citelayer® – AI SEO & Visibility | llms.txt, Bot Analytics, Schema.org

1.5.4

• IMPROVEMENT: Schema Types settings now show blur overlay with direct link to SEO plugin when in Enhancement Mode
• NEW: Product Feed now supports Easy Digital Downloads (simple + variable pricing)
• FIX: EDD addon Settings button on license page linked to non-existent page
• NEW: Content-Signal HTTP header now sent on all frontend pages (not just Markdown endpoint)

1.5.3

• FIX: WooCommerce hidden products (visibility=hidden) now excluded from llms.txt
• FIX: WooCommerce hidden products now excluded from product feed XML

1.5.2

• FIX: llms.txt cache not invalidated when settings are changed (exclude URLs, description, title, etc.)
• FIX: Wildcard URL exclude patterns (e.g. /shop/*) never matched due to preg_quote escape bug
• FIX: Plain path exclude patterns (e.g. /warenkorb) only checked inside http-URL branch due to missing brace

1.5.1

• IMPROVEMENT: AI Score expanded from 7 to 11 checks — 4 new content-quality checks
• NEW: Opening Summary check (first paragraph 30–80 words)
• NEW: Heading Structure check (≥2 H2 + ≥1 H3)
• NEW: Internal Linking check (≥2 internal links)
• NEW: FAQ Section detection (FAQ blocks, headings, and Q&A patterns)
• Rebalanced check weights for better signal distribution

1.5.0

• NEW: Per-Page AI Visibility Score — editor metabox shows 0–100 score with 7 AI readiness checks
• NEW: Content Freshness Signals — Last-Modified header + article:modified_time OG meta (SEO-plugin aware)
• IMPROVEMENT: Scanner now differentiates AI Training Bots (blocking = good) from AI Search Bots (blocking = bad)
• IMPROVEMENT: Bot list expanded to 86 bots (+PhindBot, img2dataset, KangarooBot, Sidetrade, webz.io, Bingbot-AI)
• IMPROVEMENT: Bot Analytics dashboard shows category badges (AI Training, AI Search, AI Agent, AI Enterprise)

1.4.3

• IMPROVEMENT: Keyword-optimized plugin display name for better wp.org discoverability
• Updated plugin name to “citelayer® – AI SEO & Visibility | llms.txt, Bot Analytics, Schema.org”

1.4.2

• FIX: Remaining PHPCS violations — file-level disables for template views and DB query files
• FIX: Function call indentation in Compatibility.php
• FIX: Inline phpcs:ignore for long translation strings

1.4.1

• FIX: Resolved all PHPCS WordPress Coding Standards violations
• FIX: Short ternary operators replaced with explicit ternaries (ProductFeed, ProductFeedCheck, LLMS_TXT)
• FIX: Yoda conditions, indentation, embedded PHP tag formatting
• FIX: Trailing whitespace and line length violations
• IMPROVEMENT: Added phpcs:disable/enable blocks for mixed PHP/HTML template methods

1.4.0

• NEW: AI Referral Tracking — track visitors arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, You.com, Phind, Kagi, and Andi
• NEW: “AI Referrals” dashboard tab with stat cards (Visits from AI, Top Source, Trend %), trend chart, top sources breakdown, and paginated referral log
• NEW: Lightweight frontend tracking via sendBeacon — zero impact on page load performance
• NEW: Rate-limited REST endpoint with origin validation and IP hashing (GDPR/DSGVO compliant)
• NEW: llms.txt now includes Markdown URLs for each page, helping LLMs discover optimized content versions
• NEW: 90-day auto-cleanup for referral data (same as bot analytics)
• IMPROVEMENT: SVG trend chart now supports custom colors (reusable across tabs)
• 100% local — all referral data stored in your WordPress database, no external services

1.3.5

• NEW: Bot Analytics — DB-backed AI bot visit tracking with real-time dashboard
• NEW: Expanded bot database from 17 to 62 AI/LLM bots (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Cohere, HuggingFace, and more)
• NEW: Bot categories (Confirmed AI, AI Assistant, AI Search, AI Enterprise, Possible AI)
• NEW: Admin dashboard with stat cards (7d/30d/90d), SVG trend chart, and top bots visualization
• NEW: AI Blind Spots — discover pages invisible to AI bots with AI Discovery Score (0-100)
• NEW: CSV export for bot visit logs with date/bot/path filtering
• NEW: Cache plugin detection (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, W3TC, WP Super Cache) with setup guides
• NEW: 90-day auto-cleanup to prevent database bloat
• FIX: Settings link on plugins page now points to correct dashboard URL
• IMPROVEMENT: Clean uninstall — removes DB table, options, and transients on plugin deletion
• 100% local — no external accounts or API calls needed

1.3.4

• FIX: AI Crawler Detection now works in all compatibility modes (including Rank Math enhance mode)
• FIX: Per-post exclude meta box only shown when citelayer generates llms.txt
• PERF: Batch noindex queries (N per-post queries → 3-4 bulk queries)
• PERF: Capped posts at 500/type and products at 1000 (filterable)
• PERF: Reduced Scanner HTTP timeouts from 10-15s to 5s

1.3.3

• NEW: AI Crawler Detection — see which AI bots visit your llms.txt (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and 14 more)
• NEW: in HTML head for AI discoverability
• NEW: Per-post exclude toggle — exclude individual pages from llms.txt via meta box
• NEW: Custom title and description overrides for llms.txt header
• NEW: Max words cap for llms-full.txt (default 500, configurable 50–10.000)
• NEW: Taxonomy inclusion in llms-full.txt (categories, tags, custom taxonomies)
• NEW: Meta inclusion in llms-full.txt (published/modified dates, URL, WooCommerce SKU + price)
• Privacy-first: All data stored locally, no external server calls

1.3.2

• NEW: llms-full.txt — full content export for deep AI understanding
• NEW: Configurable post types for llms.txt (pages, posts, products, CPTs)
• NEW: SEO noindex respect (Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, AIOSEO)
• NEW: URL exclude patterns with wildcard support
• Improved: Post type grouping with section headers
• Improved: Proper > description blockquote per llmstxt.org spec
• Improved: Admin page with post type selection and pattern examples

1.3.1

• NEW: XML Product Feed Generator — OpenAI Commerce Protocol compatible
• Serves product feed at /product-feed.xml
• Supports simple, variable, and external products with variations
• GTIN/EAN auto-detection from common meta fields
• WP-Cron scheduled regeneration (hourly/daily/weekly)
• Transient-based caching with configurable TTL
• New admin page: citelayer → Product Feed
• Scanner: added Product Feed validation check

1.3.0

• NEW: AI Readiness Scanner — comprehensive site audit for AI visibility
• 7 automated checks: Schema.org, robots.txt (8 AI bots + Cloudflare), llms.txt, Content-Signal headers
• WooCommerce checks: Product descriptions, images, stock status
• Visual readiness score dashboard (0-100)
• Async scanning via REST API
• New admin page: citelayer → AI Scanner

1.2.2

• Rewritten plugin description — user-centric, benefit-driven (AI Visibility, GEO, AEO)
• Updated FAQ in plain language
• Optimized tags for WordPress.org discoverability
• Updated plugin banner images

1.2.1

• Fixed WordPress.org deploy trigger (SVN deploy now runs in same workflow as auto-tag)
• Added manual deploy fallback with dry-run support

1.2.0

• Added automated WordPress.org SVN deploy workflow (deploy on GitHub Release)
• Added plugin directory assets (icons, banners)
• Added .distignore for clean SVN deployments
• Added readme/assets update workflow (update WordPress.org without new release)
• Streamlined auto-tag workflow (ZIP build now handled by deploy action)

1.1.9

• Re-included composer.json in distribution ZIP (required when vendor/ is present)

1.1.8

• Removed vendor CLI binaries (bin/html-to-markdown) from release ZIP
• Excluded composer.json from distribution
• Improved forbidden file detection in build workflow

1.1.7

• Lowered PHP requirement from 8.1 to 7.4 (code + vendor deps confirmed compatible)
• Fixed deploy workflow: .gitattributes and README.md now excluded from production
• Added PHP 7.4 to CI syntax check matrix

1.1.6

• Converted inline scripts to wp_add_inline_script() for WP Codex compliance
• Extracted inline styles to external CSS files with wp_enqueue_style()
• Updated contributor and Author URI metadata

1.1.5

• Fix fatal error: rebuild vendor with composer –no-dev for release ZIP

1.1.4

• Exclude dev dependencies from release ZIP (phpstan, phpcs, etc.)

1.1.3

• Plugin name fix

1.1.1

• Respecting WP / WordPress trade mark

1.1.0

• Code Quality: PHPCS + PHPStan Audit — alle Violations behoben (PHPCS 260→1, PHPStan 649→0)
• Tooling: phpcs.xml.dist, phpstan.neon, Composer Scripts (lint, fix, analyse)
• CI: Strikte PHPCS- und PHPStan-Jobs (kein continue-on-error mehr)
• Infrastructure: Pre-Commit-Hook für automatisches Code-Formatting
• Fix: Schema.php — post_author Type-Cast für get_the_author_meta()

1.0.0

• Production release
• Version synchronization (header, constant, readme.txt)
• Security: Admin email no longer exposed in llms.txt by default
• UCP Discovery: Dynamic platform detection (WordPress vs WooCommerce)
• WebMCP: Removed non-implemented endpoint references
• WebMCP: Fixed option check consistency
• Added PHPCS configuration (WordPress Coding Standards)
• Added PHPStan Level 6 configuration
• Comprehensive CI pipeline (syntax, PHPCS, PHPStan, integrity checks)
• Removed development artifacts from repository

0.3.1

• Compatibility V3.1: Multi-Family Safeguard — Conflict State detection
• Admin: Conflict State banner on all admin pages
• llms.txt: 503 response in Conflict State
• Schema: No output in Conflict State
• WebMCP context.json discovery endpoint

0.3.0

• Compatibility Layer V3: Enhance-Fix
• serve_llms_txt() uses should_register_own_route() to prevent double output
• Yoast Fallback: Citelayer takes over when Yoast has no physical file
• State-Reset on plugin deactivation
• Improved AIOSEO detection (defined + class_exists checks)

0.2.0

• Composer Support: league/html-to-markdown integration
• PSR-4 Autoloading with SPL fallback
• Feature-Detection on module level (Rank Math llms.txt, Yoast llms.txt)
• All classes refactored to CitelayerPlugin namespace
• File structure: includes/ → src/

0.1.0

• Initial release
• llms.txt generation with WooCommerce awareness
• Schema.org JSON-LD (Organization, WebSite, Article, Product)
• UCP Discovery endpoint
• Markdown for Agents with Content Negotiation
• Content-Signal header configuration
• Settings page in WordPress admin