Major: adds the llms.txt \/ llms-full.txt generator, markdown alternates for every page, \/.well-known\/agent-card.json, HTTP Link header advertising llms.txt, and a plain-English score-breakdown modal on the Dashboard KPIs. All features can be toggled from Settings \u2192 Agent readiness. No database schema changes.<\/p>","1.5.1":"
Two bugfixes to the onboarding flow. Non-breaking.<\/p>","1.5.0":"
UX polish release \u2014 educational welcome wizard, dashboard tour, glossary tooltips, and a Getting Started checklist. Non-breaking.<\/p>","1.4.0":"
Adds Chrome Lighthouse Agentic Browsing alignment \u2014 the industry-standard taxonomy for AI-agent readiness. Non-breaking. Existing scans get the new checks on their next run.<\/p>","1.3.0":"
Extractable-passage checker (post-FAQ-removal). Also bundles: bot access control taxonomy (1.2.1) and site-wide baseline audit (1.2.2). No breaking changes \u2014 no data migration needed.<\/p>","1.2.0":"
New correlation view surfacing crawl-to-citation efficiency per URL. Non-breaking feature release.<\/p>","1.1.5":"
Adds convenience links (Settings, OpenAI API key, View Details, Support) to the plugin row on the Plugins list.<\/p>","1.1.4":"
Plugin Check compliance fix. Rebuild the submission zip and re-upload.<\/p>","1.1.3":"
Reviewer-feedback fix. Rebuild the submission zip with build-zip.sh.<\/p>","1.1.2":"
WordPress.org reviewer fixes. Rebuild the submission zip with build-zip.sh to ensure marketing assets are excluded.<\/p>","1.1.1":"
Ready for WordPress.org Plugin Check. Hard-refresh any admin page to pick up updated assets.<\/p>","1.1.0":"
Schema auto-generator. Visit Settings \u2192 Schema markup to configure your Organization details (logo, social profiles).<\/p>","1.0.2":"
Cosmetic fix for the Settings page. Hard-refresh the admin to pick up the new CSS.<\/p>","1.0.1":"
Bulk-scan UX fix. Hard-refresh the admin to pick up the updated JS.<\/p>","1.0.0":"
First public release of Lens as an AI Visibility Monitor. 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Lens is the first WordPress plugin to score your site on Google Chrome Lighthouse\u2019s new Agentic Browsing<\/em> readiness category<\/strong> \u2014 the taxonomy Chrome uses to measure how ready your site is for AI agents to read and act on. Plus per-page AI bot analytics, crawl-to-citation correlation, and citation tracking against ChatGPT and Perplexity. All with your own OpenAI key. Zero data leaves your database. No SaaS subscription. Free forever.<\/p>\n\n Unlike traditional SEO plugins, Lens does not try to replace Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO or SEOPress. It runs alongside whichever SEO plugin you already use and adds the AI visibility layer none of them cover today.<\/p>\n\n Every other AI-SEO plugin on the market proxies your content through a paid SaaS. Lens is the only one that:<\/p>\n\n 1. AI Crawler Analytics (free, no API key required)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Detects and logs visits from 18+ recognised AI bot families. Dashboard shows per-bot \/ per-day \/ per-page breakdowns, blind-spot pages, weekly trend, first-visit alerts.<\/p>\n\n 2. Crawl \u2192 Citation efficiency (v1.2.0)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n The diagnostic no other WordPress plugin offers. For every crawled URL, Lens shows how many times the answer engines cited it back. Zero-efficiency rows are the actionable priority list.<\/p>\n\n 3. Bot Access Control with training \/ retrieval \/ assistant taxonomy (v1.2.1)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Three category cards on the Settings page let you block bots by their actual purpose. Block training crawlers to keep content out of model training data \u2014 WITHOUT blocking the retrieval crawlers that create citations. Advanced per-bot override table lets you force allow \/ force block any single bot.<\/p>\n\n 4. Chrome Lighthouse Agentic Browsing readiness (v1.4.0)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n The alignment claim no other WordPress plugin makes. Every AEO scan now runs the same-shape checks Google Chrome ships in its (experimental) Agentic Browsing Lighthouse category:<\/p>\n\n Presented as a fractional pass ratio (X of Y checks passed), the same format Chrome uses. A sitewide \"Agentic readiness\" KPI appears on the Dashboard next to Citation rate.<\/p>\n\n 5. Per-page AEO scoring (bring your own AI key)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Local checks always run for free: title, meta, headings, FAQ\/HowTo\/Article schema, image alt coverage, llms.txt entry, internal links, answer-shaped intro, and extractable-passage detection<\/strong> \u2014 the primary AEO signal after Google removed FAQ rich results in May 2026. AI-enriched scoring uses your OpenAI key to add a 0\u2013100 citability score with three ranked fixes.<\/p>\n\n 6. Citation tracking (bring your own AI key, opt-in)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Enter up to 10 seed queries. On a schedule you choose, Lens asks OpenAI whether your domain appears in the response. Trend charts of citation rate over time, per query and per provider.<\/p>\n\n 7. Site-wide baseline audit (v1.2.2)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n One-click HTML report aggregating every scan, every crawler hit, and every citation check on the site. Score distribution, worst-20 and best-20 pages, blind spots, and prioritised action list. Ideal for agency client onboarding.<\/p>\n\n Lens emits JSON-LD on every post and page: WebSite, Organization, WebPage, BreadcrumbList, Article (or BlogPosting), plus auto-detected FAQPage, HowTo, ImageObject, VideoObject and SpeakableSpecification. Conflict-detects Yoast \/ Rank Math \/ AIOSEO \/ SEOPress \/ The SEO Framework \u2014 defaults OFF if any are active so you never get duplicate JSON-LD.<\/p>\n\n Lens connects to external services in the following ways. All third-party calls are optional and require you to explicitly provide an API key.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n OpenAI API<\/strong> (https:\/\/api.openai.com)<\/p>\n\n Lens does not transmit any data to any other external service. Crawler detection happens entirely inside your WordPress install \u2014 no external lookup is performed on visiting bots.<\/p>\n\n ChatGPT and OpenAI are trademarks of OpenAI. Perplexity is a trademark of Perplexity AI, Inc. Claude and Anthropic are trademarks of Anthropic PBC. Gemini is a trademark of Google LLC. Microsoft Copilot and Bing are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Meta AI and LLaMA are trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. Apple Intelligence is a trademark of Apple Inc.<\/p>\n\n Lens is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of the above companies. All product names, logos, brands and trademarks mentioned in Lens are the property of their respective owners.<\/p>\n\n\n No. Lens runs alongside Yoast SEO, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress. It does not write meta titles, meta descriptions, canonicals or sitemaps. It only adds the AI visibility layer those plugins do not currently cover.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. The crawler analytics dashboard, local AEO checks, settings, reporting, and the editor sidebar are free with no account required. AI-enriched features (per-page AI scoring and citation tracking) use your own OpenAI API key \u2014 you pay OpenAI directly. There is no Lens subscription.<\/p><\/dd>\n Only if you want the AI-enriched scoring and citation tracking. The crawler analytics dashboard works without one.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. Crawler detection runs on a single regex match against the User-Agent header and writes one row per matched request. Frontend overhead is microseconds. Dashboard queries are paginated and indexed.<\/p><\/dd>\n A typical per-page AEO scan uses around 500\u20131,500 tokens (\u2248 US $0.001\u20130.005 on gpt-4o-mini as of May 2026). A citation check uses around 300\u2013800 tokens per query per run. Run the maths against your own usage at https:\/\/openai.com\/pricing.<\/p><\/dd>\n By default, Lens preserves your crawler logs, scans, and settings on uninstall so a reinstall does not lose history. To wipe everything, enable Lens \u2192 Settings \u2192 Data & Privacy \u2192 \"Remove all data on uninstall\"<\/strong> before deactivating.<\/p><\/dd>\n Lens hashes every IP address with SHA-256 using a per-site salt before storage. Raw IPs are never written to the database. User-agent strings and request URIs are stored as-is for analytical purposes. You can configure log retention (default 90 days) and wipe logs at any time from Settings \u2192 Data & Privacy<\/strong>.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Product pages are treated as standard post types for crawler logging and AEO scoring.<\/p><\/dd>\n The crawler dashboard and Scans page work everywhere. The real-time scoring sidebar requires the block editor. In the Classic Editor, you trigger a scan from the Scans page instead.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Read-only endpoints under Email jisan@ewebmarketing.com.au. Please do not file public GitHub issues for security reports.<\/p><\/dd>\n For every URL that AI bots have crawled, Lens shows how many times that URL was cited in your citation checks and computes an efficiency ratio (citations \u00f7 crawls). Zero-efficiency rows are pages where AI bots consume crawl budget without ever citing you \u2014 the highest-priority pages to improve.<\/p><\/dd>\n AI bots fall into three functional categories that most SEO tools lump together. Training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended, DeepSeekBot, Applebot-Extended) ingest content to train future AI models \u2014 blocking them removes you from future training corpora. Retrieval crawlers (OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot) fetch content at query time to include in AI answers with citations \u2014 blocking them means you will NOT be cited by that answer engine. Assistant browsers (ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User, MistralAI-User) represent real users asking an AI to visit your page. Lens is the only plugin that lets you make these decisions per category.<\/p><\/dd>\n A one-click HTML report aggregating every piece of data Lens has collected on your site \u2014 score distribution histogram, worst-20 and best-20 pages, blind spots, and a prioritised action list. Ideal for agencies onboarding a new client site or presenting month-over-month improvement to stakeholders.<\/p><\/dd>\nWhat makes Lens different<\/h4>\n\n
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lens-ai-visibility-monitor<\/code> folder to \/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> or install through Plugins \u2192 Add New<\/strong> in the WordPress admin.<\/li>\n\n
Does Lens replace my SEO plugin?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is it really free?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Do I need an OpenAI account?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will it slow my site down?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How much does the OpenAI API cost?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What happens to my data on uninstall?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is the crawler log GDPR-compliant?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does Lens work with WooCommerce?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it work in the Classic Editor?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is there a REST API?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
\/wp-json\/lens\/v1\/<\/code> expose crawler data, scans, and citation history. Authentication uses standard WordPress application passwords.<\/p><\/dd>\nWhere do I report a security issue?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What is the Crawl \u2192 Citation efficiency view?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What is the training vs retrieval vs assistant taxonomy?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What is the site-wide baseline audit?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What is Chrome\u2019s Agentic Browsing readiness category?<\/h3><\/dt>\n