ParseLess for WordPress

ParseLess serves your WordPress content as clean Markdown to AI crawlers (via User-Agent detection) and on manual ?format=md requests. Same URL, same content, none of the theme chrome, navigation, widgets, or page-builder scaffolding that AI bots and CLI tools don’t need.

It also exposes /llms.txt for the emerging AI-indexing standard, so models know where to find your content.

Agents can request Markdown the standard way — an Accept: text/markdown header, or a .md address — and every page advertises its Markdown version so they can discover it without being told. You can also declare in robots.txt how AI systems may use your content: search, generated answers, and model training, each independently, with optional RSL licence terms.

Who is this for? 1. Developers using Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, or any CLI that feeds your own site content into an LLM.

If you’ve ever piped a blog post into Claude or ChatGPT for analysis, rewriting, or summarization, you’ve watched it burn through tokens parsing nav menus, footer markup, and CSS classes that have nothing to do with your content. A typical WordPress page measured live: ~19,800 tokens of HTML for ~975 tokens of actual content — a 20x reduction just by stripping the theme. Heavy page-builder sites (Elementor, Divi) routinely hit 100x or more.

That’s the difference between fitting a handful of pages in a context window and fitting dozens.

Just append ?format=md to any post URL and pipe it straight into your tool of choice:

curl https://yoursite.com/my-post/?format=md | claude "summarize this"

2. Site owners getting “high resource usage” warnings from their host because AI bots are hammering the site.

GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and a dozen others crawl WordPress sites constantly. Each request renders your full theme, runs widget queries, loads page-builder assets, and ships hundreds of KB of HTML per page — most of which the bot discards before extracting the actual text.