About this plugin
AI assistants are becoming a real shopping channel: ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini and Perplexity read your store’s structured data to decide whether to recommend your products. Most stores expose thin or conflicting product schema — this plugin fixes that.
org Product node per product page, delivered from your OptAEO account after your product data has been scanned, scored and remediated. OptAEO pushes that node into your store; the storefront renders it locally, so a page view never waits for the OptAEO API. It also:
- Suppresses the competing/thin Product schema that WooCommerce core, Yoast SEO and Rank Math emit on product pages — AI engines see exactly one authoritative source instead of conflicting nodes.
- Renders your remediated SEO meta title and meta description on product pages (WooCommerce core has no native fields for these).
- Serves the AI-agent discovery files at your store root — /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, /agents.md and /agents.txt — a curated, always-current catalogue AI crawlers read first, with your crawl/citation/training policy.
ai. The OptAEO platform is where your products are scanned, scored against a 16-factor AI-visibility model, and fixed; this plugin is the delivery layer that puts the results on your live storefront. Without a connected account the plugin stays inactive (it renders nothing and contacts no external service).
External services
ai), the service that computes the structured data and discovery files it renders. It is required for every feature of this plugin — nothing is rendered without it.
What is sent, and when:
- GET https://optaeo.ai/api/plugin/product — used only for a bounded background refresh when a product has no locally delivered OptAEO node. Sends: your OptAEO site token (in a request header) and the WooCommerce product ID. Returns the schema.org JSON-LD, meta title and meta description for that product. Product-page rendering itself reads local WordPress data and makes no outbound request.
- GET https://optaeo.ai/api/plugin/protocol — requested when /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, /agents.md or /agents.txt is fetched on your store (cached for 5 minutes). Sends: your OptAEO site token (in a request header) and the file type requested. Returns the discovery/policy file content.
No customer data, order data, visitor IPs, or analytics are ever sent to OptAEO by this plugin. The site token identifies your store to your own OptAEO account. The plugin exposes token-authenticated inbound REST routes: optaeo/v1/schema accepts OptAEO’s delivered schema and SEO metadata, optaeo/v1/status confirms delivery state, and optaeo/v1/flush clears storefront caches after a fix.
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