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ParseLess

Name: ParseLess
Author: phalkmin

Serve your posts as Markdown to AI crawlers and CLI tools — typically 95%+ less bandwidth, ~60–80% fewer DB queries, no theme bloat.

ParseLess ranks #19,417 among WordPress.org plugins with 60+ active installations, and was last updated Sep 8, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7.0.6 (Current: 7.1.2)

v0.8.0 Current Version v0.8.0

Updated 2 weeks ago Last Update on 08 Sep, 2026

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Version: 0.8.0
Last Updated: Sep 08, 2026
Requires WP: 6.8+
Tested Up To: 7.0.6
PHP Version: 8.2 or higher
Author: phalkmin

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about ParseLess

Append ?format=md to any post URL, e.g. https://example.com/my-post/?format=md. The same URL works from curl, wget, or any CLI tool you want to pipe into.

No. Markdown is only served when the request matches a known AI bot User-Agent or explicitly includes ?format=md. Browsers, Google's regular search crawler, and every other visitor receive your normal WordPress HTML. The Markdown endpoint also sends X-Robots-Tag: noindex so it never competes with your HTML pages in traditional search.

GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, CCBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, Meta-ExternalAgent, cohere-ai. You can extend, replace, or restrict this list in the settings or via the md4ai_bot_list filter.

No — the opposite. ParseLess makes your content easier for AI bots to ingest, so you keep the AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) benefit of being cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and AI Overviews. It just delivers that content in a format that's cheap for both you and them.

It depends on your theme and what's hitting you. A real measurement on a content-rich page: response size dropped from 79 KB to 4 KB (95% smaller, 20x reduction) and TTFB from 251 ms to 115 ms. Database queries typically drop ~60–80% per request — the WordPress bootstrap still runs; only the theme/widget/builder rendering is skipped. Page-builder sites (Elementor, Divi) see the largest savings because their HTML payloads are the heaviest. The conversion is cached, so repeated bot hits on the same post are nearly free.

ParseLess runs the_content filter before conversion, so anything those builders render into the post content gets captured and converted. Layout-only wrappers and design scaffolding are stripped out, leaving the actual text, headings, lists, tables, images, and links.

Optionally, yes. Enable Include frontmatter in the settings to prepend a YAML block with title, URL, author, date, categories, tags, and excerpt.

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