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WordPress AI search readiness checker

Inspect a public WordPress page, understand its technical audit results, and check the WordPress settings that can affect search discovery.

◎ For marketers⌘ For developers✧ For researchers

One page per domain report · Public HTTP(S) only · Cross-origin redirects are blocked; use the final website address.

A WordPress checklist you can actually use

Start with one published article or service page, not your login page. This checker uses the same eight technical checks as the main audit. It does not log in, identify your plugins or confirm that WordPress is installed.

  1. Review visibility. For a site intended to be public, inspect Settings → Reading → Search engine visibility. The “Discourage search engines” setting asks engines not to index the site. Keep staging sites and private content restricted.
  2. Locate the real sitemap. WordPress core introduced /wp-sitemap.xml in version 5.5. An SEO plugin may replace or disable it. Open the actual sitemap and check its declaration in robots.txt. Citable reads declared locations; if none are declared, it tries /sitemap.xml. A missing fallback does not prove WordPress has no sitemap.
  3. Inspect the published HTML. Confirm the page title, description and canonical after theme or plugin changes. Avoid two plugins emitting conflicting markup. Citable checks initial HTML, not a browser-rendered copy.
  4. Use truthful structured data. Describe the visible article, service or organization accurately. The JSON-LD result checks basic parsing; validate detailed schema requirements separately.
  5. Change one thing and rescan. Save a dated report before and after. Use Search Console and Bing to check actual indexing; use your own analytics to measure visits.

Example: if Citable cannot find /sitemap.xml but your working sitemap is /wp-sitemap.xml, verify the robots.txt declaration before rebuilding your sitemap or buying a plugin.

A WordPress setting can affect indexing even when robots access looks allowed. This audit is not a complete noindex or indexing diagnosis. No paid plugin is required to try Citable, and passing the checklist does not guarantee ranking or AI citations.

WordPress reading settings · WordPress core sitemap documentation · Follow the practical readiness checklist

Read the official Google documentation ↗

This tool runs Citable's full eight-check audit and highlights the relevant check. No signup required during public beta.

FROM DISCOVERY TO TRUST

Why AI search visibility matters

When an AI answer cites your work, readers can follow the source to your website. Clear, accessible content makes your expertise easier to understand and verify.

Relevant visits

Help readers exploring your topic find the original page. Visits and conversions still need separate measurement.

Verifiable expertise

Give researchers clear facts, authorship and sources they can check. Publish evidence worth referencing.

A shared action plan

Connect marketing priorities with concrete technical tasks your developer can review.

Educational links, not integrations or endorsements. Citable checks your page; it does not query these services, measure actual citations or guarantee inclusion.

LET’S TALK

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Have a question, a confusing result or a suggestion? Tell us which page you checked and what you noticed.

Please do not send passwords, access keys or private customer information.

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Messages are private to the Citable team and retained for 90 days. This form does not send email.

WHAT THE SCORE MEASURES

Eight checks, with their limits visible.

AI search tool permissions 30 · Initial HTML text 15 · Metadata 15 · JSON-LD 15 · Sitemap 10 · Heading outline 5 · Canonical/social tags 5 · Optional llms.txt 5.

Unavailable resources remain unknown. An incomplete audit displays a possible score range. Short text does not prove JavaScript dependence. robots.txt is a permission signal; this scanner does not impersonate provider crawlers.

Free summary

Scores, check states, timestamp and measurement limits.

Paid details

Same immutable snapshot, full evidence, actions and downloadable drafts. Checkout opens only when configured.