PressHangar AI Citations

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Billions of people use AI assistants every day. Many get useful information from your WordPress site—but few ever know it came from you. PressHangar AI Citations changes that.

Most WordPress plugins block AI crawlers or ignore them. PressHangar AI Citations takes the opposite approach: it optimizes your site to be cited, not just crawled. Whether you want to appear in ChatGPT’s responses, show up in AI search results, or earn attribution in Perplexity answers, PressHangar AI Citations gives you the tools to make it happen.

The plugin includes four powerful features:

1. AI Crawler Manager
Control how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Apple Intelligence, and other AI systems access your site. Set per-bot Allow/Block preferences for GPTBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, and 10+ others. PressHangar AI Citations includes a unique physical robots.txt mode that works where other robots.txt plugins fail—ensuring your preferences are never silently overridden by other plugins.

2. FAQ Schema Auto-Generation
Automatically detect Q&A patterns in your posts and generate valid FAQPage JSON-LD schema. AI assistants use structured data to understand and cite your content. PressHangar AI Citations generates it for you, with smart duplicate guards to prevent conflicts with Yoast or Rank Math.

3. llms.txt Generator
Create and maintain an llms.txt file—an emerging standard that some AI systems are beginning to recognize. While the ecosystem is still developing, llms.txt can help newer models discover and understand your site’s purpose.

4. Measurement Links
Quick links to Bing AI Performance, Google Search Console, and the Rich Result Test—so you can track whether your optimization efforts are working.

Built on Honesty
We designed PressHangar AI Citations with a principle: tell you what actually works and what’s experimental. ChatGPT citations aren’t guaranteed, even with perfect setup—Google and OpenAI control their systems. But the evidence shows that sites following these practices do get cited more often. We flag emerging tactics like llms.txt with honest disclaimers, so you know what to expect.

PressHangar AI Citations is free, open source, and created by PressHangar—the team behind WordPress solutions that actually help your business. PressHangar is a brand of Musubiemu LLC.

External services

This plugin can connect to the IndexNow API (api.indexnow.org) to notify participating search engines (such as Microsoft Bing and Yandex) when your content changes, so they can discover and re-crawl it faster.

IndexNow is optional. It is used only when you enable it and generate an IndexNow key on the plugin’s IndexNow settings screen. If you do not enable it, the plugin does not contact any external service.

What is sent, and when: while IndexNow is enabled, the plugin sends a request to api.indexnow.org each time you publish, update, or delete a post or page, and when you use the „manual submit” button on the IndexNow screen. Each request contains only: your site’s host name, your IndexNow key, the URL of the key file hosted on your own site, and the list of your own site’s URLs that changed. No personal data and no visitor data is sent.

The shared endpoint at api.indexnow.org is operated by the participating search engines. Please review their terms and privacy information:

• IndexNow: https://www.indexnow.org/
• IndexNow documentation: https://www.indexnow.org/documentation
• IndexNow terms: https://www.indexnow.org/terms
• Microsoft Privacy Statement (Bing operates the shared endpoint): https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement

Credits

PressHangar AI Citations is made by PressHangar (https://presshangar.com). We build WordPress plugins that help your site get discovered and cited.

Support

For support, questions, or feature requests, visit https://presshangar.com/presshangar-ai-citations or check the plugin’s GitHub repository.