Adds an opt-in auto-update toggle (off by default) and a crawl-to-referral conversion insight with daily chart on the AI Referrals page -- no breaking changes.<\/p>","1.2.4":"
Directory listing\/SEO tweaks (tags, description, quick start) -- no functional changes.<\/p>","1.2.3":"
Adds plugin directory listing assets (icon, banner, screenshots) -- no functional changes.<\/p>","1.2.2":"
Plugin Check annotation follow-up -- no functional changes.<\/p>","1.2.1":"
Updates bundled Chart.js to 4.5.1 and fixes inline-script enqueueing per WordPress.org review feedback -- no functional changes.<\/p>","1.2.0":"
Adds AI Referral Traffic tracking (new "AI Referrals" page) alongside existing crawler logging -- no breaking changes.<\/p>","1.1.0":"
Plugin renamed\/re-slugged for WordPress.org directory compliance -- no functional changes.<\/p>","1.0.1":"
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FocusWeb AI Crawler Monitor is an observation-only plugin that helps you track and understand how AI crawlers interact with your WordPress site, and how much AI referral traffic it sends you. It never blocks or alters requests -- it simply logs matching visits and gives you a dashboard to review them. Think of it as AI SEO \/ answer engine optimization (AEO) visibility for site owners: see which AI crawlers are reading your content, and which AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, and more) are actually sending you visitors.<\/p>\n\n
Quick start:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n How to use this data to optimize for AI:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Detected bots (built in, configurable):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Roadmap (planned direction, not a commitment to specific versions or dates):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Suggestions are welcome via the support forum.<\/p>\n\n\n No. This plugin is observation-only. It never returns a different response, denies a request, or modifies robots.txt. It only records matching visits for your review.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. Detection happens via a WordPress The plugin skips It stores the requesting IP address and User-Agent string for each logged visit. IP anonymization (masking the last octet\/segment) is enabled by default. You can also configure automatic log deletion after a set number of days.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. It only generates suggested content in a textarea, with a button to download it as The bot registry lives in Only when the referring platform happens to expose it, and only for actual human click-throughs -- not for crawler visits. AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc.) never transmit the triggering question over HTTP, so this is not available for bot traffic. For AI Referral Traffic (a person clicking a citation link in an AI answer), the plugin checks the Referer header for a query parameter; Perplexity is the main platform known to include it. Many platforms, including ChatGPT's web app, strip the referrer down to bare origin for privacy, so the captured query will often be empty.<\/p><\/dd>\n Not yet. llms.txt is a community-proposed convention (introduced in 2024) suggesting a simple Markdown file at your site root to help AI systems find your key content. As of today, no major AI crawler or assistant (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, etc.) has publicly confirmed that it reads or prioritizes llms.txt in production. Publishing one is a reasonable, low-effort bet on where things may be heading -- not a guaranteed way to influence how AI systems treat your site. This plugin only generates suggested content for you to review and place manually; it never assumes llms.txt is authoritative or required.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n\n
curl<\/code> request spoofing a bot User-Agent) -- GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and others are detected automatically.<\/li>\n\n
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init<\/code>-hook based detection, no server log file access required.<\/li>\n\/wp-admin\/*<\/code>, \/checkout\/*<\/code>).<\/li>\n\n
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focusweb-ai-crawler-monitor<\/code> folder to \/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code>.<\/li>\n\n
Does this plugin block AI crawlers?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it need access to my server's raw access logs?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
init<\/code> hook reading the User-Agent header on each request, so it works identically on shared and managed hosting.<\/p><\/dd>\nWill it log every request from these bots?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
wp-admin<\/code>, wp-login.php<\/code>, admin-ajax.php<\/code>, REST API requests, and static asset requests (images, CSS, JS, fonts, etc.) to keep the log focused on actual content visits. You can add further exclusions (e.g. \/checkout\/*<\/code>) on the Settings page.<\/p><\/dd>\nDoes it store personal data?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does the llms.txt generator write files to my server?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
llms.txt<\/code>. You place the file at your site root manually, avoiding filesystem permission issues on managed hosting.<\/p><\/dd>\nCan I add more bots to track?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
includes\/class-detector.php<\/code> (AICM_Detector::get_known_bots()<\/code>) as a simple key\/value array, so developers can extend it by adding a new entry with a label and a User-Agent substring to match.<\/p><\/dd>\nCan the plugin show me what someone asked ChatGPT\/Perplexity that led them to my site?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is llms.txt an officially supported standard?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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auto_update_plugins<\/code> list directly, so it always stays in sync with the native \"Enable auto-updates\" link on the Plugins screen -- off by default, same as core.<\/li>\n1.2.4<\/h4>\n\n
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seo<\/code> tag for analytics<\/code>, added a Quick Start section, and worked in AEO (answer engine optimization) and \"track\" terminology to better match how site owners search for this plugin on WordPress.org. No functional changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n1.2.3<\/h4>\n\n
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PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter<\/code> warnings in class-logger.php with justified ignore comments (all queries use fixed internal table-name identifiers passed through $wpdb->prepare()<\/code> for any real parameters -- no functional change).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n1.2.1<\/h4>\n\n
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wp_enqueue_script()<\/code> file (assets\/llms-generator.js).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n1.2.0<\/h4>\n\n
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focusweb-ai-crawler-monitor<\/code> to comply with WordPress.org's plugin naming policy (unique\/brand-prefixed name required for directory submission). No functional changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n1.0.1<\/h4>\n\n
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load_plugin_textdomain()<\/code> call, justified\/annotated direct-DB and nonce-verification warnings, prefixed template-local variables, and updated readme metadata (tags, tested-up-to, short description).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n1.0.0<\/h4>\n\n
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