EU AI Act Ready

EU AI Act Ready is a practical WordPress compliance plugin that helps site owners meet the transparency and disclosure obligations introduced by the EU AI Act. It provides everything you need to disclose AI-generated content, AI-powered chatbots, and AI systems to visitors – and to track and document your compliance progress through a readiness score, self-assessment wizard, and exportable compliance report.

The EU AI Act is now in force. Article 50 requires disclosure when users interact with AI systems, AI-generated content, or AI-manipulated media. Article 4 requires deployers of AI systems to take steps to ensure that staff have sufficient AI literacy. EU AI Act Ready addresses both articles with practical, locally-running WordPress tools. No content or personal data is sent to external services.

EU AI Act Ready is a technical transparency tool. It does not provide legal advice or guarantee regulatory compliance.

EU AI Act Articles Covered

Article 50 – Transparency obligations

Article 50 requires clear disclosure when users interact with AI systems or AI-generated content. Specifically:

• Chatbots and virtual assistants must inform users they are interacting with an AI, not a human.
• AI-generated or AI-manipulated content – including text, images, audio, and video – must be labelled.
• Content that could be mistaken for authentic human-created material requires clear disclosure.

EU AI Act Ready supports these requirements through configurable visitor notices for AI content, AI-powered chatbots, and AI systems detected on your site.

Article 4 – AI Literacy obligations

Article 4 requires deployers of AI systems to take reasonable steps to ensure that their staff have sufficient AI literacy – understanding what AI tools are in use, their capabilities, their limitations, and how to raise concerns. The AI Literacy checklist in EU AI Act Ready lets you track whether your organisation has addressed these obligations.

Final responsibility for assessing and meeting legal obligations remains with the site owner or their legal counsel.

Who This Plugin Is For

• Bloggers and content creators who publish AI-generated articles, images, or media and need to disclose this clearly to readers
• Businesses using AI chatbots for customer support, lead generation, or virtual assistance
• E-commerce and SaaS sites integrating AI personalisation, recommendation tools, or AI-generated product descriptions
• Agencies and developers building compliant WordPress sites for EU-based clients who need documented transparency measures
• News sites and publishers disclosing the use of AI tools in content research or production
• Any WordPress site owner who wants to document AI transparency for internal audit, stakeholder review, or legal assessment

Key Features

• Four Disclosure Levels – Choose from No AI used, AI-assisted, AI-generated, or AI-generated & human-reviewed – each level shows a distinct, accurate notice to visitors
• Frontend Transparency Notices – Automatically display clear visitor notices when content is marked as AI-generated, in four configurable styles: Banner, Inline, Badge, or Modal
• Quick Edit & Bulk Support – Set the AI disclosure level directly from the Posts list via Quick Edit or bulk actions, without opening the post editor
• Shortcode Support – Place an AI disclosure notice anywhere using [eu_ai_disclosure]; supports type (content/image/chatbot), style, and message attributes with automatic fallback to saved settings
• RSS & Feed Disclosure – Optionally append a plain-text AI disclosure to RSS feed items and prefix titles with [AI Content] for AI-marked posts, keeping feed readers informed
• Chatbot Transparency – Adds disclosure notices for 15+ AI-powered chatbot platforms including Formilla, Intercom, Drift, Tidio, Tawk.to, Zendesk Chat, LiveChat, Crisp, Freshchat, Smartsupp, HubSpot Chat, Chaport, Userlike, Olark, and Chatra, in five styles: Banner, Badge, Inline, Modal, or Tooltip; includes Auto-detect mode that automatically identifies the active platform
• Compliance Readiness Score – Dashboard displays a 0-100 readiness score across six key obligations with a traffic-light indicator and a checklist of unmet items so site owners know exactly what to address
• AI Systems Registry – Detects installed WordPress plugins that use AI and matches them against a remote registry of 140+ AI tools; also uses “Possibly AI” heuristic scoring to flag candidate plugins not yet in the registry, and probes your site’s frontend for known AI tool JavaScript signatures; shows all detected AI systems with category, EU AI Act article, and per-tool show/hide toggle for the frontend disclosure notice
• WordPress Dashboard Widget – A compact readiness overview on the main WordPress Dashboard showing your current readiness score, detected AI system count, AI content count, and quick links to plugin pages
• Compliance Self-Assessment – Step-by-step wizard covering six EU AI Act use cases (chatbots, AI content, AI images, personalisation, translation, synthetic media); identifies applicable obligations and recommends next actions
• AI Literacy Checklist (Article 4) – Track whether staff awareness, policy documentation, and training obligations have been addressed; completion counts toward the readiness score
• Export Compliance Report – Generate a print-friendly report summarising score, AI systems, assessment answers, and literacy status; suitable for internal audit or stakeholder review
• EU AI Act Timeline – Dashboard section showing enforcement dates with countdowns so you always know what is coming and when
• AI Content Admin Page – Dedicated admin page listing all AI-marked content items (posts, pages, and custom post types) with their disclosure level, with one-click unmark and bulk actions
• Media & Image Analysis – Flags potentially AI-generated images using heuristic metadata signals and filename patterns
• Bulk Scanning Tools – Scan multiple media items simultaneously from the admin dashboard
• Manual Override Controls – Mark or unmark content and media as AI-generated at any time
• Customizable Disclosure Messages – Configure wording, style, and placement of transparency notices; each disclosure level shows its own default message or a shared custom message
• Lightweight & Performance-Friendly – Detection runs asynchronously or on demand without slowing down your site

Minimum Requirements

• PHP 7.4 or greater (PHP 8.0 or greater recommended)
• MySQL 5.5.5 or greater, OR MariaDB 10.1 or greater
• WordPress 6.0 or greater