetched from the server and kept
for a day.
### What happens when I delete the plugin?
It removes its settings and its cached questions and answers, on every site of a
network.
### My site is not on WordPress.
You can connect it by hand, or send the instructions to whoever manages it, from
the Mador area.
### Where is the source code?
On GitHub: [github.com/vladIDH/mador-wordpress](https://github.com/vladIDH/mador-wordpress).
Issues and pull requests are welcome.
## Reviews
There are no reviews for this plugin.
## Contributors & Developers
“Mador” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
* [ khlumen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/khlumen/)
[Translate “Mador” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mador)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mador/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/mador/), or subscribe to
the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/mador/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/mador/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 1.1.1
* Translations now come only from translate.wordpress.org: the plugin no longer
ships its own `languages/` folder.
#### 1.1.0
* The “Measured and written with Mador” link under `[mador-faq]` is now optional
and off by default: turn it on under **Settings Mador Credit link**.
* Translations load through WordPress (language packs and the bundled `languages/`
folder), without a manual loading call.
* readme: external services, privacy policy and terms of service; code documentation
brought to the WordPress coding standards.
#### 1.0.0
* First public release: site verification tag, `[mador-faq]` with FAQPage structured
data, `[mador-badge]`, `[mador-certificato]`, settings page in English, Italian
and Spanish, full cleanup on uninstall.
## Meta
* Version **1.1.1**
* Last updated **17 hours ago**
* Active installations **Fewer than 10**
* WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher **
* Tested up to **7.1.4**
* PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
* Tags
* [AI](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ai/)[badge](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/badge/)
[faq](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/faq/)[structured data](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/structured-data/)
[verification](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/verification/)
* [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mador/advanced/)
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## Contributors
* [ khlumen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/khlumen/)
## Support
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