Toutmark AI Citation

Toutmark is an AI citation platform aligned with Google’s May 2026 AI Optimization guidance. This plugin connects your WordPress site to your Toutmark account and adds the technical signals that AI engines reward — all visible to every visitor, with no user-agent-conditional content delivery and no hidden text.

What it does

• Schema injection. Emits standard schema.org JSON-LD on each page via the wp_head hook, sourced from your Toutmark account. Visible to humans and bots alike.

• /llms.txt + /llms-full.txt files. Serves public files at the root of your site (used by ChatGPT and Perplexity): llms.txt is the index, llms-full.txt carries the full text of your published content so AI systems can read everything in one fetch. Both populated from your Toutmark account, both visible to any visitor.

• One link to the pages Toutmark publishes. Each of those pages lives at its own address with nothing pointing at it, which means visitors cannot find it and crawlers may never reach it. This adds an ordinary, visible link on every page: in the footer by default, or as one item at the end of your main menu if you choose the top menu. Once there are more than three pages, Toutmark puts an answers hub page that lists them all in your approval queue, and once you approve it and it is published, the link is a single link to it; until then, the pages themselves are linked in the footer. If you choose the top menu (in Toutmark, or under “Where it goes” here on a site connected with its Toutmark key, which the daily check-in passes on), the hub page goes in your approval queue from your first page, since a menu takes one link; until it is published the page links stay in the footer, and a theme with no main menu keeps the link in the footer. The menu item is added as each page loads; your saved menus are never edited. Switch it off in settings, or place the [toutmark_hub_link] shortcode in your own footer instead.

• AI bot reachability. Runs a daily ping back to Toutmark; the Toutmark service then verifies that GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, ChatGPT-User, and Googlebot can reach your site and surfaces results in your dashboard.

• One-click connect. A “Connect to Toutmark” button creates a WordPress Application Password for your user account with core’s WP_Application_Passwords API and sends it to Toutmark over HTTPS. Toutmark uses it to publish the pages and posts you approve in your Toutmark dashboard, and to make the changes to your existing pages that you approve there. You can revoke it any time from Users → Profile → Application Passwords.

What it does NOT do

• Does not deliver different content to bots than to humans. Google’s spam policy treats user-agent-conditional content delivery as a manual-action risk. Toutmark refuses to do it on principle.

• Does not inject hidden text, white-on-white text, off-screen text, zero-size text, or display:none content blocks. Every character is visible to humans at full opacity, in normal document flow.

• The plugin itself does not modify your post content. Schema and llms.txt content are added via standard WordPress hooks ( wp_head, rewrite rules). Changes to your existing pages (for example a paragraph rewrite) are made by Toutmark through the standard REST API with the Application Password you connect, and only once they are approved.

• Does not add a page or post to your site without your approval. A new page goes live only after you approve it in your Toutmark dashboard. Edits to pages you already have follow the approval setting you choose there: ask every time, or automatic. Regulated businesses are never approved automatically.

• Does not need Toutmark to be reachable: if it is not, the plugin keeps serving the last copy it has. It needs an active Toutmark subscription to receive updates.

Compliance with Google’s May 2026 spam policy

Google’s updated spam policy targets user-agent-conditional content (cloaking), hidden or invisible text, “AI-only” content blocks visible only to LLM bots, and inauthentic mentions. Toutmark does none of these. Every signal we add is plainly visible to anyone who visits your site.

Requirements

• An active Toutmark subscription — sign up at toutmark.com.

• WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+.

• Application Passwords enabled (default in WordPress 5.6+; some security plugins disable them).

• Outbound HTTPS access from your server to toutmark.com.