AI Experiments

0.3.0 – 2026-02-09

• Added: Content Summarization Experiment, allowing authors to generate and store AI-powered summaries directly in the post editor (#147).
• Added: Featured Image Generation Experiment, enabling AI-generated featured images from the editor sidebar with optional alt text and AI attribution metadata (#146).
• Added: Alt Text Generation Experiment, supporting images within Image blocks and Media Library workflows (#156).
• Added: “Experiments” and “Credentials” quick action links to the Installed Plugins screen for faster configuration (#206).
• Changed: Replace the global “Enable Experiments” checkbox with an auto-submitting enable/disable button to reduce friction when toggling experiments (#168).
• Fixed: Improve robustness of asset loading to handle missing or invalid built files and prevent admin and editor warnings (#175).
• Fixed: Add missing strict typing declarations in the Abilities Explorer to ensure consistency and correctness (#208).
• Developer: Streamline and clarify Contributor and Developer documentation to improve onboarding and reduce duplication (#169).
• Developer: Fix inline documentation issues, including missing @global tags, non-standard hook tags, and incomplete @return descriptions (#207, #210).
• Developer: Bump phpunit/phpunit from 9.6.31 to 9.6.33 as part of ongoing test and tooling maintenance (#209).
• Developer: Expand and align allowed open source licenses in dependency configuration to better match Gutenberg and ecosystem tooling (#212, #213, #214).

0.2.1 – 2026-01-26

• Added: Introduced a shared AI_Service layer to standardize provider access across experiments (#101).
• Changed: Documentation updates (#195).
• Fixed: Guarded against preg_replace() returning null to prevent content corruption in normalize_content() (#177).
• Security: Change our user permission checks to use edit_post instead of read_post (GHSA-mxf5-gp98-93wv).
• Security: Bumped diff from 4.0.2 to 4.0.4 (#196).
• Security: Bumped lodash-es from 4.17.22 to 4.17.23 (#198).
• Security: Bumped lodash from 4.17.21 to 4.17.23 (#199).

0.2.0 – 2026-01-20

• Added: Core excerpt generation support for AI-powered summaries, including a new Excerpt Generation Experiment with editor UI (#96, #143).
• Added: Abilities Explorer — a new admin screen to view and interact with registered AI abilities in the plugin (#63).
• Added: Introduce foundational backend support for Content Summarization and Image Generation experiments (API-only; no UI yet) (#134, #136).
• Added: Improve plugin documentation and onboarding with expanded WP.org readme content (#135).
• Added: Add Playground preview support to build and PR workflows using the official WordPress action (#144).
• Changed: Rely on the Abilities API bundled with WordPress 6.9 and remove the previously bundled dependency (minimum WP version updated) (#107).
• Changed: Reorganize Playground blueprints and update demo paths to align with WordPress.org conventions (#137).
• Changed: Improve and clarify plugin documentation, descriptions, screenshots, and in-context messaging (#69, #158, #161, #162, #164).
• Changed: Update and align runtime and development dependencies, including preact, qs, express, and React overrides (#165, #166, #171).
• Changed: Replace custom Plugin Check setup with the official GitHub workflow for more reliable enforcement (#139).
• Fixed: Resolve UI and messaging issues on the AI Experiments settings screen (#130, #132).
• Fixed: Ensure AI Experiments are visible even when no credentials are configured (#173).
• Fixed: Fix Plugin Check, linting, and CI failures introduced by updated tooling and workflows (#150, #163, #167, #176).
• Developer: Cleanup and standardize scaffold, linting, TypeScript, and CI configuration to better align with WordPress Coding Standards (#172).

0.1.1 – 2025-12-01

• Added: Link to the plugin settings screen from the plugin list table (#98).
• Added: WordPress Playground live preview integration (#85).
• Added: RTL language support and inlining for performance (#113).
• Changed: Updated namespace to ai_experiments (#111).
• Changed: Bumped WP AI Client from dev-trunk to 0.2.0 (#118, #122, #125).
• Removed: Valid AI credentials check from the Experiment is_enabled check (#120).
• Removed: Example Experiment registration (#121).
• Fixed: Bug in asset loader causing missing dependencies (#113).
• Security: Bumped js-yaml from 3.14.1 to 3.14.2 (#105).

0.1.0 – 2025-11-26

First public release of the AI Experiments plugin, introducing a framework for exploring experimental AI-powered features in WordPress. 🎉

• Added: Experiment registry and loader system for managing AI features
• Added: Abstract experiment base class for consistent feature development
• Added: Experiment: Title Generation
• Added: Basic admin settings screen with toggle support
• Added: Initial integration with WP AI Client SDK and Abilities API
• Added: Utilities Ability for common AI tasks and testing