Botkibble for WordPress

AI agents, LLMs, and crawlers have to wade through navigation bars, sidebars, ads, and comment forms to reach the content they want, and every element costs tokens. Cloudflare measured an 80% reduction in token usage when converting a blog post from HTML to Markdown (16,180 tokens down to 3,150).

Botkibble adds a Markdown endpoint to every published post and page.

Cloudflare offers Markdown for Agents at the CDN edge on Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans. Botkibble does the same thing (for free) at the origin, so it works on any host.

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Three ways to request Markdown:

.md suffix: append .md to any post or page URL (e.g. example.com/my-post.md)

Query parameter: add ?format=markdown to any post or page URL

Content negotiation: send Accept: text/markdown in the request header

What’s in every response:

Structured metadata header with title, date, categories, tags, word count, character count, and estimated token count (in YAML frontmatter format, readable by any AI agent)

Clean Markdown converted from fully-rendered post HTML (shortcodes run, filters applied)

Content-Type: text/markdown and Vary: Accept response headers

Content-Signal header for AI signal declaration — defaults to ai-train=no, search=yes, ai-input=yes — see contentsignals.org

X-Markdown-Tokens header with estimated token count