About this plugin
txt file, a structured, AI-ready index that helps large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity understand your site’s most important content.
How llms.txt works
Traditional sitemaps and robots files guide search engines. But as AI-driven systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity increasingly ingest web content, they benefit from a clear, structured list of a site’s most important URLs.
txt offers that: a plain-text or Markdown list of essential public URLs, optionally annotated with titles, descriptions, and grouping, designed for AI consumption rather than general web crawling.
Key benefits
✅ AI discovery readiness: future-proof your site for AI indexing and content retrieval.
txt file on its own schedule.
✅ SEO plugin integration: works seamlessly with Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO, automatically excluding content marked as noindex or nofollow.
✅ Advanced controls: choose post types, customize file titles or descriptions, attach optional Markdown files, and trigger manual regeneration.
✅ Developer-friendly: includes filters such as llms_generator_get_post_meta_description for description logic, performance tuning, and custom indexing behavior.
✅ WooCommerce & multisite ready: respects product visibility rules and scales easily across large or networked sites.
Activation & setup
- Activate the plugin.
- Visit Settings → LLMs.txt to configure post types and update frequency (immediate, daily, or weekly).
- The plugin generates llms.txt and serves it from your site root.
- Content updates trigger automatic regeneration. All noindex/nofollow rules from your SEO plugin are respected.
Use cases for llms.txt
- Publishers, SaaS companies, developers, and documentation sites that want to make their content easier for AI systems to interpret.
- SEO-driven websites testing AI engine optimization tactics.
- Agencies and site owners preparing for the next phase of AI search and retrieval.
The llms.txt experiment & further reading
- Are AI bots actually reading llms.txt files?
- Everything we know about llms.txt