VigIA (Spanish for “lookout” or “watchman”, incorporating “IA” – Spanish for “AI”) is a comprehensive WordPress plugin that tracks, analyzes, and helps you control AI crawler activity on your website.
What does VigIA do?
- Tracks AI crawlers visiting your site (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and 50+ others)
- Provides detailed analytics with charts, statistics, and exportable reports
- Blocks unwanted crawlers via PHP (403 response)
- Manages robots.txt rules for AI crawlers with compliance monitoring
- Sends email alerts about crawler activity (daily, weekly, or monthly)
- Generates llms.txt files to help AI systems understand your site
- Exposes abilities for AI agents and automation tools (WordPress 6.9+)
Key Features
Analytics Dashboard * Total visits, unique crawlers, and pages crawled statistics * Timeline chart with daily breakdown * Category distribution (AI Training, AI Search, AI Assistant, Data Scraper) * Top crawlers and most crawled pages tables * Recent activity log with filters * Period comparison functionality * CSV export
Crawler Blocking * Block crawlers via PHP with 403 Forbidden response * Quick block dropdown in analytics dashboard * Manage blocks from Extras page * Works on any server (Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed, etc.)
Robots.txt Management * Add Disallow rules for AI crawlers * Visual preview of your robots.txt * Compliance monitoring: see which crawlers ignore your rules * One-click blocking for non-compliant crawlers * Works with both physical and virtual robots.txt
Email Alerts * Daily, weekly, or monthly reports * Three detail levels: Minimal, Normal, Complete * Non-compliant crawler warnings * Activity comparison with previous period
LLMs.txt Generator * Select content by post type with one click * Filter by taxonomies (categories, tags, custom) * Manual include/exclude with AJAX search * Exclude by URL patterns (wildcards supported) * SEO plugin integration (auto-exclude noindex content) * Auto-regeneration (daily, weekly, monthly) * Robots.txt integration (add llms.txt and llms-full.txt references) * Generate llms.txt and llms-full.txt files * Full content or excerpt mode * Compatible with Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress, and The SEO Framework
Supported AI Crawlers
VigIA monitors 50+ AI crawlers including:
- OpenAI: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User
- Anthropic: ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, Claude-SearchBot
- Google: Google-Extended, GoogleOther, Gemini-Deep-Research
- Perplexity: PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User
- Meta: Meta-ExternalAgent, FacebookBot
- Microsoft: BingBot
- ByteDance: Bytespider
- Amazon: Amazonbot
- Apple: Applebot-Extended
- And many more…
Privacy Focused
VigIA stores visitor data locally in your WordPress database. No data is sent to external servers.
Abilities API
VigIA is one of the first WordPress plugins to implement the Abilities API introduced in WordPress 6.9. This API allows AI agents, automation tools, and external systems to discover and interact with VigIA’s functionality in a standardized, secure way.
What are Abilities?
Abilities are self-contained units of functionality that VigIA exposes through WordPress’s central registry. Each ability has defined inputs, outputs, and permissions, making it easy for automation tools to understand and use them.
Available Abilities
VigIA registers the following abilities:
Analytics
vigia/get-crawler-stats– Get statistics about AI crawler visits (total visits, unique crawlers, pages crawled)vigia/get-top-crawlers– Get a ranked list of most active AI crawlersvigia/get-top-pages– Get the most crawled pages on your site
Blocking
vigia/get-blocked-items– List all blocked crawlers and IP addressesvigia/block-crawler– Block a crawler by User-Agent patternvigia/unblock-crawler– Remove an existing block
Robots.txt
vigia/get-robots-rules– Get current AI crawler rules in robots.txtvigia/add-robots-disallow– Add a Disallow directive for a crawlervigia/remove-robots-rule– Remove a robots.txt rule
Use Cases
- Automated monitoring: AI agents can query crawler statistics and alert you to anomalies
- Reactive blocking: Automation tools can block crawlers that repeatedly ignore robots.txt
- External dashboards: Aggregate data from multiple WordPress sites with VigIA installed
- WP-CLI integration: Future command-line access through the Abilities API
- n8n / Make workflows: Build custom automation flows using VigIA’s abilities
Requirements
The Abilities API requires WordPress 6.9 or later. On older WordPress versions, VigIA works normally but abilities are not available.
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