Markdown for Agents and Statistics

Markdown for Agents and Statistics converts your WordPress content to Markdown and serves it
to AI agents and language model tools that request it via HTTP content negotiation
(Accept: text/markdown).

The Chancery Lane Project is a charity that helps organisations reduce emissions using the power of legal documents and processes. We’ve published this plugin as we believe that making content more legible for AI Agents makes a meaningful difference to their energy usage – not only by reducing the amount of tokens required (by up to 90% over HTML) to consume the content, but also minimising the server resources required to render, process and display pages at source.

How it works:

1. Posts and taxonomy archive pages are converted to Markdown and saved as static
   files on disk inside wp-content/uploads/.
2. When a visitor (or AI agent) requests a page with Accept: text/markdown in
   the HTTP headers, WordPress serves the pre-generated .md file directly —
   no page render required.
3. A <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"> tag is added to each page’s
   so agents can discover Markdown versions automatically.

Features:

• Content negotiation (Accept: text/markdown, ?output_format=md, or known AI User-Agents)
• Taxonomy archive support — category, tag, and custom taxonomy term pages served as Markdown post listings
• Automatic Markdown generation on post save; taxonomy archives auto-update when any post in the term changes
• AJAX bulk generation with live progress counter — no page timeouts on large sites
• Per-post-type field configuration — choose which meta/ACF fields go in frontmatter or body
• ACF support with dot notation for nested group fields (e.g. group.subfield)
• Content fields option — use ACF fields as the body content instead of post_content
• Manifest generation with content hashes and change tracking per post type
• Incremental export — only re-export changed documents (--incremental)
• Delta file (changes.json) for RAG system sync
• Access statistics — logs AI agent requests with a dedicated stats admin page
• Optional frontmatter fields — hierarchy (parent/ancestors/children IDs), author display name, root-relative featured image paths
• Topics section — appends a ## Topics section with linked taxonomy terms to the Markdown body
• Export preview — preview generated Markdown inline in the post editor without writing to disk
• WP-CLI commands: generate, generate-taxonomies, prune-stats, status, delete
• Fully unit-tested