Rank Prompt Connector

Rank Prompt writes articles that AI assistants and search engines can cite, and publishes them to your WordPress site with an application password. This plugin makes that publish complete.

SEO fields that stick. Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO and SEOPress each keep the SEO title, meta description, focus keyword, social title and description and canonical URL their own way. Current Yoast SEO versions accept the title, description and keyword over the WordPress REST API on posts only, and not the social fields or the canonical URL; Rank Math accepts none; SEOPress accepts all of them. Without this plugin the fields left out are dropped silently. With it, the fields of the SEO plugin you run are saved on posts and pages, for users who can edit them.

Structured data in the head. WordPress removes script tags from a post’s body unless its author may post unfiltered HTML, so structured data sent in the body often never reaches the page. Rank Prompt saves the JSON-LD of a post or page in one field instead, and the plugin prints it in that page’s head. Only valid JSON is kept.

Language links in the head. When a page has versions in other languages but does not point to them, Rank Prompt can save the missing language links (hreflang) of that page, and the plugin prints them in its head. Only link tags with a language code and an http or https address are kept. A multilingual plugin such as WPML or Polylang keeps printing the links it knows.

llms.txt and robots.txt. When an administrator connects the site, Rank Prompt can save the text of llms.txt and robots.txt. The plugin serves the saved llms.txt at /llms.txt and the saved robots.txt as WordPress’s own; with nothing saved, WordPress’s defaults stay. A file of either name in the site’s folder, such as the llms.txt Yoast SEO writes when its llms.txt feature is on, takes precedence, and Rank Prompt leaves it alone.

IndexNow on publish. The plugin generates an IndexNow key for your site and serves it at /{key}.txt. Rank Prompt uses it to tell Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver about a post the moment it goes live, instead of waiting for the next crawl.

A free check of what AI can read. Settings, Rank Prompt shows whether your site has an llms.txt file and which search engine and AI crawlers your robots.txt lets in, with search engines flagged first because blocking one removes your pages from that index.

AI crawler visits, if you turn them on. Once the site is connected in Rank Prompt (AI crawlers), an administrator can turn on sending in Settings, Rank Prompt. Each visit from an AI crawler such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot is then sent to Rank Prompt every five minutes, so you can see which pages those crawlers read and where they hit errors. Visits from people are never noted.

The plugin works without a Rank Prompt account. The SEO fields and IndexNow parts are used when you connect the site in Rank Prompt (Integrations, WordPress).

External services

This plugin links to the free Rank Prompt AI visibility check at rankprompt.com from its settings page. Nothing is sent to rankprompt.com unless you follow that link.

AI crawler visits: when the site is connected in Rank Prompt and an administrator turns sending on in Settings, Rank Prompt, the plugin sends every five minutes, to the Rank Prompt address it was given when connected (api.rankprompt.com), the visits whose user agent names an AI crawler: the time, the host, the page path without its query string, the response status, the user agent and the visitor’s IP address. Rank Prompt uses the address only to check the visit came from the crawler’s company and does not store it. Visits from anyone else are never noted or sent. Turning sending off, disconnecting in Rank Prompt or uninstalling the plugin stops it. Rank Prompt’s terms: https://rankprompt.com/terms/ and privacy policy: https://rankprompt.com/privacy-policy/