AI Mention Visibility

AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini and Perplexity increasingly send crawlers to read websites so they can decide what to recommend. Is AI reading yours? This plugin tells you, right inside your WordPress dashboard. It records verified visits from AI crawlers to your site and shows them on a dashboard inside WordPress: which assistant came, what it was doing (training, search indexing, or fetching a page for a user), which pages it read most, and whether real people are arriving from AI answers. It also runs a readiness check on whether AI can read your site at all. Verified, not guessed. A user-agent string that says "GPTBot" is trivial to fake. This plugin confirms each visit against the official published IP ranges and reverse-DNS records for each crawler before it counts. Anything that fails verification is excluded, not counted. Private by design. Only AI-crawler visits are reported. Ordinary human page views are never recorded or sent. Raw IP addresses are used only on your own server, for verification, and never leave it - only a non-reversible token does. No slowdown. Detection is a single lightweight check; all verification and reporting happen in the background, never while a visitor waits. What you see

• Which AI crawlers reached your site (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Googlebot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, Applebot, ClaudeBot and more as they are added).
• What each one was doing: training, search, or a user-triggered fetch - kept separate, never merged.
• The pages AI reads most, and whether real visitors are arriving from AI answers.
• A "can AI read your site?" readiness check with plain-English fixes.

Free account The plugin needs a free AI Mention account to store and display your data. You can create one without leaving WordPress - the first-run screen has a "Create your free account" button that sets it up and connects your site in one step. No card required. If you already have an account, paste your collection key on the Settings tab instead. Honest about limits We show what reaches your WordPress server. Bots served entirely from a full-page cache or a CDN edge may not touch WordPress, so they may not appear here. We would rather undercount than overcount.

1. Install and activate the plugin.
2. Open the AI Mention menu in the left sidebar.
3. Click Create your free account and submit the short form (business name, website and email are pre-filled from your site). This creates your account and connects your site in one step. Or, if you already have an account, paste your collection key on the Settings tab.
4. If your site is behind Cloudflare, select it on the Settings tab so real visitor IPs are read correctly. Otherwise leave "No".

That's it. Verified AI-crawler visits start appearing on your dashboard as AI discovers your site.

1.0.0

• First public release: verified AI-crawler detection (IP-range and forward-confirmed reverse-DNS), background processing, Cloudflare-aware real-IP resolution, an in-WordPress visibility dashboard, one-step free-account connect, and a Contact Support tool.