Foundash AI Access Check Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
People increasingly ask an AI assistant to recommend a business instead of searching for one. Before an assistant can recommend you, it has to read your website.
Your AI visibility starts here. If ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Google’s AI cannot reach your pages, nothing else you do for AI search matters, because there is nothing for them to read.
Plenty of sites block those assistants without the owner ever knowing. Security plugins, host defaults and robots.txt rules can all turn AI crawlers away while ordinary visitors see nothing wrong. If that is happening to you, no amount of good content will help, because nothing is being read.
This plugin checks, from your own dashboard:
- Whether ChatGPT (GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot), Claude (ClaudeBot), Perplexity (PerplexityBot) and Google AI (Google-Extended) are being served or refused
- Whether your robots.txt tells any of them to stay out
- Whether WordPress’s own “Discourage search engines” setting is on
- Whether your front page carries a noindex tag telling engines not to list it
- Whether your front page has structured data for an assistant to lift facts from
- Whether you have an llms.txt file
It then gives you one plain sentence saying where you stand.
Honest about what it finds
A refused crawler is not always a deliberate block, so this plugin does not shout about one. It also requests your site as Googlebot as a control. If Google is being refused too, you have a broken bot rule rather than an AI policy, and the plugin says exactly that, because that problem is bigger and costs you traffic today.
It only counts 401, 403 and 429 as a deliberate refusal. A 400 is a malformed request and a 500 is your server erroring, and calling either a block would be misleading.
The robots.txt reader follows the real rules rather than guessing. A commented-out line is not a block. A rule written for your site as a whole does not apply to a crawler that has its own rules further down. An Allow that cancels a Disallow is respected. Each of those, done carelessly, invents a block that is not there.
Every result shows the raw HTTP code and the exact robots.txt line behind it, so you can verify any claim it makes rather than taking it on trust.
Why there is no score
Other plugins in this space hand you a number out of 100 and a letter grade. This one does not, on purpose.
Every question it asks has a real answer. A crawler was served or it was refused. A robots.txt rule exists or it does not. Averaging answers like those into a grade throws away the part you can actually act on, and it makes a short list of plain facts look like a measurement it is not.
You get the facts instead: which crawlers were served, which were refused, the HTTP code each one returned, and the exact robots.txt line behind any claim. Every one of them is something you can check yourself.
What it cannot tell you
Requests come from your own server. If your site sits behind a CDN or firewall and your server bypasses it when calling its own address, a block at that edge will not appear here. Checking from outside your hosting is the only way to be sure.
A slow site gets a partial answer. The whole run is held to a wall clock budget so it cannot outlast PHP’s execution limit and leave you with a blank admin page. If your site is slow to answer requests from itself, the run stops early, the rows it never reached say “Could not test” instead of guessing, and it tells you it stopped.
Google-Extended is reported from robots.txt only. There is no such crawler to refuse. Google reads your pages as Googlebot and then consults the Google-Extended rule to decide whether that content may feed Gemini and AI Overviews. Any tool that reports an HTTP status for Google-Extended is reporting a request it invented.
Privacy
The plugin only requests your own site. It sends nothing to any third party, requires no account, no API key and no signup, and stores nothing beyond a one hour cache of your last result.
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