GT – AI SEO/GEO/AEO Optimizer

1.2.15

• Added: Free crawl optimization controls for metadata cleanup, feed cleanup, internal search protection, bot directives, and URL parameter cleanup.
• Improved: Breadcrumb settings now support automatic before-content placement, manual shortcode placement with [gatetouch_breadcrumbs], and per-post breadcrumb controls.
• Improved: Social image fields automatically fall back to the featured image when no custom social image is selected.
• Improved: Post editor analysis now checks the SEO title as well as the WordPress post title for focus keyword scoring and uses current editor content more reliably.

1.2.14

• Release: Updated the public plugin name, admin menu label, description, and WordPress.org directory assets.

1.2.13

• Fix: Corrected the core class autoloader so plugin activation and boot callbacks load reliably.

1.2.12

• Release: Changed the text domain from rankora-ai-seo to gatetouch-ai-seo.

1.2.11

• Release: Rebuilt the clean upload package without Git metadata or non-shipping files.

1.2.10

• Release: Changed the plugin brand name and renamed the main plugin file for the current package.

1.2.9

• Release: Updated plugin metadata and rebuilt the clean WordPress.org upload package.

1.2.8

• Release: Built a clean upload package excluding development files, Git metadata, nested archives, logs, and macOS .DS_Store files.

1.2.7

• Fix: Restored Website Audit Deep Analysis click handling with explicit script loading and visible button states.
• Fix: Added robots.txt tab-specific save feedback and preserved the active robots tab after saving.
• Fix: Aligned legacy robots.txt AI-bot blocking saves with the live robots.txt generator option keys.

1.2.5

• UI: Replaced emoji nav-tab icons with inline Tabler line icons (self-hosted SVG, no CDN dependency)
• UI: Replaced emoji AI provider labels with branded inline SVG logos (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini) in settings and setup wizard
• UI: Added flex-align and gap CSS to nav tabs for proper icon + text layout

1.2.4

• Security: Fixed custom header/body/footer script output to use wp_kses() with allowed script/noscript/style tags instead of wp_kses_post() (which incorrectly stripped tags)
• Security: Wrapped all ternary CSS class and title attribute strings with esc_attr() in admin list table columns
• Code: Added phpcs:ignore annotations to log-directory protection files written to uploads directory

1.2.3

• Security: Sanitized .htaccess editor input and removed root-level backup file creation
• Security: Hardened JSON-LD output with safe WordPress script helpers and default wp_json_encode() escaping
• Security: Escaped saved custom header, body, and footer markup before frontend output
• Fix: Removed inactive inline admin script and style blocks from distributable PHP templates

1.2.2

• Fix: Added missing robots.txt rewrite registration method to prevent activation errors
• Fix: Registered robots.txt and security.txt rewrite rules consistently during activation and init
• Fix: Security.txt now supports rewrite-based requests through a dedicated GateTouch query var

1.2.1

• Security: Escaped GSC verification meta tag when pasted as full HTML tag
• Security: Custom Schema JSON-LD now decoded and re-encoded with wp_json_encode() before output
• Security: Wildcard redirect patterns now use preg_quote() to prevent regex injection
• Security: 404 log now sanitizes HTTP_REFERER, HTTP_USER_AGENT, and REMOTE_ADDR before DB insert
• Security: DB errors no longer leaked to AJAX responses; logged server-side only
• i18n: All user-facing strings wrapped in translation functions for the WordPress.org translation system
• i18n: Uses the correct gatetouch-ai-seo text domain
• Multisite: Activation now provisions all existing sites on network-activation
• Multisite: New sites added to network automatically provisioned via wpmu_new_blog hook
• Multisite: Uninstall now loops all network sites to clean tables and options
• Fix: GATETOUCH_VERSION constant now matches plugin header (1.2.1)
• Fix: Uninstall.php now drops all custom tables and clears all cron hooks
• Fix: Scratch directory debug scripts now use DIR-relative paths instead of hardcoded Windows paths

1.2.0

• Added: Multi-AI provider support — OpenAI (GPT-4o), Anthropic (Claude 3.5), Google Gemini
• Added: AEO Readiness Score — measure content quality for AI answer engines
• Added: llms.txt and llms-full.txt generator for AI crawler visibility
• Added: Bulk AI Optimizer for mass meta tag generation across entire site
• Added: Content AI Generator with keyword strategy, outline, and content briefs
• Added: AI Image Alt Text generator using Vision AI (OpenAI GPT-4o Vision)
• Added: Competitor Analysis — fetch and audit competitor SEO data
• Added: Headline Analyzer with AI scoring (sentiment, readability, word balance)
• Added: Social AI — platform-specific captions for LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Instagram
• Added: Security.txt generator (RFC 9116 compliant)
• Added: AES-256-CBC encryption for all stored API keys with auto-migration
• Removed: License registration requirements from bundled AI workflows
• Added: Site Audit Center with crawl-based issue detection
• Added: SEO Reporting with PDF/HTML export
• Added: Link Assistant for internal linking suggestions
• Added: Redirect Manager (301/302/307/410) with CSV import/export
• Added: Webmaster verification and optional analytics tag settings
• Added: Local SEO schema controls for LocalBusiness markup
• Added: WordPress Hardening panel — disable XML-RPC, remove WP version, security headers, clean head
• Added: Database Optimization — one-click cleanup of revisions, transients, spam, and bloat
• Added: IndexNow notifications for supported search engines
• Added: Bulk Media Meta Manager — audit and fix missing alt text across the Media Library
• Added: One-Click Fix Engine — auto-fix missing meta, alt text, schema, and sitemap issues
• Added: Data Migration — import from Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress
• Added: Automation Engine — auto-linker, smart redirects, and automatic schema assignment
• Fixed: Sitemap showing “Not Active” when enabled (tolerant value parsing for ‘yes’/’1’)
• Fixed: twitter:description meta tag missing from page head output
• Fixed: noindex/nofollow flags not emitted as robots meta tags on frontend
• Fixed: Canonical URL tag missing from frontend output
• Fixed: AI settings page saving API keys without encryption
• Fixed: Admin notices not displaying with proper styled design
• Fixed: File permissions not validated in settings
• Improved: Real-time SEO analyzer — 15 checks with weighted scoring
• Improved: Schema engine — 15+ schema types with smart AI detection
• Improved: Sitemap generator — image, RSS, index, and chunked sitemaps

1.1.0

• Added: Open Graph and Twitter Card meta tags with smart image fallback
• Added: Breadcrumbs with JSON-LD BreadcrumbList schema
• Added: Robots.txt visual editor with AI-bot blocking
• Added: Webmaster tools verification (Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, Pinterest)
• Added: RSS content protection with copyright footer
• Improved: Admin UI with tabbed settings panels and responsive layout

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Meta title and description management with live SERP preview
• XML sitemap generation
• JSON-LD schema markup — Article, Organization, WebSite
• 15-point on-page SEO analysis engine