--- title: "Every RankReady setting explained" url: https://hostmy.blog/docs/rankready/settings-reference/ date: 2026-08-24 modified: 2026-08-25 lang: en author: "Aditya Sharma" description: "A tab-by-tab reference to the RankReady admin: what each screen controls, and what turning it on actually changes." word_count: 806 --- # Every RankReady setting explained RankReady adds one menu item, **RankReady**, to wp-admin. Everything lives under five tabs. This page walks all five in order so you can find the screen that owns whatever you are trying to change. ![The RankReady Dashboard tab in wp-admin showing the plugin](https://hostmy.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/rr-dashboard-v2-scaled.png)The Dashboard tab is where you land after opening the RankReady menu. ## Dashboard URL: `tab=dashboard`. Your starting point and status overview. This tab is where you find the **Re-run the setup wizard** link, which reopens the three-step first-run wizard at any time. That wizard covers brand identity and the on-off state of the AI surfaces, so re-running it is a fast way to review those choices without visiting each subtab. ## AI Visibility URL: `tab=crawlers`. Note the slug: it is `crawlers`, not `visibility`. This is the largest tab and it owns every public file and endpoint RankReady serves. It has six subtabs. ![The AI Visibility tab in RankReady showing its subtabs for brand, robots, llms, markdown, WebMCP and OKF](https://hostmy.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/rr-ai-visibility-v2-scaled.png)AI Visibility groups every public endpoint into six subtabs. ### Brand Identity, sub=brand The single source of truth for who you are. Three fields: your site or brand name, a one-line summary capped at 160 characters that appears under the brand name in llms.txt, and an optional About field under 500 characters that accepts Markdown. These are the same fields as step 1 of the setup wizard. What you write here is reused in several places: `/llms.txt`, `/llms-full.txt`, `/robots.txt` and the AI Summary prompt. Fill it in once and every downstream file picks it up. ### Robots, sub=robots Controls the block RankReady manages inside your robots.txt, between the `# BEGIN RankReady` and `# END RankReady` markers. This is where you set per-crawler permissions across the 29 named AI crawlers, and where the [Content Signals](https://hostmy.blog/docs/rankready/content-signals-robots-txt/) directives `ai-train`, `search` and `ai-input` are configured. Nothing outside the markers is touched. ### llms.txt, sub=llms Owns two files. `/llms.txt` is an AI-readable index of the site. `/llms-full.txt` is the full corpus in one file. In the setup wizard, llms.txt is on by default and [llms-full.txt](https://hostmy.blog/docs/rankready/what-is-llms-full-txt/) is off by default, so if you have never seen the full file, that is why. ### Markdown, sub=markdown Controls the Markdown endpoints: `/{post-slug}.md` for any post, and `/index.md` for the homepage, each with YAML frontmatter. It also governs [content negotiation](https://hostmy.blog/docs/rankready/accept-markdown-negotiation/) on your canonical URLs, where `Accept: text/markdown` gets Markdown and an unsupported type gets a 406. ### WebMCP, sub=webmcp Controls the manifest at `/.well-known/mcp.json`. Off by default in the setup wizard. On nginx this path returns 403 before WordPress sees it, which is a server configuration matter and not something the setting can fix. ### OKF, sub=okf Controls the [Open Knowledge Format](https://hostmy.blog/docs/rankready/what-is-open-knowledge-format/) bundle at `/okf/`. On by default in the setup wizard. ## AI Content URL: `tab=content`. Everything that generates text with an AI provider. Two subtabs. ![The AI Content tab in RankReady with its Summary and FAQ subtabs](https://hostmy.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/rr-ai-content-v2-scaled.png)AI Content holds the two features that need an API key. ### Summary, sub=summary Settings for AI Summaries, including how and where a generated summary is displayed. Generation needs an API key for whichever provider you selected. Generation is unlimited, with no monthly caps. Summaries are stored in the `_rnrd_summary` post meta as `{"bullets":[...]}`. One behaviour worth knowing before you plan a rollout: Article schema builds its description from the generated summary and returns early when there is none. A post with Article schema switched on but no summary generated emits no Article JSON-LD at all. ### FAQ, sub=faq Settings for the FAQ Generator. It needs an API key, and it can optionally use DataForSEO to find real People Also Ask questions. DataForSEO receives the focus keyword only, never your article text. FAQs are stored in the `_rnrd_faq` post meta as a flat array of `{"question":...,"answer":...}` objects. ## Insights URL: `tab=insights`. Where you review what has happened rather than change what happens: AI crawler activity and referral data collected on your own site. Read the numbers for what they are. A crawler hit tells you your page was fetched. It does not tell you the page was quoted anywhere. ## Settings URL: `tab=settings`. Plugin-level configuration rather than per-feature behaviour. ![The RankReady Settings tab showing plugin-level configuration options](https://hostmy.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/rr-settings-v2-scaled.png)Settings holds your API keys and the data removal option. ### API keys Paste your own key for OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini or DeepSeek. Keys are stored in your site's own `wp_options` table, encrypted at rest. They are needed only for AI Summaries and the FAQ Generator. Everything else, llms.txt, the Markdown endpoints, crawler controls, Article schema, the Author Box, AI referral tracking, the freshness scanner and the [WebMCP manifest](https://hostmy.blog/docs/rankready/how-to-add-webmcp-wordpress/), works with no key at all. ### Delete all data on uninstall Option name `rnrd_delete_on_uninstall`. Defaults to **off**, which means deleting the plugin leaves your summaries, FAQs and settings intact. Deactivating never removes anything either. Only when you switch this on before deleting does uninstall remove RankReady's options, post meta, user meta and transients, drop the crawler log table, and remove the Cloudflare Cache Rule it created so nothing is left stranded on your Cloudflare zone. Some cards in the admin are marked Coming Soon. Those are not shipping features and their controls do nothing yet.