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Citelayer® Premium Features & Addon Overview — What’s Free, What’s Paid

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What’s in the Free Plugin

Citelayer® is free to install and use. The free plugin is not a limited trial or a feature-gated preview — it includes everything a content site needs to be properly visible to AI systems:

All five core AI visibility protocols:

  • llms.txt generation
  • Markdown endpoints for pages and posts
  • Schema.org structured data
  • robots.txt management
  • Content-Signal Headers

Bot Analytics — The complete AI bot tracking system, including the dashboard, stat cards, trend chart, top bots leaderboard, crawler logs, CSV export, and cache compatibility tooling. No limits on data volume or retention settings.

AI Referral Tracking — Full detection and logging of human visitors arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and the other supported AI platforms.

AI Readiness Scanner — The complete site audit tool, including all applicable checks (schema, robots.txt, llms.txt, content signals, and WooCommerce checks if WooCommerce is active).

AI Blind Spots — The full content coverage analysis with AI Discovery Scores.

Analytics are not behind a paywall. The reasoning is straightforward: to make good decisions about AI visibility, you need data. Locking analytics behind a license would defeat the purpose.

WooCommerce Addon

The WooCommerce Addon extends Citelayer®’s protocols to your product catalog. It’s available separately at citelayer.ai/pricing.

With the addon active, you get:

Markdown for products — Your product post type becomes available in the Markdown Configuration settings. Every product page gets a .md URL with clean Markdown content for AI crawlers.

Schema.org for products — Enhanced structured data output for WooCommerce products, including product-specific schema types, pricing markup, availability, and identifier fields (GTIN, MPN, SKU).

Product Feed — The XML product feed at /product-feed.xml, implementing the OpenAI Agentic Commerce protocol. See Citelayer® Product Feed for AI Agents for full details.

Without the addon, a WooCommerce site still benefits from all core protocols on its standard pages (posts, pages, shop landing page, category pages). The addon adds coverage for the product post type specifically.

EDD Addon

The Easy Digital Downloads Addon provides the same extensions as the WooCommerce Addon, but for EDD-powered digital product stores:

Markdown for downloads — The download post type becomes available in Markdown Configuration.

Schema.org for downloads — Structured data for digital products, adapted for the EDD data model.

Product Feed — An XML feed of your EDD catalog at /product-feed.xml, structured for AI agent consumption.

Upsell Hints in the Free Plugin

A few places in the free plugin indicate where an addon adds functionality:

Markdown Configuration — The product and download post type checkboxes are visible but disabled, with a note that they require the respective addon.

AI Readiness Scanner — The Product Feed, Product Content, Product Image, and Product Stock checks appear when WooCommerce is active. On sites without the addon, the scanner flags the product feed as inactive. This isn’t an error — it’s accurate reporting that the feature is available but not yet enabled.

These hints show what’s possible; they don’t restrict what you already have.

Activating an Addon

  1. Purchase the addon at citelayer.ai/pricing.
  2. Download the addon .zip file from your account.
  3. In WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin and upload the .zip.
  4. Activate the plugin.
  5. Go to Citelayer® → License and enter your addon license key.
  6. Click Activate License.

Once the license is verified, the addon’s features become active immediately. No site restart or cache flush is required.

If you have multiple sites, check your license terms — addon licenses specify how many activations are included.

Free Plugin, Paid Addons — Why This Model

The five core protocols are free because they’re table stakes for any site that wants AI visibility. Holding them behind a paywall would mean sites that can’t or don’t pay remain invisible to AI systems — which doesn’t help anyone.

The addons charge for WooCommerce and EDD functionality because those integrations require significantly more maintenance surface. WooCommerce’s data model, product types, and extension ecosystem evolve frequently. The addon license funds the ongoing work of keeping the integration accurate and compatible.