Three things in that headline have happened to real WordPress operators in the last 18 months. We built Cirvgreen so they wouldn't happen to you. Below — what we won't do, what's in the box, and the proof that backs it.
Three explicit promises. Each one names the competitor pattern we refuse to copy, and each one is testable. If we ever break one, you'll find out before we do.
Nine features, five vendors. Where competitors do something well, we mark them yes. Where we do something they don't, we mark ourselves. This table is the version we'd want to read if we were the buyer.
| Feature | Cirvgreen | Yoast | RankMath | AccessiBe | Cookiebot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-citable JSON-LD by default (CitableSource + AIReadable) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Admin nag-bars in default install | None | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes |
| Phone-home telemetry by default | Off | Opt-out | Opt-out | On | On |
| Accessibility approach | Theme-level fixes | N/A | N/A | Overlay widget | N/A |
| Pricing model | Flat | Flat | Flat | Per domain tier | Per page |
| Open-source npm library | EngramX (Apache 2.0) | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Public CHANGELOG | Weekly | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| WordPress.org-reviewed | All 4 plugins | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Google Consent Mode v2 built-in | ✓ (Cirv Comply) | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes |
One honest note: Cirv Pulse doesn't ship a free CDN, and RankMath's keyword tracking covers a wider corpus than ours. We're not better at everything. We're better at the things in the table above.
A promise on a website is a slogan. A promise that's already in your network tab is a feature. Here are the five we've shipped — verifiable in less than five minutes each.
Each page emits a CitableSource and AIReadable block so ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can quote you accurately. View source on this page, or see the badge highlighted on the EngramX sub-page. No competitor in the table above ships this by default.
Every Cirv plugin is screened against the Wordfence security pattern list before release. The default install is silent — no upsell modals on activation, no phone-home request inside wp-admin. Verify it in the network tab on any test site.
A token-compression context library for AI coding agents. Cuts 53–89% of per-file context tokens on an 87-file reference codebase — two files got worse, caveat shown. Runs inside Claude Code, Cursor and Cline. Install in one line, verify on your own repo. View the EngramX page →
Every plugin and tool has a CHANGELOG you can read without an account. We ship most weeks, usually Sundays. Read the latest notes → for what landed this week and why.
Open the JSON-LD on this page. Nicholas Ashkar is named as the author in CitableSource — not hidden behind a holding company or a "we" pronoun. If something breaks, the buck stops at a real person you can email.
We don't enjoy citing competitor lawsuits. We do it because if you're buying in this category, the regulatory record is part of due diligence — and most pricing pages won't surface it.
The FTC took action against AccessiBe in May 2025 for misleading claims about its automated accessibility overlay. UsableNet's 2024 lawsuit data found that 25% of digital accessibility lawsuits targeted sites which had an overlay widget installed — the widget didn't prevent the suit, in many cases it became part of the evidence.
The cookie-consent category has its own pattern: per-page metering on Cookiebot, per-domain tier-jumps on Iubenda, and consent banners that fail GDPR audits because they default to "accept all". Our reading of the audit reports is that flat-priced, server-side consent with Google Consent Mode v2 wired up by default is the safer bet — which is what Cirv Comply ships.
We mention this so you can verify, not to score points. If you're auditing the WordPress-plugin market, check the regulatory record before you check the feature list.
Every plugin has a free tier on WordPress.org. Pro from $9/mo. 30-day refund. No card required for trials, no email wall on the free tools.