Markdown for Agents and Statistics for WordPress Plugin Directory

Markdown for Agents and Statistics converts your WordPress content to Markdown and serves it

to AI agents and language model tools that request it via HTTP content negotiation

(Accept: text/markdown).

The Chancery Lane Project is a charity that helps organisations reduce emissions using the power of legal documents and processes. We’ve published this plugin as we believe that making content more legible for AI Agents makes a meaningful difference to their energy usage – not only by reducing the amount of tokens required (by up to 90% over HTML) to consume the content, but also minimising the server resources required to render, process and display pages at source.

How it works:

Posts and taxonomy archive pages are converted to Markdown and saved as static

files on disk inside wp-content/uploads/.

When a visitor (or AI agent) requests a page with Accept: text/markdown in

the HTTP headers, WordPress serves the pre-generated .md file directly —

no page render required.

A <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"> tag is added to each page’s

so agents can discover Markdown versions automatically.

Features:

Content negotiation (Accept: text/markdown, ?output_format=md, or known AI User-Agents)

Taxonomy archive support — category, tag, and custom taxonomy term pages served as Markdown post listings

Automatic Markdown generation on post save; taxonomy archives auto-update when any post in the term changes

Background bulk generation — runs as a WP-Cron job with live progress, so it survives closing the tab and never times out a page request

Per-post-type field configuration — choose which meta/ACF fields go in frontmatter or body

ACF support with dot notation for nested group fields (e.g. group.subfield)

Content fields option — use ACF fields as the body content instead of post_content

Manifest generation with content hashes and change tracking per post type

Incremental export — only re-export changed documents (--incremental)

Delta file (changes.json) for RAG system sync

Access statistics — logs AI agent requests with a dedicated stats admin page

Access grouping by class of agent

Optional frontmatter fields — hierarchy (parent/ancestors/children IDs), author display name, root-relative featured image paths

Topics section — appends a ## Topics section with linked taxonomy terms to the Markdown body

Export preview — preview generated Markdown inline in the post editor without writing to disk

OKF directory indexes — index.md listings at the export root and in every post-type and taxonomy directory (Open Knowledge Format), kept current automatically

OKF-compliant frontmatter and links — timestamp and flat cross-taxonomy tags frontmatter keys, and internal links rewritten to point at the Markdown file versions, always on

Downloadable OKF bundle — optional .zip archive of the export tree with relative internal links, manifest.json, and an ARD discovery catalog panel, kept fresh via bulk-generation rebuilds and a debounced WP-Cron schedule

ARD catalog generation — ai-catalog.json document for manual deployment to /.well-known/, discoverable by AI agent directories, shown automatically whenever the bundle toggle is on

WP-CLI commands: generate, generate-taxonomies, generate-indexes, prune-stats, status, delete, bundle

Fully unit-tested