VigIA – AI Visibility, Analytics & Control vs WhoKnew Views – View Counter & Social Proof for WooCommerce

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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WhoKnew Views is the most complete WooCommerce view counter and social proof plugin available — combining real-time product analytics, fully customizable counter displays, and Prophet AI demand forecasting in a single, lightweight solution. Whether you’re running a small WooCommerce store or a high-volume catalog, a well-placed view counter delivers instant social proof that influences buying decisions. Shoppers who see that hundreds of other visitors have viewed a product are more likely to trust it, engage with it, and convert. WhoKnew Views gives you that social proof out of the box — no coding, no configuration headaches, no performance tradeoffs. What Is a WooCommerce View Counter? A view counter tracks how many times each product page has been visited and displays that number directly on your store. Unlike vague engagement metrics buried in Google Analytics, a WooCommerce view counter puts social proof front and center — right where your customers are making purchase decisions. WhoKnew Views goes further than a basic view counter. It layers in a full analytics dashboard, smart bot filtering, deep visual customization, and — in the Pro version — Prophet AI forecasting that predicts which products are about to go viral up to 90 days before it happens. Why Social Proof Works — and Why a View Counter Delivers It Social proof is one of the most studied conversion principles in ecommerce. When shoppers see that a product has been viewed thousands of times, it signals popularity, trustworthiness, and demand. A view counter is one of the simplest, most effective forms of social proof you can add to a WooCommerce store because it requires no reviews, no ratings, and no user-generated content — just real traffic data you already have. WhoKnew Views transforms that raw view data into a polished, branded social proof display that matches your store’s aesthetic perfectly. Choose from 100+ professional CSS presets, customize every visual detail, and preview changes live before publishing — all without touching a single line of code. Free Features — Everything You Need to Start Accurate WooCommerce View Counter Track real product page views with async JavaScript that never slows your store. Each view is logged, deduplicated, and aggregated daily so your analytics stay clean and your database stays lean. The view counter updates in real time and displays on product pages automatically once enabled. Social Proof Display Turn raw view counts into compelling social proof with fully customizable display text, icons, animations, and positioning. Show messages like “🔥 1,243 people have viewed this product” or keep it minimal — the choice is yours. The social proof display is mobile-responsive and tested across all major WooCommerce themes. Full Visual Customization WhoKnew Views gives you more styling control than any other WooCommerce view counter on the market: – Colors — background, text, border, icon, shadow – Typography — font size, weight, family, line height – Layout — padding, margin, border radius, width – Animations — fade, slide, pulse, bounce, and more – Shadows and borders — full box-shadow and border control – 100+ professional CSS presets — Luxury, Hover Effects, 3D, Elite, and a continuously growing collection Live Preview System Every styling change is reflected instantly in a live preview panel before you publish. Test your view counter across desktop and mobile viewports without leaving the settings screen. 5 Icon Libraries Choose from over 500 icons across five professional libraries: – Font Awesome (v6.7.2) — the web’s most popular icon set – Ionicons (v4.6.3) — clean, modern icons from the Ionic team – Elegant Icons — premium icons from Elegant Themes – Dripicons v2 — a refined stroke-based icon collection – Dashicons — WordPress native icons, always available Bot Filtering + IP Whitelist Accurate analytics require clean data. WhoKnew Views filters known bots and crawlers automatically and lets you whitelist your own IP address so your visits never inflate your view counts. The bot filter catalog is regularly updated to keep your social proof numbers trustworthy. Product Leaderboard with Growth Badges See which products are trending across your entire WooCommerce catalog with a built-in leaderboard. Growth badges highlight products with accelerating view velocity — a simple but powerful analytics signal that tells you where buyer interest is building before your sales data does. 5-Year Data Retention View analytics data is stored locally in your WordPress database and retained for up to five years. No external servers, no third-party analytics platforms, no data sharing — just clean, private, long-term view counter history that belongs entirely to you. Mobile-Responsive Display The view counter and social proof display are fully responsive and tested across phones, tablets, and desktops. Position controls let you place the counter above the title, below the price, above the add-to-cart button, or in a custom location — all without code. Pro Features — Advanced Analytics and Prophet AI Prophet AI Forecasting The Pro version of WhoKnew Views includes AI-powered demand forecasting built on Prophet — the open-source time series forecasting library developed by Meta’s Core Data Science team and trusted by data scientists worldwide. Prophet analyzes your WooCommerce view counter history and identifies seasonal patterns, trend inflections, and demand acceleration signals that are invisible to the naked eye. The result: accurate product-level forecasts that tell you which items are about to spike in traffic and sales — up to 90 days before it happens. This isn’t generic analytics. Prophet was specifically designed for business time series data with strong seasonal effects and missing data tolerance — exactly the kind of messy, real-world view counter data that WooCommerce stores produce. WhoKnew Views applies Prophet at the individual product level so you get a forecast for every SKU in your catalog, not just store-wide trends. What Prophet AI forecasting gives you: – Predict which products will go viral up to 90 days early – Identify seasonal demand peaks before your competitors do – Spot declining products before they drag down your analytics – Make smarter inventory, advertising, and merchandising decisions based on real view counter data – Visualize forecast confidence intervals so you understand prediction certainty at a glance No data science background required. WhoKnew Views handles all Prophet model configuration, training, and rendering automatically. You see a clean forecast chart — the AI does the rest. Smart View Padding (15 Presets) New products suffer from the “cold start” problem — a view counter showing “3 views” actually hurts social proof more than having no counter at all. Smart view padding solves this by applying a configurable baseline to your view counter display so new products launch with credible social proof from day one. Choose from 15 padding presets ranging from subtle to aggressive, or set a custom value per product. Padding is applied only to the display number — your underlying analytics data is always accurate and unaffected. Email Alerts for View Spikes Get notified the moment a product starts trending. WhoKnew Views Pro monitors your view counter data in real time and sends automated email alerts when a product crosses configurable view velocity thresholds. Catch viral moments early so you can respond with targeted promotions, inventory top-ups, or social media amplification before the spike peaks. Analytics Export (CSV + Images) Export your complete view counter analytics history as CSV files for use in Excel, Google Sheets, or any business intelligence tool. Screenshot exports let you share visual analytics reports with your team or clients without granting WordPress access. All exports include product-level view counter data, trend indicators, and Prophet AI forecast data where applicable. Per-Product Counter Control Show or hide the view counter on any individual product with a single checkbox in the product edit screen. Useful for hiding counters on low-traffic new arrivals, showing social proof only on bestsellers, excluding clearance items from view counter display, or applying different counter strategies across product categories. Priority Support Pro license holders receive priority email support with faster response times and direct access to the WhoKnew development team. WhoKnew Views vs. Other WooCommerce View Counter Plugins Most WooCommerce view counter plugins do one thing: count views and show a number. WhoKnew Views is the only view counter plugin that combines: Real-time social proof display with full visual customization Clean analytics with bot filtering and IP whitelisting Prophet AI forecasting for predictive demand intelligence Smart padding to solve the cold start social proof problem Email alerts for view spike detection 5-year analytics retention with local-only data storage If you want a simple view counter, WhoKnew Views delivers that in minutes. If you want a complete social proof and analytics platform with Prophet AI built in, WhoKnew Views Pro is the only WooCommerce plugin that offers it. Performance and Privacy WhoKnew Views is engineered for production WooCommerce stores: Async view tracking — JavaScript tracking never blocks page load Daily aggregation — raw view data is rolled up nightly to keep your analytics tables compact 90-day rolling window — timestamp data prunes automatically to prevent database bloat No external analytics — all view counter data stays in your local WordPress database Cache compatible — works with WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, SiteGround Speed Optimizer, and all major caching plugins GDPR-conscious design — no personal data transmitted to external servers for view tracking No coding required. Works with any WooCommerce theme. Free forever with optional Pro upgrade. Upgrade to Pro → | Download Free Third-Party Libraries WhoKnew Views includes several third-party libraries to enhance functionality and provide a better user experience. All minified files below link to their publicly accessible source code: Color Picker: – Coloris (v0.17.1) – Author: Momo Bassit – Source: https://github.com/mdbassit/Coloris/tree/v0.17.1 – Minified Files: coloris.min.js (14KB), coloris.min.css (8KB) – License: MIT License – License URI: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT – Location: /assets/coloris/ Icon Libraries: – Font Awesome Free (v6.7.2) – Author: Fonticons, Inc. – Source: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/releases/tag/6.7.2 – Minified Files: all.min.css – License: SIL OFL 1.1 (fonts), CC BY 4.0 (icons), MIT (code) – License URI: https://fontawesome.com/license/free – Location: /assets/icons/font-awesome/ Ionicons (v4.6.3) Author: Ionic Framework Source: https://github.com/ionic-team/ionicons/releases/tag/v4.6.3 Minified Files: ionicons.min.css License: MIT License License URI: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT Location: /assets/icons/ionicons/ Elegant Icons Author: Elegant Themes Source: https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/elegant-icon-font License: MIT License / GPLv2 (dual licensed) License URI: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT Location: /assets/icons/elegant-icons/ Dripicons v2 Author: Amit Jakhu Source: https://github.com/amitjakhu/dripicons License: CC BY-SA 4.0 License URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Location: /assets/icons/dripicons/ All included libraries are used under their respective open-source licenses, which are compatible with this plugin’s GPLv3+ licensing. External Services WhoKnew Views Free connects to WhoKnew.io services for the following optional features: Audio Walkthrough Files (Setup Wizard) – Purpose: Downloads narrated onboarding guides for first-time setup – Service URL: https://whoknew.io/wp-content/uploads/whoknew-views/assets/audio/ – When Used: Automatically downloaded when an administrator first accesses the Plugin (if not already present) – Data Sent: None (simple file download request) – Data Received: Audio files (OPUS format, ~2.3 MB total) + version manifest – Data Stored: Audio files are cached locally in your WordPress uploads directory (wp-content/uploads/whoknew-views/audio/) for offline use – Privacy Policy: https://whoknew.io/privacy-policy/ – Terms of Service: https://whoknew.io/terms-of-service/ Important Privacy Notes: – No personal data, user information, or site analytics are collected or transmitted during audio file downloads – Audio files are used solely for providing narrated guidance during plugin setup – Files are downloaded once and cached locally; no recurring connections are made – All product view tracking data remains in your local WordPress database – Pro version includes audio files in the plugin package (no external download required)