Four47 Labs AI Visibility Controls

Manage llms.txt, visual robots.txt rules, AI crawler access, effective robots.txt interpretation and technical readiness checks from one WordPress dashboard. Four47 Labs AI Visibility Controls gives site administrators a focused set of tools to review and manage how a WordPress site presents itself to search engines and AI-related crawlers. The plugin brings together llms.txt generation, robots.txt management, crawler visibility checks, and a technical readiness audit in one WordPress administration interface. llms.txt Create and serve an llms.txt file from WordPress without editing files manually. You can:

• Enable or disable llms.txt.
• Add a site description and organization information.
• Select which pages, posts, categories, and supported public post types should be represented.
• Use detected descriptions or provide custom descriptions for selected content.
• Review the generated public llms.txt file.

When available, Four47 Labs AI Visibility Controls can use descriptions from supported SEO metadata before falling back to WordPress excerpts or cleaned content. robots.txt Manage the WordPress virtual robots.txt file from the administration area. You can:

• Keep common WordPress areas away from crawlers.
• Add paths you do not want crawled.
• Select individual pages to disallow.
• Include the site sitemap.
• Add supported advanced directives.
• Review the resulting robots.txt output.

Four47 Labs AI Visibility Controls distinguishes between a WordPress virtual robots.txt file and a physical robots.txt file when this can be detected. AI crawler controls Review and configure robots.txt directives for supported AI-related crawlers, including:

• OAI-SearchBot
• GPTBot
• Google-Extended

The plugin also interprets the effective robots.txt rules and shows whether access to the site root is allowed or blocked for these crawlers. Allowing a crawler does not guarantee that it will visit, index, cite, mention, or rank a site. Server, firewall, CDN, hosting, and other access controls can also affect crawler access. Technical audit The audit provides a technical readiness score and individual checks covering areas such as public accessibility, llms.txt, robots.txt, supported AI crawlers, and configuration consistency. The score is a configuration aid. It is not an SEO score and does not predict rankings or visibility in any search engine or AI service. What AI Visibility does not do Four47 Labs AI Visibility Controls does not guarantee inclusion, ranking, citations, mentions, or traffic from search engines or AI assistants. It does not replace a complete SEO plugin and does not control third-party crawler behavior.

1. Upload the four47-labs-ai-visibility-controls folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install the plugin ZIP from Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
2. Activate Four47 Labs AI Visibility Controls from the Plugins screen.
3. Open Four47 Labs AI Visibility Controls in the WordPress administration menu.
4. Configure llms.txt and robots.txt according to your site's requirements.
5. Use AI Visibility and Audit to review the effective configuration.

Before changing robots.txt rules, review any existing crawler directives used by your site, hosting provider, security tools, CDN, or other plugins.

1.0.0

• Unified the Dashboard score and quick audit with the same audit report used by the full Audit screen.
• Removed per-check point labels from the Dashboard quick audit to avoid presenting two scoring models.
• Added a search filter for long robots.txt page lists.
• Finalized the first stable release after public llms.txt, robots.txt, crawler visibility, and audit validation.

0.7.37

• Clarified AI crawler visibility so an absent root directive is shown as "No rule" instead of being presented as an explicit allow rule.
• Added rewrite-rule cleanup on plugin deactivation.
• Refreshed Spanish translation metadata.

0.7.36

• Improved automatic llms.txt descriptions by ranking prose candidates and avoiding structured lists and recurring boilerplate.
• Improved llms.txt automatic descriptions to prefer meaningful prose paragraphs over route statistics, tables and structured page data.

0.7.32

• Prepared plugin metadata and readme for WordPress.org distribution.
• Documented llms.txt, robots.txt, AI crawler controls, and technical audit behavior.
• Added installation, FAQ, screenshots, privacy, and crawler limitation information.
• No functional changes to the plugin's public-file generation or audit logic.