Stop leading with llms.txt - #15
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It is a real feature and it stays one, but it was carrying more weight in the positioning than it earns: CiteCue writes that file and the plugin serves it, which is the least of what this plugin does, and AI crawlers do not meaningfully read it. Every placement that presented it as a headline capability now names something the plugin actually decides at request time. Five placements, in descending prominence: the directory banner's eyebrow, the plugin header description (which is what wp-admin's plugin list shows), the readme's feature bullets, the paragraph that opened by explaining llms.txt before getting to the live-request work, and the settings screen's intro. The banner eyebrow drops to two terms rather than padding to three — both true today, and neither promising anything unreleased. What is deliberately untouched: the External Services section, which must document every request the plugin makes and is a directory review requirement; the verification FAQ, where llms.txt is the thing being requested; the settings toggle and status row, which govern the feature; and the changelog, which is history. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
llms.txt stays a feature; it stops being a headline. CiteCue writes that file and the plugin serves it — the least of what the plugin does — and AI crawlers don't meaningfully read it. Every placement that presented it as a headline capability now names something the plugin actually decides at request time.
Five placements, in descending order of prominence:
AI CRAWLERS · LLMS.TXT · METADATAAI CRAWLERS · SEO METADATA**llms.txt**bulletThe plugin header line is the one with the widest reach — it's what wp-admin's plugin list renders under the name.
Deliberately untouched
Banner note
The eyebrow drops to two terms rather than padding back to three. Both are true of what's published today, and neither promises anything unreleased — worth keeping in mind because
assets/can be pushed to SVN independently of the held 1.2.0 release, so the banner may go live against 1.1.2.Regenerated with
assets-src/build-assets.sh; both PNG sizes updated.Verification
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