Serve Markdown versions of your posts and pages to AI agents and crawlers. Content negotiation, .md URLs, auto-discovery, and crawler logging.
As of April 2026, Serve Markdown is a WordPress AI plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 157 times in total. Requires WordPress 6.5+ and PHP 8.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2026. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: SEOPress – On-site SEO & Analytics.
AI agents from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and others read your content to generate answers — but they parse through HTML, JavaScript, and navigation just to reach it. Serve Markdown gives them a direct path: clean Markdown with structured metadata. When a crawler requests it — via an Accept: text/markdown header or a .md URL — your site responds instantly. No noise, no guesswork.
Serve Markdown adds three capabilities to your WordPress site:
1. Content Negotiation
When an AI crawler sends Accept: text/markdown, your site returns Markdown instead of HTML — no URL changes needed.
2. .md URL Suffix
Append .md to any post or page URL (e.g. example.com/my-article.md) to get the Markdown version directly.
3. Markdown Auto-Discovery
Every page includes a <link rel="alternate" t…
| WordPress | 6.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 8.1+ required |
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