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title: "Agent ready checklist: WordPress, Elementor | Agent Ready Checklist"
description: "The agent readiness checklist for WordPress, Elementor. All 31 rows, with a verify command for each. The first step of its recipe sits beside each row."
canonical: https://agentreadychecklist.com/platform/wordpress-elementor/checklist
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last_updated: 2026-11-05
section: "Platforms"
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# Agent ready checklist: WordPress, Elementor | Agent Ready Checklist

> The agent readiness checklist for WordPress, Elementor. All 31 rows, with a verify command for each. The first step of its recipe sits beside each row.

Source: https://agentreadychecklist.com/platform/wordpress-elementor/checklist
Site: Agent Ready Checklist
Last reviewed: 2026-11-05
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# Agent ready checklist: WordPress, Elementor

The checklist for WordPress and Elementor: all 31 rows, with the first step of the recipe where one exists. WordPress and Elementor has a recipe on 31 rows: 21 direct, 10 with a workaround and 0 not possible on the platform. The first recipe, for AR-FIND-01, begins: Leave Settings > Reading > Search engine visibility unchecked.

## Verify with Ora

WordPress and Elementor has a direct recipe for 21 rows, and Ora's catalogue (read 2026-11-05) names a matching check for 17 of them, among them AR-FIND-01, AR-FIND-03, AR-FIND-04. After the steps are live, one audit shows which of those fixes the score picks up.

```bash
npx ax@0.10 audit https://example.com --min-score 70
```

Run it again with `--force` after a deploy, so the audit skips Ora's cache. [Gate deploys on it in CI](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/gate-deploys-on-agent-readiness-in-ci/), [why this site recommends Ora](https://agentreadychecklist.com/verify-with-ora/), [the crosswalk of rows and checks](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ora-checks/).

## All 31 rows on WordPress, Elementor

| Identifier | Level | Layer | What it asks | Verify command | On WordPress and Elementor |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AR-FIND-01 | MUST | Find | Do not block agents | verify.sh --only=reach-as-agent,robots-verdicts | recipe: Leave Settings > Reading > Search engine visibility unchecked. |
| AR-FIND-02 | SHOULD | Find | Answers on one first-party page | manual check, see the page | recipe: Publish each answer once, as a page on your own domain. |
| AR-FIND-03 | SHOULD | Find | Sitemap listed in robots.txt | verify.sh --only=sitemap-listed | recipe: Core publishes /wp-sitemap.xml and adds `Sitemap: https://example.com/wp-sitemap.xml` to… |
| AR-FIND-04 | MAY | Find | AI Catalog at .well-known | verify.sh --only=ai-catalog | recipe: Upload `.well-known/ai-catalog.json` to the web root (the web server serves it before… |
| AR-READ-01 | MUST | Read | Answer in the initial HTML | verify.sh --only=initial-html | recipe: PHP templates render on the server, so post content is in the initial HTML. |
| AR-READ-02 | MUST | Read | Real HTTP status codes | verify.sh --only=status-codes | recipe: Keep a 404.php template; core sends 404 for unknown URLs. |
| AR-READ-03 | SHOULD | Read | Home page with real links | verify.sh --only=initial-html | recipe: Put Docs, Product and Pricing in the theme header or footer menu (Appearance > Menus, or… |
| AR-READ-04 | SHOULD | Read | Docs that answer agent tasks | manual check, see the page | recipe: For each of your top five agent tasks, write a page that holds the steps as text, in… |
| AR-READ-05 | SHOULD | Read | Fenced, language-tagged code | verify.sh --only=code-fences | recipe: Use the core Code block; it outputs `<pre class="wp-block-code"><code>`. |
| AR-READ-06 | SHOULD | Read | Link the discovery files | verify.sh --only=llms-linked,openapi | recipe: Link /llms.txt and /openapi.json from the footer menu, and print `<link rel="alternate"… |
| AR-READ-07 | SHOULD | Read | Ship llms.txt | verify.sh --only=llms-linked | workaround: Core has none. |
| AR-READ-08 | SHOULD | Read | JSON-LD on key pages | verify.sh --only=json-ld | recipe: Print JSON-LD in wp_head: `add_action('wp_head', function(){ echo '<script… |
| AR-READ-09 | MAY | Read | Advertise a markdown mirror | verify.sh --only=markdown-negotiation | recipe: Advertise a mirror with a header: `add_action('send_headers', function(){ header('Link:… |
| AR-READ-11 | SHOULD | Read | Pricing as first-party HTML | verify.sh --only=initial-html | recipe: Publish plans and limits as text or a core Table block on a /pricing page. |
| AR-ACT-01 | SHOULD | Act | Auth an agent can finish | verify.sh --only=oauth-metadata | workaround: Core ships application passwords, which give an agent a self-serve credential for the REST… |
| AR-ACT-02 | SHOULD | Act | OpenAPI contract | verify.sh --only=openapi | recipe: Upload openapi.json to the web root or expose it from a custom REST route registered with… |
| AR-ACT-03 | SHOULD | Act | MCP over Streamable HTTP | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | workaround: WordPress REST routes are registered with register_rest_route() and live under /wp-json/. |
| AR-ACT-04 | MAY | Act | MCP server card | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | recipe: Place the card at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json the same way the AR-FIND-04 recipe… |
| AR-ACT-05 | MAY | Act | MCP Apps view | manual check, see the page | workaround: An MCP Apps view is a ui:// resource listed by resources/list on your MCP server. |
| AR-ACT-06 | SHOULD | Act | SDKs and a CLI | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | recipe: Publish the SDK and the CLI from the product's own repository to npm or PyPI; the website… |
| AR-ACT-07 | SHOULD | Act | WebMCP tools | verify.sh --only=webmcp | recipe: Enqueue a footer script with `wp_enqueue_script('webmcp',… |
| AR-ACT-08 | MAY | Act | Agent payments | curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" <paid-endpoint> | workaround: WordPress REST routes are registered with register_rest_route() and live under /wp-json/. |
| AR-ACT-09 | MAY | Act | NLWeb /ask endpoint | curl -s "<origin>/ask?query=pricing" \| jq -e "." | workaround: WordPress REST routes are registered with register_rest_route() and live under /wp-json/. |
| AR-ACT-10 | MUST | Act | An MCP server or a CLI | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | recipe: A CLI meets AR-ACT-10 on any platform: publish it as described in the AR-ACT-06 recipe… |
| CF-CONTENT-SIGNALS | CLOUDFLARE | Find | Content-Signal line | verify.sh --only=robots-verdicts | recipe: Append the line through the filter: `add_filter('robots_txt', fn($out) =>… |
| CF-PAY-PER-CRAWL | CLOUDFLARE | Find | Pay per crawl, HTTP 402 | curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -A "GPTBot/1.0" <url> | workaround: Pay per crawl is a feature of Cloudflare AI Crawl Control, set per Cloudflare zone and in… |
| VERCEL-ROBOTS-EXCLUSIONS | VERCEL | Find | Robots exclusions | verify.sh --only=robots-verdicts | recipe: Open the robots.txt that WordPress and Elementor serves for your site and read every… |
| CF-MARKDOWN-NEGOTIATION | CLOUDFLARE | Read | Markdown by Accept | verify.sh --only=markdown-negotiation | workaround: Core cannot negotiate. |
| VERCEL-NEGOTIATION-HEADERS | VERCEL | Read | Markdown headers | verify.sh --only=markdown-negotiation | workaround: Wherever markdown is served, send `header('Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=utf-8');… |
| CF-OAUTH-DISCOVERY | CLOUDFLARE | Act | OAuth discovery files | verify.sh --only=oauth-metadata | workaround: Core ships application passwords, not an OAuth server. |
| CF-AGENT-SKILLS | CLOUDFLARE | Act | Agent Skills index | verify.sh --only=agent-skills | recipe: Upload `.well-known/agent-skills/index.json` and the SKILL.md files to the web root; the… |

## Sources

-   [ora.ai/api/checks, contract 1.38.0](https://ora.ai/api/checks?utm_source=agentreadychecklist.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=platform-checklist)read 2026-11-05
-   [registry.npmjs.org/ax, the ax README](https://registry.npmjs.org/ax)read 2026-11-05
-   [developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/robots\_txt/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/robots_txt/)read 2026-11-04
-   [make.wordpress.org/core/2020/07/22/new-xml-sitemaps-functionality-in-wordpress-5-5/](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/07/22/new-xml-sitemaps-functionality-in-wordpress-5-5/)read 2026-11-04
-   [developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp\_head/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_head/)read 2026-11-04
-   [developer.wordpress.org/themes/classic-themes/functionality/404-pages/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/classic-themes/functionality/404-pages/)read 2026-11-04
-   [developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/send\_headers/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/send_headers/)read 2026-11-04
-   [yoast.com/features/llms-txt/](https://yoast.com/features/llms-txt/)read 2026-11-04
-   [developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/extending-the-rest-api/adding-custom-endpoints/](https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/extending-the-rest-api/adding-custom-endpoints/)read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-05. AgentReady v2.0, read 2026-11-04.