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What AI agents actually do when you point them at a real WordPress site with ten years of plugins on it. Measured runs, named sources, and the failure modes nobody screenshots.
- robots.txt for AI Crawlers: The Actual User-Agent Strings, and What Each One Honours GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and Bingbot, with the real strings and the RFC rule that breaks most AI blocks.
- How to Measure Whether AI Search Sends You Anything Three partial signals and no complete one. Server logs, the new Search Console generative AI report, Bing AI Performance, and each one's limits.
- llms.txt for WordPress: What the Spec Actually Says and Whether Anything Reads It Google says Search does not use llms.txt. What the v2 spec asks for, what WordPress plugins generate instead, and what is still untested.
- What Self-Hosted AI Memory Actually Costs to Run Four line items, priced from published rates with the date read. Embeddings are two cents a million tokens. The bill is somewhere else.
- mem0 vs MemPalace: The Benchmark Numbers Are Not Measuring the Same Thing 94.4 and 96.6 on the same benchmark name, measuring two different quantities. What is actually comparable, and what decides it.
- MCP Server vs RAG: Which One You Actually Need They are not competing options. One is a retrieval architecture, the other is a wire protocol. The decision underneath, per data source.
- Cognee Alternatives: What You Are Actually Replacing Three reasons people leave Cognee, three different replacements, and why the most recommended swap keeps the constraint you left over.
- MCP servers for WordPress: what actually exists and what each one can do The most-starred WordPress MCP server on GitHub is archived. Here is what is actually maintained, verified against every repository on 2 September 2026.
- Guardrails for running an agent against a production WordPress site A WordPress application password has no scope and no expiry. Here is the role, the auth hook and the snapshot routine that put limits around an…
- Automating WordPress maintenance with agents: what is worth automating and what is not wp plugin verify-checksums exits zero after skipping every commercial plugin on the site. That gap defines which maintenance tasks an agent should own.