Kennedy Site Scout

Changelog

3.0.0

  • NEW: Site Authority section in llms.txt / llms-full.txt — configurable publisher name, credentials, location, founded year, expertise areas, and bio
  • NEW: Rich per-item E-E-A-T metadata — author credentials (Yoast wpseo_jobtitle / user meta), author bio (WP / Yoast / Rank Math fallback chain), word count, and reading time (Pro)
  • NEW: Custom Instructions textarea — inject an “Instructions for AI Systems” section into your LLM files
  • NEW: Smart <!–more–> tag-aware content truncation for cleaner excerpt boundaries
  • NEW: Featured Content support (Pro) — pin posts with _kss_featured meta to top of LLM files; ⭐ badge in llms.txt and shortcode output
  • NEW: Top Crawled Pages panel in dashboard widget (Pro) — shows the 5 most AI-crawled URLs with hit counts
  • NEW: Dismissible admin notice with suggested robots.txt AI-bot directives and llms-sitemap.xml reference
  • NEW: Shortcode featured=”only” attribute (Pro) to display only featured content items
  • NEW: Author E-E-A-T line in shortcode card output (name + credentials)
  • NEW: URL frequency map stored for Top Crawled Pages (auto-pruned to 500 entries)
  • NEW: Published date field added alongside Modified date in LLM files
  • IMPROVED: Improved markdown structure following llms.txt.org spec (explicit — separators, cleaner section hierarchy)
  • IMPROVED: admin_url( ‘admin-ajax.php’ ) passed via wp_localize_script for safer AJAX calls
  • IMPROVED: Save authority settings button triggers automatic regeneration
  • IMPROVED: Featured items get priority 1.0 in llms-sitemap.xml (Pro)
  • FIXED: AJAX nonce field name normalized to kennedy_scout_nonce consistently across PHP and JS
  • Backward compatible with all v2.x settings

2.1.0

  • Moved admin CSS and JS to external enqueued files (admin.css, admin.js) for WP.org compliance
  • Added External Services documentation to readme.txt
  • Used wp_localize_script for all translatable JS strings

2.0.0

  • BUG FIX: AI crawlers now logged on ALL front-end page requests, not just LLM file hits
  • Added 20+ new bot signatures (PerplexityBot, Anthropic-AI, Meta ExternalAgent, Cohere AI, ByteSpider, AmazonBot, Mistral AI, HuggingFaceBot, and more)
  • Refactored into separate class files
  • Added Pro tier with license activation/deactivation
  • CSV export of crawler logs (Pro)
  • Full i18n / translation-ready

1.0.4

  • Initial release as AI Site Scout

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Version:
3.0.0
Last Updated
May 10, 2026
Active Installs
20
Requires
WordPress 6.0
Tested Up To
WordPress 6.9.4
Requires PHP
7.4

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