WordPress SEO in the AI Era: The Complete Guide
We measured what 359 live WordPress sites serve to AI crawlers: plugin share, schema, llms.txt adoption, and the heading defect on a quarter of them.
RankX AI blog
WordPress runs a large share of the web, and its defaults decide how readable a site is to AI crawlers. This cluster covers WordPress and CMS practice for AI search: themes and plugins that help or hurt, publishing workflows, and how RankX AI publishes to WordPress, writing the SEO title and meta description through the site's SEO plugin.
WordPress and CMS
We measured what 359 live WordPress sites serve to AI crawlers: plugin share, schema, llms.txt adoption, and the heading defect on a quarter of them.
WordPress serves robots.txt virtually, and the block lists its plugins install disallow the crawlers that decide AI citations. An audit of 175 tokens.
WordPress and CMS is one topic on the RankX AI blog. Related topics: Platform Playbooks and GEO Fundamentals.