Make WooCommerce and Wordpress Visible to ChatGPT, Claude & Perplexity

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ChatGPT handles over 1 billion queries daily. Perplexity processes 780+ million searches per month. Google's AI Overviews now appear on 30%+ of searches.

And your WooCommerce store? Invisible to all of them.

Traditional SEO optimizes for Google's link-based index. But when someone asks ChatGPT "best wireless headphones under $100" or Claude "recommend a CRM for small teams" — those AI engines don't crawl your sitemap. They look for structured, machine-readable content that fits inside a context window.

This is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) — making your content visible to AI search engines, not just traditional ones.

I built an open-source WordPress plugin to solve this for WooCommerce stores.

The Problem

Your products have titles, descriptions, prices, reviews — all the data AI engines need. But it's buried in HTML, JavaScript, navigation menus, and sidebar widgets. LLMs waste their token budget parsing

soup instead of understanding your catalog.

Meanwhile, robots.txt was designed for Googlebot in 2004. It tells crawlers what not to index. There's nothing that tells AI engines what to index and how to read it.

That's what llms.txt does — a structured Markdown file at your site root, specifically designed for LLMs. Think of it as robots.txt for the AI era, but instead of blocking, it guides.

What GEO AI Woo Does

GEO AI Woo is a free, open-source WordPress plugin that makes your site AI-readable with zero configuration.

Automatic llms.txt Generation
The plugin generates /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt as static files at your WordPress root. Products, pages, and posts — structured and ready for 13 AI crawlers: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, LLaMA, Qwen, ERNIE etc.

WooCommerce-First

This isn't a generic llms.txt generator. It understands WooCommerce:

Products automatically included with price, stock status, ratings, and attributes
Variable products show price ranges and available variations
Sale prices display both regular and discounted values
Enhanced Schema.org markup (JSON-LD) for Product and Article types
Dedicated GEO AI tab in the WooCommerce product data panel

AI-Powered Descriptions

Don't want to write AI summaries manually? The plugin generates them via Claude or OpenAI APIs:

One-click generation per post/product
Bulk generation (up to 50 at a time)
Customizable prompt templates with {title}, {content}, {type} placeholders
Encrypted API key storage

Quick Start

After activation, the plugin works immediately with sensible defaults. All public posts, pages, and products are included in llms.txt. All supported AI crawlers are allowed.

Go to Settings and GEO AI Woo to customize post types, bot rules, cache frequency, and WooCommerce-specific settings.

GEO AI Woo is GPL v2, fully open, and free.