Synced Pattern Popups vs VigIA – AI Visibility, Analytics & Control

Synced Pattern Popups helps you create popups using the WordPress editor you already know, not yet another builder. Create a Pattern yourself or from the Pattern Library, paste the trigger code as a link anywhere on your site, and your Pattern is now opened via a beautiful and accessible modal popup. Manually triggered by your website viewers because they are interested in your content, not because you’re punishing them for scrolling too far, or exiting your tab. Most popup plugins are built on a desperate lie: if you interrupt your visitor enough times, they’ll eventually give in. They sell “triggers” like exit intent and scroll depth as features, but in reality, these are just ways to guess what a user wants. When you guess wrong, you don’t get a lead; you get a “close” click and a bruised brand reputation. Synced Pattern Popups was built for the site owner who trusts their content and respects their visitors’ time. Built for the Modern WordPress Stack Don’t step out of your workflow into a bespoke, clunky UI. Synced Pattern Popups uses 100% Native Architecture. If it’s a block, it works—forms, videos, or third-party embeds. 🧱 100% Native Architecture: Your popups are Synced Patterns. No parallel builders, no proprietary styling engines, no bloat. 🔌 Zero Integration Friction: If it’s a block, it works. Forms, videos, or third-party embeds—if you can drop it on a page, you can put it in a popup. ♿ Radical Accessibility: Inclusion isn’t an afterthought. Our modals feature rock-solid focus trapping, full keyboard support, and screen-reader optimization out of the box. You don’t have to “fix” your popups for compliance; they’re born ready. 🔄 Global Updates, Zero Effort: Edit your Synced Pattern once, and every instance—across your pages and inside your popups—updates instantly. 🖼️ Media-First Popups: Full support for the Core Gallery block. Stop settling for static images; give your visitors the high-fidelity experience they asked for. ⌘ Built into your Workflow: With Command Palette integration, managing your popups is as fast as typing a shortcut. Key Benefits Global Updates, Zero Effort: Edit a Synced Pattern once, and every instance across your site updates instantly. Performance Optimized: Intelligent caching and AJAX loading ensure your initial page load stays lightning-fast. Developer Friendly: Clean code, WordPress hooks, and Abilities API support for programmatic workflows. AI-Powered TLDR: Generate instant summaries of page content (requires AI Experiments plugin). Major Features ↗️Modal popups powered by Synced Patterns Create your popup content using the native Block Editor – layouts, images, galleries, buttons, and third-party blocks all work. Simple trigger system (class or href) Highlight a word or click into a button then open the hyperlink option. Paste in your Trigger code, for example: #spp-trigger-{id} and now that link will open your modal on click, just like that! You can also set a custom class name on a block: Custom Class name: spp-trigger-{id} (like on a column or section block) Link: href="#spp-trigger-{id}" (handy in the Block Editor) Width overrides By default all modals open at 600px. You can override that in your general settings at “Appearance → Synced Pattern” then the “Defaults” tab. Or you can also set it on a per modal basis within the trigger code by appending the width in pixels to the end of the trigger code: spp-trigger-{id}-{width}. 🖼️Core Gallery Block Support The Core Gallery block has a “lightbox” feature. But that feature does not support image navigation within the lightbox or captions or width management. Synced Pattern Popups lets you do all of that with your Core Gallery blocks. Simply choose the Gallery block (not the individual images within the Gallery block), and click on the link icon (“🔗”). There you’ll see several options, including the Core lightbox feature, and now also “Open in Synced Pattern Popups”. 🤖AI-powered TLDR (optional) Generate AI summaries of the current page content on demand by adding a spp-trigger-tldr trigger. This feature requires the AI Experiments plugin and configured credentials (you’ll see guided setup in the TLDR tab). 💻Handy for Developer Features Synced Pattern Popups is made to be user friendly, but it’s also full of useful utilities for developers. On-demand loading (AJAX) Popup content loads only when needed, which keeps initial page loads fast. Smart caching with automatic invalidation Rendered popup output is cached using WordPress transients for performance, and automatically cleared when synced patterns or default settings change. You can also clear a single pattern’s cache from the admin UI. Full block styling support (core + third‑party) The plugin loads the styles required to render the synced pattern correctly inside the modal – including WordPress core block styles and supported third-party block styles. Accessibility-first modal behavior Includes keyboard navigation (Escape to close, Tab stays within the popup), focus management, and screen-reader friendly UI. Abilities API integration (WordPress 6.9+) On WordPress 6.9+, the plugin registers Abilities to enable programmatic use cases (e.g., rendering popup content via wp_execute_ability() in custom workflows). If the Abilities API isn’t available, the plugin simply skips this integration. How It Works Create a Synced Pattern in WordPress (Appearance → Synced Patterns) Add a trigger as a link or class to any block or element: class="spp-trigger-{ID}" or href="#spp-trigger-{ID}" When clicked, the popup opens with your pattern content Content loads via AJAX for optimal performance What are Synced Patterns? Synced Patterns (stored as wp_block posts) are reusable block layouts you can create and manage once, then reuse across your site. When you edit a synced pattern, any place it’s used is updated automatically. This plugin surfaces them with a dedicated admin screen at Appearance → Synced Patterns, making it easy to: – See each pattern’s ID at a glance – Copy the trigger code – Edit or delete the pattern – Clear the cached popup output when needed Support For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit the plugin’s support page or GitHub repository.

VigIA (Spanish for “lookout” or “watchman”, incorporating “IA” – Spanish for “AI”) is a complete AI visibility toolkit for WordPress. Monitor 60+ AI crawlers, control access to your content, and optimize how AI systems discover and understand your site. What does VigIA do? Scores your AI visibility with a 100-point analyzer covering 20 checks across 5 categories Tracks AI crawlers visiting your site (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and 60+ others) Provides detailed analytics with advanced filters, server-side pagination, and exportable reports with metadata banner Blocks unwanted crawlers via PHP (403 response) Manages robots.txt rules for AI crawlers with compliance monitoring Sends email alerts about crawler activity (daily, weekly, or monthly) Generates llms.txt files to help AI systems understand your site Serves markdown endpoints for posts, pages, taxonomy archives (categories, tags, WooCommerce product categories, custom taxonomies) and WooCommerce products with schema-like data Generates JSON-LD structured data with Site Identity and AI Discovery signals Exposes abilities for AI agents and automation tools (WordPress 6.9+) Key Features AI Visibility Analyzer * 100-point scoring system with letter grades (A+ to F) * 20 individual checks across 5 categories * Access & AI Discovery (37 pts): robots.txt, AI bot directives, Content Signals, llms.txt, sitemap, RSS feed * Structured Data & Semantic Context (25 pts): JSON-LD schemas, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, meta description, canonical URL * Content Structure & Readability (20 pts): heading hierarchy, semantic HTML5, image alt text, content/HTML ratio * AI Interaction & Distribution (8 pts): markdown delivery, AI share buttons * Access Performance (10 pts): TTFB measurement * Smart recommendations with direct links to VigIA features and plugin suggestions * Analyze any page on your site with URL autocomplete selector * Results cached for 24 hours with manual re-analyze option Analytics Dashboard * Total visits, unique crawlers, and pages crawled statistics * Timeline chart with daily breakdown * Category distribution (AI Training, AI Search, AI Assistant, Data Scraper) * Top crawlers and most crawled pages tables with paginated navigation * Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries integration: see share button clicks per page * Recent activity log with content type and HTTP status columns (color coded by status family) * Advanced filters: multi-select crawler picker, content type, HTTP status code, and configurable date range * Server-side pagination with four-button pager (first, previous, next, last) — operates over the full database, not just the latest 500 rows * Period comparison functionality * CSV export with a metadata banner (site name, site URL, export type, date range, export timestamp, applied filters) * “Export filtered CSV” button that downloads exactly what the active filters return, with vigia-filtered-YYYY-MM-DD.csv filename * Content type detection distinguishes Home, Post, Page, Product, custom CPTs, Category archive, Tag archive, Date/Author archive, Feed, Sitemap, REST API, File, Admin / login attempts (/wp-admin, /wp-login.php), WordPress system (admin-ajax, xmlrpc, wp-cron, wp-comments-post), 404 Not found, and Other Crawler Blocking * Block crawlers via PHP with 403 Forbidden response * Quick block dropdown in analytics dashboard * Manage blocks from Extras page * Works on any server (Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed, etc.) Robots.txt Management * Add Disallow rules for AI crawlers * Visual preview of your robots.txt * Compliance monitoring: see which crawlers ignore your rules * One-click blocking for non-compliant crawlers * Works with both physical and virtual robots.txt Email Alerts * Daily, weekly, or monthly reports * Three detail levels: Minimal, Normal, Complete * Non-compliant crawler warnings * Activity comparison with previous period Markdown for Agents * Serve posts, pages and any public post type as optimized markdown for AI agents * Serve taxonomy archive pages (categories, tags, WooCommerce product categories, custom taxonomies) as markdown — disabled by default, opt in per taxonomy * Dedicated .md URL endpoints (e.g., /your-post.md, /category/news.md, /product-category/electronics.md) * Accept: text/markdown content negotiation on posts and taxonomy archive pages * Discoverability via Link HTTP headers and HTML tags * YAML frontmatter for posts: title, date, modified, author, image, categories, tags, post type, lang * YAML frontmatter for taxonomy terms: title, description, url, type, taxonomy, parent, count, image (term meta), lang * WooCommerce product frontmatter adds schema-like fields: sku, product_type, price, regular_price, sale_price, currency, availability, stock_quantity, rating, rating_count, review_count * Taxonomy term body includes the term description (rendered through the_content), the list of direct child terms in hierarchical taxonomies, and an excerpt of the latest posts/products assigned to the term * Product listings inside product_cat archives include an inline summary with formatted price, “was X” on sale items, star rating and out-of-stock flag * Respects blocking rules (blocked crawlers get 403) and LLMs.txt exclusion filters * Per-term noindex detection from Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO and SEOPress * Analytics integration: tracks markdown requests per crawler * X-Markdown-Tokens response header * Filters: vigia_markdown_post_eligible, vigia_markdown_term_eligible, vigia_markdown_term_posts_limit * Follows the Cloudflare Markdown for Agents standard LLMs.txt Generator * Select content by post type with one click * Filter by taxonomies (categories, tags, custom) * Manual include/exclude with AJAX search * Exclude by URL patterns (wildcards supported) * SEO plugin integration (auto-exclude noindex content) * Auto-regeneration (daily, weekly, monthly) * Robots.txt integration (add llms.txt and llms-full.txt references) * Generate llms.txt and llms-full.txt files * Full content or excerpt mode * Compatible with Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress, The SEO Framework, and Native SEO NoIndexer JSON-LD Structured Data * Generate WebSite and Organization/Person schema for site identity * AI Discovery: ReadAction pointers to llms.txt, llms-full.txt, and Markdown for Agents endpoints * Social profiles and sameAs links for brand identity across the web * SearchAction for Google sitelinks search box * Media library integration for logo selection * SEO plugin conflict detection (Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SEOPress, The SEO Framework) * Choose output page (front page or any published page) * Live JSON-LD preview with real-time updates * Smart integration with LLMs.txt and Markdown for Agents features Supported AI Crawlers VigIA monitors 60+ AI crawlers including: OpenAI: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, OAI-AdsBot, ChatGPT-User Anthropic: ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, Claude-Code Google: Google-Extended, GoogleOther, Gemini-Deep-Research, Google-NotebookLM Perplexity: PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User Meta: Meta-ExternalAgent, FacebookBot, Meta-WebIndexer Amazon: Amazonbot, Amzn-SearchBot, bedrockbot Mistral: MistralAI-User, MistralAI-Index Microsoft: BingBot ByteDance: Bytespider Apple: Applebot-Extended And many more… Privacy Focused VigIA stores visitor data locally in your WordPress database. No data is sent to external servers. Abilities API VigIA is one of the first WordPress plugins to implement the Abilities API introduced in WordPress 6.9. This API allows AI agents, automation tools, and external systems to discover and interact with VigIA’s functionality in a standardized, secure way. What are Abilities? Abilities are self-contained units of functionality that VigIA exposes through WordPress’s central registry. Each ability has defined inputs, outputs, and permissions, making it easy for automation tools to understand and use them. Available Abilities VigIA registers the following abilities: Analytics vigia/get-crawler-stats – Get statistics about AI crawler visits (total visits, unique crawlers, pages crawled) vigia/get-top-crawlers – Get a ranked list of most active AI crawlers vigia/get-top-pages – Get the most crawled pages on your site Blocking vigia/get-blocked-items – List all blocked crawlers and IP addresses vigia/block-crawler – Block a crawler by User-Agent pattern vigia/unblock-crawler – Remove an existing block Robots.txt vigia/get-robots-rules – Get current AI crawler rules in robots.txt vigia/add-robots-disallow – Add a Disallow directive for a crawler vigia/remove-robots-rule – Remove a robots.txt rule Use Cases Automated monitoring: AI agents can query crawler statistics and alert you to anomalies Reactive blocking: Automation tools can block crawlers that repeatedly ignore robots.txt External dashboards: Aggregate data from multiple WordPress sites with VigIA installed WP-CLI integration: Future command-line access through the Abilities API n8n / Make workflows: Build custom automation flows using VigIA’s abilities Requirements The Abilities API ships with WordPress 6.9 and later. On older WordPress versions, VigIA works normally but abilities and MCP are not available. MCP Server (Model Context Protocol) VigIA exposes its 9 abilities as native MCP tools to any MCP-compatible client (Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, Antigravity, Continue, Cline, Zed and similar) using the official WordPress MCP Adapter. The adapter ships bundled with the plugin, so the MCP endpoint is active right after installation — no Composer step or terminal access required. Requirements WordPress 6.9 or later (provides the Abilities API) Quick connect (recommended) Open VigIA > Extras > MCP and click “Generate password and connection commands”. The plugin creates a dedicated Application Password named VigIA MCP and renders ready-to-paste commands for Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop and a generic block (URL + Authorization header) for any other MCP client. The plain password is shown only once. If you lose it, revoke the entry from the same panel and generate a new one. Endpoint https://your-site.example/wp-json/vigia/v1/mcp The endpoint uses HTTP Basic auth with the WordPress Application Password. The user must have the manage_options capability. Connecting Claude Code Quick Connect builds the full command for you. The shape is: claude mcp add --transport http vigia https://your-site.example/wp-json/vigia/v1/mcp --header "Authorization: Basic BASE64_OF_USER_AND_APP_PASSWORD" Claude Code merges the new entry into its config file automatically — no risk of breaking other servers. Connecting Cursor Save the JSON block from Quick Connect as ~/.cursor/mcp.json. You can also reach this file from inside Cursor at Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP. If the file already exists with other content, see the FAQ. Claude Desktop and other clients Claude Desktop does not speak HTTP MCP, so it needs a small bridge and a config file of its own. Any other client (Codex CLI, Continue, Cline, Antigravity, Zed, or your own) takes the two raw values Quick Connect exposes: the server URL and the Authorization header. Both cases are covered in the FAQ, together with how to merge VigIA into a config file that already exists without losing what is in it. Read-only mode If you only want your AI to consult VigIA (not change anything), enable “Read-only mode” in the MCP tab. While on, write actions (block, unblock, robots changes) return a permission denied error. Read actions (statistics, top crawlers, blocked items, robots rules) keep working. The toggle stores a vigia_mcp_read_only option that hooks into the vigia_can_write_via_abilities filter. Developers can still force read-only from a mu-plugin: add_filter( 'vigia_can_write_via_abilities', '__return_false' ); The mu-plugin filter at the default priority takes precedence over the toggle. Who can reach the endpoint The endpoint requires the capability to manage options, the same one every tool behind it already asked for. The vigia_mcp_transport_capability filter can lower that bar; each tool keeps its own permission check. After connecting Restart your MCP client after adding the server so it picks up the new tools. Then try a few prompts to confirm everything is wired up: “Show me VigIA crawler stats for the last 7 days.” “List the top 5 most crawled pages on this site.” “Add a robots.txt Disallow rule for TestBot and then list the current AI crawler rules.” The third example exercises a read + write + read round-trip, which is the most complete sanity check. Support Need private support or custom development? Do you need one-on-one help, priority troubleshooting, or a custom feature, integration, or tweak built specifically for your site? I offer private support and custom development. Just contact me and tell me what you need. Need help or have suggestions? 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