CMS search-readiness evidence
WordPress can support strong SEO and AI-search foundations, but much of the implementation depends on themes, plugins, hosting, and configuration. This page separates what the platform itself documents from what still depends on the surrounding stack.
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documented answers
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unverified
“Unverified” means the research pass did not retrieve a first-party source that settled the check. It does not mean the platform lacks the capability.
Platform context
The dominant self-hosted CMS. Its SEO surface is largely plugin- and theme-mediated, so capability depends heavily on what is installed.
View first-party documentation →20-check evidence map
CMS-01
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "HTTP crawlability" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-02
WordPress publishes a default robots.txt that disallows /wp-admin/ and allows admin-ajax.php, load-scripts.php and load-styles.php.
A site can override this file, and the default does not cover the many plugin and theme installed SEO controls that determine real-world behaviour.
robots.txt output — WordPress Developer Resources →CMS-03
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "Indexability" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-04
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "Content rendering" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-05
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "Canonical control" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-06
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "XML sitemap" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-07
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "Redirect control" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-08
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "URL control" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-09
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "SEO metadata" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-10
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "Semantic HTML" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-11
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "Custom JSON-LD" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-12
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "Page-specific schema" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-13
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "Entity representation" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-14
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "Image semantics" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-15
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "Structured content" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-16
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "Internal linking" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-17
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "AI search crawler control" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-18
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "AI content extraction" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-19
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "Bot infrastructure access" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
CMS-20
Not verified: no first-party WordPress source confirming "Change verification" was retrieved and confirmed during this research pass. Neither capability nor absence of capability is being claimed.
WordPress core documentation retrieved for this pass covers its default robots.txt only; per-cell SEO capability depends on the installed theme and plugin set, which is site-specific.
Research boundary
A documented control does not prove that a site will rank in Google or be cited by an AI system. It shows where a relevant technical control exists and what the platform's own documentation says about it.
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