{"id":394301,"date":"2026-10-29T21:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/citedby-ai-search-check\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T21:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:34:19","slug":"seenby-ai-access-check","status":"publish","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/seenby-ai-access-check\/","author":23594718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"version":"0.2.0","stable_tag":"0.2.0","tested":"7.1.4","requires":"5.8","requires_php":"7.4","requires_plugins":null,"header_name":"Seenby AI Access Check","header_author":"CitedBy","header_description":"One click in wp-admin shows whether AI-search crawlers can read your site: robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap and a free page check from citedby.eu.","assets_banners_color":"","last_updated":"2026-10-29 21:34:19","external_support_url":"","external_repository_url":"","donate_link":"","header_plugin_uri":"https:\/\/citedby.eu\/wordpress-plugin","header_author_uri":"https:\/\/citedby.eu","rating":0,"author_block_rating":0,"active_installs":0,"downloads":60,"num_ratings":0,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"author_block_count":0,"sections":["description","installation","faq","changelog"],"tags":{"0.2.0":{"tag":"0.2.0","author":"citedby","date":"2026-10-29 21:34:19","revision":3774072}},"upgrade_notice":[],"ratings":[],"assets_icons":[],"assets_banners":[],"assets_blueprints":{},"all_blocks":[],"tagged_versions":["0.2.0"],"block_files":[],"assets_screenshots":[],"screenshots":[]},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[12928,244604,12753,186,1557],"plugin_category":[55],"plugin_contributors":[289599],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-394301","plugin","type-plugin","status-publish","hentry","plugin_tags-crawlers","plugin_tags-llms-txt","plugin_tags-robots-txt","plugin_tags-seo","plugin_tags-sitemap","plugin_category-seo-and-marketing","plugin_contributors-citedby","plugin_committers-citedby"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/seenby-ai-access-check.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[],"raw_content":"<!--section=description-->\n<p>AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Copilot send their own crawlers to read websites. If your robots.txt, a security plugin or a firewall turns them away, your site cannot be quoted in answers.<\/p>\n\n<p>Open <strong>Tools &gt; AI-Search Check<\/strong> and press the button. The plugin shows:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Whether WordPress itself asks search engines to stay away (Settings &gt; Reading).<\/li>\n<li>Whether robots.txt closes your whole site to ten named crawlers: OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, CCBot and Bingbot.<\/li>\n<li>Whether you have a sitemap and an llms.txt.<\/li>\n<li>A page check run from outside by citedby.eu: is your home page text in the HTML a crawler receives, and does it carry Organization structured data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Then it links to the full CitedBy audit, which crawls up to your plan's page limit and gives you the exact fix per page.<\/p>\n\n<h4>What the plugin does not do<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>It does not change any setting, file or content on your site.<\/li>\n<li>It does not add anything to your visitors' pages. No front-end code, no cookies, no tracking.<\/li>\n<li>It sends nothing until you press the button, and it stores nothing in your database.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>External service<\/h3>\n\n<p>The plugin calls one external service, CitedBy (citedby.eu), only when an administrator presses \"Run the check\".<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>What is sent: your home page address (<code>home_url()<\/code>), your admin language (en, fr or nl) and the tag <code>wp-plugin<\/code> so we can count how many checks come from this plugin. Standard request data (your server's IP address) is received by any web service. The IP address is used to rate-limit and is not stored with your site address.<\/li>\n<li>What comes back: the page check result shown on screen.<\/li>\n<li>When: each press of the button.<\/li>\n<li>Service: https:\/\/citedby.eu. Terms: https:\/\/citedby.eu\/terms. Privacy policy: https:\/\/citedby.eu\/privacy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The link \"Get the full audit\" opens citedby.eu in a new tab with <code>source=wp-plugin<\/code> in the address. It is a normal link; nothing is sent unless you click it.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Upload the <code>seenby-ai-access-check<\/code> folder to <code>\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code>, or install it from Plugins &gt; Add New.<\/li>\n<li>Activate the plugin.<\/li>\n<li>Open Tools &gt; AI-Search Check and press \"Run the check\".<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"does%20it%20block%20or%20allow%20crawlers%20for%20me%3F\"><h3>Does it block or allow crawlers for me?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. It reports. You change robots.txt yourself, or the full audit tells you the exact line.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"why%20is%20a%20crawler%20shown%20as%20not%20blocked%20when%20my%20firewall%20blocks%20it%3F\"><h3>Why is a crawler shown as not blocked when my firewall blocks it?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>The local part reads robots.txt only. A firewall or CDN rule is not visible from inside WordPress. The outside check shows what citedby.eu receives.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"do%20i%20need%20an%20account%3F\"><h3>Do I need an account?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. The check is free and anonymous.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>0.1.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>First release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>0.1.1<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Tested up to WordPress 7.1 (run in WordPress Playground with the Plugin Check plugin: no errors).<\/li>\n<li>A site on a local or private address now gets a clear message instead of \"citedby.eu did not answer\".<\/li>\n<li>A crawler that only feeds model training (GPTBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, CCBot) shown as blocked is now reported as a normal choice, not as a fix.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>0.2.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Renamed from \"CitedBy AI-Search Check\" at the plugin team's request: new name and slug, same checks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"One button in wp-admin shows whether AI-search crawlers can read your site: robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap and a free page check.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/394301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394301"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/citedby"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=394301"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=394301"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=394301"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=394301"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=394301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}