Citedon, AI Search Readiness & Schema

Buyers increasingly ask AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude) what to use, and those engines answer with a short list of names. Being on that list starts with being "agent-ready": technically structured so AI engines and agents can read your pages, understand them, and recommend them. Citedon makes and keeps your site agent-ready. The Citedon service audits your pages, measures across multiple AI engines whether you are being recommended, and generates the agent-ready structured data (schema) your pages are missing. The Citedon Connector is the part that applies that structured data to your WordPress site and reports back, so the service can verify the change and keep it current as the engines shift. Citedon sells readiness, a technical state we can measure, apply, and maintain. We prove it with real multi-engine measurement. We never promise that any engine will cite you, because that is controlled by the engines, not by us. The brain stays on the Citedon service. This plugin is a thin client. It fetches the agent-ready JSON-LD your Citedon project generates for each page, merges it into your site, and reports what it applied. It does not contain the audit, the measurement, or the schema-generation logic; those run on the Citedon service, which does the substantial work. How it works

• Connect once with a site key from your Citedon dashboard.
• On each page, the plugin fetches that page's agent-ready data from the Citedon service.
• It merges the data into your existing schema graph through Yoast or Rank Math, or emits it on its own if no SEO plugin owns the graph.
• It reports what it applied so the Citedon WATCH can re-check and re-apply over time.

Safe by design

• Additive only. It adds missing nodes and properties; it never edits your content or overwrites your existing schema.
• No duplication. If your site already declares a schema type, Citedon wires into it instead of adding a second one.
• Consent-gated. The connector only applies recommendations you have approved in your Citedon dashboard.
• Validated. A pre-publish guard drops any change that would break your schema graph, so bad structured data never reaches a live page.
• Reversible. Deactivate the plugin (or turn off the Enabled toggle) and the augmentation stops. Uninstalling removes every setting it stored.
• Encrypted. The site key is only sent over HTTPS.

You need a Citedon account This plugin connects to the Citedon service using a site key you generate in your dashboard at https://citedon.com. The free plan covers the readiness audit. Applying the agent-ready layer and continuous monitoring are paid plans. See https://citedon.com/pricing.

1.4.0

• Internationalization: all admin strings are now translatable (text domain citedon-connector), with a bundled translation template. Added a suggested privacy-policy disclosure and a clear External services section in the readme. Directory-readiness and housekeeping; no change to how schema is applied.

1.3.1

• Settings screen polish: a Show/Hide toggle to reveal the pasted Site key, the Apply checkbox is now on by default (consent still lives on the Citedon service: only fixes you approve in the dashboard are ever applied), and a "Where do I find these?" helper that links straight to your project's Connect WordPress card.

1.3.0

• Pre-publish validation guard, auto-rollback fast-path, and pre-approval preview diff. Each artifact is validated as it merges: one that would duplicate a single-instance schema type is dropped (the other fixes still apply) and reported as blocked, so bad schema never reaches a live page. A short revocation poll drops a reverted fix within ~90 seconds even while the page cache is warm. A dry-run preview computes the real before/after a suggested fix would produce, without ever emitting it, so you can review the exact change before approving.

1.2.0

• Applied report now sends the real before/after graph summary (node count, @types, @ids) instead of stub notes. Captured for all three integration paths: Yoast, Rank Math, and own-output.

1.1.0

• Security hardening. The connector now whitelists the schema.org types and value shapes it will merge, and drops any artifact node carrying markup, an active-content URI, control characters, or an unexpected type, before it ever reaches your page. The Core URL must use HTTPS (plain HTTP is allowed only for local development), so your site key is never sent in the clear.

1.0.0

• First public release: connect by site key, augment through Yoast and Rank Math (with the Rank Math configured-state gate) or emit on its own, additive and idempotent merge with no duplication, report-back to the Citedon service, Test connection, and a clean uninstall.