WC Entity Mapper
AI-powered search engines – ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and others – retrieve content differently from traditional crawlers. They chunk your HTML into passages without knowing which entity a passage is about, who published it, or how your concepts relate to each other. Your expertise gets fragmented, your brand attribution disappears, and the connections between your ideas become invisible.
WC Entity Mapper fixes this by publishing two files at the root of your WordPress site:
yourdomain.com/entitymap.json– a structured, entity-first knowledge index that AI retrieval systems can read directlyyourdomain.com/entitymap.html– a human- and crawler-readable companion view
This plugin is inspired by the EntityMap v1.0 open standard, created by Fred Laurent and Dixon Jones of InLinks / Waikay. The standard is published under CC BY 4.0.
WC Entity Mapper is an independent plugin made by Wild Creek Web Studio and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or maintained by the EntityMap project.
What the plugin does:
- Scans your published posts and pages and automatically extracts entity candidates – the named concepts, products, people, and topics your site covers
- Pulls descriptions from your existing SEO meta (Yoast, RankMath, or All in One SEO), falling back to excerpts and content
- Builds evidence chunks – short, attributed passages from your content – for each entity
- Suggests relationships between entities that share tags or categories
- Lets you review, edit, and refine everything in a clean admin interface
- Validates your entitymap against the spec before publishing
- Serves both files live via WordPress – no static file generation needed
- Injects discovery signals automatically: a
<link rel="entitymap">tag in every page's<head>, anEntityMap:directive in yourrobots.txt, and a footer reference to the HTML companion file
Why it matters for AI search:
Where sitemap.xml tells crawlers what pages exist, entitymap.json tells AI systems what your site knows – which entities you cover, how you define them, and what evidence backs them up. It also keeps your publisher name attached to every passage, so attribution survives when AI systems extract and redistribute your content.
Compatibility:
The plugin reads SEO meta descriptions from Yoast SEO, RankMath, and All in One SEO if installed. It works without them too.
Privacy:
This plugin does not collect, transmit, or store any user data. It does not make external HTTP requests. All processing happens locally on your server.
External services
This plugin does not send any user data or website content to external services.
The plugin references the public EntityMap v1.0 specification at:
https://entitymap.org/spec/v1.0
This specification is used only as a documentation and validation reference for the generated entitymap.json format.
No requests are made to entitymap.org during plugin operation.
EntityMap: https://entitymap.org/
Credits
This plugin is inspired by the EntityMap v1.0 open standard, created by Fred Laurent and Dixon Jones (Waikay / InLinks Optimization Ltd) and published under CC BY 4.0. Developed by Wild Creek Web Studio. This plugin is an independent implementation and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the EntityMap project.