Citeroom: AEO and GEO for News, Works with Any SEO Plugin
Changelog
1.3.0
Faster under crawler load: the news sitemap and llms.txt are now briefly cached and the cache clears the moment you save a post, so fresh stories still reach AI immediately.
NewsArticle schema now includes wordCount.
New Advanced setting: Remove all Citeroom data when the plugin is deleted. Off by default, so your settings survive a delete and reinstall.
Clean uninstall support.
1.2.2
Fixed plugin updates not appearing on some sites by letting WordPress.org be the update source.
1.2.1
Added listing screenshots and captions.
1.2.0
Added a one-time, dismissible review invitation on Citeroom’s own admin screens, shown only after two weeks of use, with Leave a review, Maybe later, and Don’t show again.
1.1.0
The news sitemap and llms.txt are now served directly from the request, so they work even when rewrite rules were never refreshed on a site.
Citeroom now detects when another plugin (Yoast News, Rank Math) already serves a news sitemap and stands aside by default, with a new ownership setting if you want Citeroom to serve it instead.
The Status box warns when a real llms.txt or news-sitemap.xml file on the server is overriding Citeroom’s generated ones, which hosting tools sometimes create.
New Custom llms.txt content box, so you can add your own lines near the top of llms.txt.
Rewrite rules refresh automatically after every update.
1.0.3
The Status box now links to your live News sitemap and llms.txt, and add-ons can show their own status there.
1.0.2
Clearer plugin title and search tags. Added that Citeroom works alongside any existing SEO plugin. No functional changes.
1.0.1
Added the plugin menu icon and the Citeroom logo on the settings screen. Minor polish.
1.0.0
First public release. The complete free toolkit for news AEO and GEO: news schema engine with conflict detection, freshness manager with a Google News sitemap and honest updated dates, answer readiness check, and llms.txt with an AI crawler allowlist.
