Title: Web Plura Site Discovery Checker – Indexing & Search Readiness Author: Web Plura Published: 7 July 2026 Last modified: 4 October 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/web-plura-site-discovery-checker/assets/banner-772x250.png? rev=3599318) ![](https://ps.w.org/web-plura-site-discovery-checker/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev =3599308) # Web Plura Site Discovery Checker – Indexing & Search Readiness By [Web Plura](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wplura/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/web-plura-site-discovery-checker.zip) * [Details](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/web-plura-site-discovery-checker/#description) * [Reviews](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/web-plura-site-discovery-checker/#reviews) * [Installation](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/web-plura-site-discovery-checker/#installation) * [Development](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/web-plura-site-discovery-checker/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/web-plura-site-discovery-checker/) ## Description A WordPress site can be online and still have discovery problems. Search visibility settings, robots.txt rules, missing sitemap signals, noindex directives, canonical mismatches, password protection, weak homepage metadata, or unclear identity signals can make a site harder for search engines and other discovery systems to understand. Web Plura Site Discovery Checker reviews these practical signals from wp-admin. The Free plugin checks the site’s own public homepage, robots.txt, WordPress sitemap, optional llms.txt file, and sampled same-site URLs, then reports findings that may need manual review. The Free plugin runs locally in WordPress. It does not require Web Plura Cloud, Web Plura Pro, a paid account, an AI provider, or an external SEO service for the included checks. It reports local findings and suggested next steps, but it does not automatically change SEO settings, submit sitemaps, contact search engines, or guarantee indexing, ranking, or AI-answer inclusion. #### Key Discovery Checks Use the Free plugin to review: * WordPress search engine visibility. * Homepage HTTP response status. * robots.txt availability. * robots.txt crawl-blocking signals. * Sitemap directives in robots.txt when present. * WordPress sitemap readiness. * Same-site sitemap URL samples. * Sampled child sitemap availability. * Sampled sitemap URL type summaries. * Sampled noindex directives. * Sampled canonical tag signals. * Sampled password-protection or access-restriction signals. * Optional llms.txt availability. * Basic Organization or LocalBusiness schema hints. * Homepage title, meta description, site identity, social preview metadata, sameAs or profile links, and logo or identity image hints. * Local readiness score, grouped findings, fix-first suggestions, local report, CSV export, and retained local history. #### Indexing and Search Visibility If a WordPress site is not being indexed as expected, Site Discovery Checker can review common local blockers. It checks the WordPress search engine visibility setting, homepage response status, sampled noindex signals, sampled canonical signals, password- protection indicators, and basic homepage metadata. These checks help with troubleshooting. They do not control how Google, Bing, or other search systems crawl, index, rank, or display a site. #### Robots.txt Checks The plugin checks whether robots.txt responds from the current site and whether it appears to include broad crawl-blocking rules for all crawlers. It also checks whether robots.txt exposes Sitemap directives when they are present. The Free plugin reads and reports robots.txt signals. It does not edit robots.txt, simulate every crawler, or guarantee that every crawler will interpret the file the same way. #### Sitemap Readiness Site Discovery Checker reviews whether the WordPress sitemap is available and whether same-site URL samples can be read from the sitemap response. When the sitemap response is an index, the plugin samples child sitemap URLs and checks whether sampled child sitemaps respond with same-site URL entries. The sitemap checks are sample-based. The plugin is not a full sitemap crawler and does not submit URLs or sitemaps to Google, Bing, or other search engines. #### Noindex and Canonical Signals The plugin samples the homepage and a small set of same-site sitemap URLs for noindex directives, canonical tags, canonical mismatches, and password-protection signals. Use these findings as a focused review list for your SEO plugin, theme, content settings, or hosting configuration. They are not a complete sitewide canonical audit. #### Homepage and Response Checks The local check requests the site’s own public homepage and reports whether WordPress can confirm a successful same-site response. It also reviews the homepage title, meta description, and basic identity signals that help explain what the site or organization is about. This can be useful before launch, after migration, during an SEO handoff, or when a site appears live but is difficult to discover. #### Schema and Identity Signals Site Discovery Checker looks for basic Organization or LocalBusiness schema hints in rendered homepage HTML. It also checks whether core identity fields such as name, URL, sameAs, logo, or image appear to be present where supported. This is a lightweight schema and identity review. It is not a complete structured- data validator, a rich-results validator, or a replacement for your SEO plugin’s schema tools. #### Social Preview and Entity Signals The plugin reviews homepage signals that can help identify the site or organization, including the WordPress site title, tagline or meta description, homepage title, Open Graph or Twitter preview metadata, sameAs or common social profile links, and likely logo or identity image hints. These checks are reported in plain findings so a site owner, developer, or SEO specialist can decide what to adjust manually. #### Optional llms.txt Check The Free plugin checks whether an `llms.txt` file responds from the current site. This is treated as an optional public discovery signal. The plugin does not claim that `llms.txt` is required by search engines or AI systems, and it does not measure visibility inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, or other AI services. #### Findings, Reports and History After a local check, review grouped findings and the highest-priority items first. The latest local readiness snapshot can be copied into a handoff summary or exported as CSV. The plugin also keeps recent local check history in WordPress so administrators can compare recent results. The local readiness score summarizes the supported checks performed by the plugin; it is a troubleshooting aid, not a Google ranking score, SEO authority score, or AI visibility score. #### What the Free Plugin Does Not Do The Free plugin does not: * Change SEO settings automatically. * Edit robots.txt, sitemap settings, noindex settings, canonical tags, titles, meta descriptions, or schema output. * Submit URLs or sitemaps to search engines. * Query AI providers. * Track prompts, rankings, competitors, citations, or hosted trends. * Crawl competitor websites. * Replace a full SEO plugin. * Guarantee indexing, ranking, traffic, or inclusion in AI-generated answers. * Require Web Plura Cloud, Web Plura Pro, an account, subscription, license, entitlement, or hosted monitoring service for included local checks. #### Local Processing and Privacy The Free plugin stores the local data acknowledgement, latest local readiness snapshot, and retained local history in the site’s own WordPress database. During a scan, WordPress may request the site’s own public homepage, robots.txt, WordPress sitemap, optional llms.txt file, and sampled same-site public URLs so the plugin can review discovery signals. The Free plugin does not send local scan results, CSV reports, prompt data, ranking data, competitor lists, or administrator details to Web Plura Cloud, AI providers, analytics services, advertising services, or hosted monitoring services. #### Separate Pro and Hosted Workflows Separate Pro or hosted Web Plura workflows may support cloud-backed AI visibility monitoring, prompt review, competitor tracking, scheduled monitoring, hosted report history, client workflows, and alerts where those services are active. Those hosted workflows are separate from the Free local checker. The included local checks, local findings, local report, CSV export, and retained local history remain available without a hosted account. #### External Services The Free plugin does not connect to third-party AI, SEO, analytics, advertising, or hosted monitoring services. During a local check, the plugin performs same-site HTTP requests from WordPress to the WordPress site’s own public URLs. These requests may include the homepage, robots.txt, sitemap URLs, optional llms.txt, and sampled same-site public URLs. The requests are used only to inspect the site’s own public discovery signals and generate the local readiness snapshot. Opening product, documentation, support, terms, privacy, or upgrade links in wp- admin will load the linked Web Plura website in the administrator’s browser. The Free plugin does not attach local scan results to those links. #### Resources * Product page: https://wplura.com/products/web-plura-site-discovery-checker * Documentation: https://wplura.com/docs * Support: https://wplura.com/support * Terms: https://wplura.com/terms * Privacy: https://wplura.com/privacy ### External Services This free plugin does not connect to third-party AI, SEO, analytics, advertising, or hosted monitoring services. During a local check, the plugin performs same-site HTTP requests from WordPress to the WordPress site’s own public URLs. These requests may include the homepage, robots.txt, sitemap URLs, optional llms.txt, and sampled same-site public URLs. The requests are used only to inspect the site’s own public discovery signals and generate the local readiness snapshot. The free plugin does not send local scan results to Web Plura Cloud. Opening product, documentation, support, terms, privacy, or upgrade links in wp-admin will load the linked Web Plura website in the administrator’s browser, but the free plugin does not attach local scan results to those links. ### Privacy The free plugin stores the local data acknowledgement, latest local scan, and retained local history in WordPress options. The local report may include public URLs from the same WordPress site and basic status details about discovery signals. Administrators can export the latest local snapshot as a CSV file after accepting the local data acknowledgement. The free plugin does not collect cloud passwords, payment information, prompt data, competitor lists, rankings, citations, AI-provider results, or hosted monitoring data. ## Screenshots [⌊Dashboard after a local discovery check with readiness score, checked signals, open findings, and fix-first results.⌉⌊Dashboard after a local discovery check with readiness score, checked signals, open findings, and fix-first results.⌉[ Dashboard after a local discovery check with readiness score, checked signals, open findings, and fix-first results. [⌊Findings page showing grouped local discovery issues for crawl, robots, sitemap, schema, and metadata review.⌉⌊Findings page showing grouped local discovery issues for crawl, robots, sitemap, schema, and metadata review.⌉[ Findings page showing grouped local discovery issues for crawl, robots, sitemap, schema, and metadata review. [⌊Free and Pro Workflows page clarifying local free checks versus separate hosted monitoring services.⌉⌊Free and Pro Workflows page clarifying local free checks versus separate hosted monitoring services.⌉[ Free and Pro Workflows page clarifying local free checks versus separate hosted monitoring services. [⌊Data & Scope page explaining what is checked locally, stored locally, and not sent by the free plugin.⌉⌊Data & Scope page explaining what is checked locally, stored locally, and not sent by the free plugin.⌉[ Data & Scope page explaining what is checked locally, stored locally, and not sent by the free plugin. ## Installation 1. Upload the `web-plura-site-discovery-checker` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`. 2. Activate the plugin from the Plugins screen. 3. Open `Web Plura Site Discovery Checker` in wp-admin. 4. Accept the local data acknowledgement. 5. Click `Run Local Check` on the Dashboard. 6. Review the Findings and Report pages. 7. Download the CSV report if you need a local handoff file. ## FAQ ### Can this help when my WordPress site is not being indexed? It can help review common local blockers such as search visibility, robots.txt access, sitemap availability, sampled noindex signals, sampled canonical signals, password protection, homepage response status, and metadata signals. It does not guarantee indexing or ranking. ### What robots.txt checks does it perform? It checks whether robots.txt responds from the current site, whether it appears to block all crawlers from the whole site, and whether Sitemap directives are present when available. It reports findings; it does not edit robots.txt. ### What sitemap checks does it perform? It checks WordPress sitemap readiness, reads same-site URL samples, reviews sitemap index coverage, samples child sitemap availability, and summarizes sampled sitemap URL types. It does not crawl every sitemap URL or submit sitemaps to search engines. ### Does it check noindex and canonical tags? Yes. It checks the homepage and sampled same-site sitemap URLs for noindex directives, canonical tags, canonical mismatches, and password-protection signals. ### Does it validate structured data? It checks for basic Organization or LocalBusiness schema hints and related identity fields on the homepage. It is not a complete structured-data validator or rich-results testing tool. ### What does the readiness score mean? The local readiness score summarizes supported discovery checks performed by the plugin. It is a troubleshooting aid, not a Google ranking score, SEO authority score, traffic score, or AI visibility score. ### Does it submit my sitemap to Google or Bing? No. The Free plugin checks local sitemap readiness and same-site sitemap samples. It does not submit URLs or sitemaps to search engines. ### Does it change my SEO settings? No. It reports findings and suggested next steps. It does not automatically change robots.txt rules, sitemap settings, noindex settings, canonical tags, schema markup, titles, descriptions, or SEO plugin settings. ### Does it query ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI providers? No. The Free plugin checks local WordPress readiness signals and same-site public URLs. Hosted AI visibility monitoring, where available, belongs to separate Pro or cloud workflows. ### Does it track rankings, AI citations, prompts, or competitors? No. The Free plugin checks the current WordPress site’s own local and same-site public signals only. It does not track rankings, prompts, competitors, citations, or hosted trends. ### Does the Free plugin require a Web Plura Cloud account? No. Included local checks, findings, reports, CSV export, and retained local history work without Web Plura Cloud, Web Plura Pro, a paid account, subscription, license, entitlement, or hosted monitoring service. ### What data leaves my site? The Free plugin does not send local scan results to Web Plura Cloud, AI providers, SEO services, analytics services, advertising services, or hosted monitoring services. It may request the site’s own public URLs from WordPress during a local check. ### Can it replace my SEO plugin? No. It complements SEO plugins by reviewing focused discovery and indexability signals. Use your SEO plugin, theme, hosting tools, and content workflow to make actual site changes. ### Can I export or review previous checks? Yes. After accepting the local data acknowledgement and running a check, administrators can export the latest local report as CSV and review retained recent local history inside WordPress. ### What happens when I uninstall the plugin? Uninstall cleanup removes the plugin’s local options, including the latest local scan, retained local history, local consent flag, install identifier, last scan metadata, plugin version option, and scan lock transient. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors and Developers “Web Plura Site Discovery Checker – Indexing & Search Readiness” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Web Plura ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wplura/) [Translate “Web Plura Site Discovery Checker – Indexing & Search Readiness” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/web-plura-site-discovery-checker) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/web-plura-site-discovery-checker/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/web-plura-site-discovery-checker/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/web-plura-site-discovery-checker/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/web-plura-site-discovery-checker/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Change Log #### 0.1.6 * Refreshed the WordPress.org readme for clearer site discovery, indexing readiness, sitemap, robots, and schema search intent. #### 0.1.4 * Persisted the AJAX local-check completion notice across the dashboard refresh so administrators receive clear success or failure feedback. #### 0.1.2 * Added a Free-owned dashboard extension surface with the legacy dashboard card hook as fallback for reversible Pro monitoring replacements. #### 0.1.0 * Initial release. * Added basic local readiness checks for search visibility, homepage response, robots, sitemap, sampled indexability, canonical tags, password protection, optional llms.txt, entity clarity, sameAs or social profile signals, and homepage schema hints. * Added fix-first local findings, latest local CSV export, and retained local basic scan history. ## Meta * Version **0.1.6** * Last updated **3 days ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 5.8 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.3** * PHP version ** 8.1 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/web-plura-site-discovery-checker/) * Tags * [indexing](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/indexing/)[noindex](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/noindex/) [robots.txt](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/robots-txt/)[seo](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/) [sitemap](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sitemap/) * [Advanced View](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/web-plura-site-discovery-checker/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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