Fixed: updating an article whose WordPress post was deleted (for example after restoring the site from a backup) no longer fails with a generic error — the plugin now reports the missing post clearly, and Seonix automatically re-publishes the article as a fresh post.
2.12.9
Housekeeping: bundled editor and admin assets are cache-busted by their file modification time, so updated styles and scripts reach the browser reliably without needing a plugin version bump.
2.12.8
Improved: the Search appearance previews now match the real search result — mobile is a card with a thumbnail next to the description, desktop is a plain full-width result with a larger title and the breadcrumb URL.
Fixed: the SEO title and meta description are editable on every site again (Seonix keeps its own copy and syncs it to any active SEO plugin and to your dashboard).
Fixed: the length meter is green across the whole good range — a 60/60 title now reads green, not amber; it only turns amber when too short and red when it would be clipped.
2.12.7
Fixed: the Google preview in Search appearance now gives the title the full width (no thumbnail squeezing it) so it no longer wraps to a clipped column, and reads cleanly on both mobile and desktop.
2.12.6
Improved: when an SEO plugin (Yoast, Rank Math, …) owns the SEO title and meta description, the Search appearance preview now updates live as you edit them there, instead of only after a reload.
2.12.5
Added: a “Search appearance” section in the editor panel — a live Google and social preview of the page with its SEO title and meta description. On sites with no SEO plugin the fields are editable here and Seonix syncs them to any SEO plugin you add and to your Seonix dashboard; when Yoast, Rank Math or another SEO plugin is active their values are shown.
Added: each link in the Links section now has edit, remove and open-in-a-new-tab actions on hover.
2.12.4
Changed: the Seonix icon in the editor toolbar is a green / amber / red status dot again (the exact issue count stays in the Page issues section, where it belongs).
Changed: the Links section no longer lists popup and button triggers (Popup Maker “#popmake-…”, bare “#”) — only real links a visitor can follow.
Added: click a link in the panel to jump straight to it in the article; a hover icon opens it in a new tab.
2.12.3
Changed: the Seonix icon in the editor toolbar now shows the number of open issues on the page — a green tick when there are none — coloured by severity, so a page’s status is readable at a glance without opening the panel.
Added: page issues whose fix lives in the Redirects manager now show a one-click “Open redirect manager” button right inside the editor panel.
2.12.2
Improved: redirects now land in ONE hop. Targets are stored and served in your site’s canonical form (trailing slash follows your permalink settings), and a redirect whose target is itself redirected is followed to its final destination before responding — visitors and crawlers get a single 301 instead of a chain of two or three. Existing rules are healed automatically, no editing needed.
Fixed: redirect chains that loop back on themselves are detected and the page is served instead of bouncing the browser.
2.12.1
Fixed: Site Health now shows exactly the same numbers as your Seonix dashboard — the same overall and per-pillar scores and the same Active / Fixed / Came back counts. Seonix computes them once and the plugin displays them as-is, so the two screens can never disagree again.
Changed: opening the dashboard re-syncs from Seonix when the local copy is older than 5 hours (was 24). The Refresh button still forces an immediate sync.
2.12.0
Added: a “Links” section in the Seonix panel on the post editor. See the internal and external links in your article at a glance, with counts and anchor text, in both the block editor and the classic editor.
2.11.3
Fixed: the “Key takeaways” box at the top of Seonix articles now takes its look from your site — your theme’s fonts and colours with a light tint of your brand colour — instead of bringing its own palette. Previously it could also flip to a dark box on light sites when a visitor’s device preferred dark mode.
Fixed: theme stylesheets could distort the box — an oversized uppercase heading, bullet markers overlapping the text, or extra list indentation. It now renders consistently across themes.
Improved: the broken-link fix now leaves page-builder content (Elementor, Divi, WPBakery and similar) alone instead of editing markup those builders may regenerate, and og:url follows the page’s real canonical URL.
Improved: the 404 log folds scanner and bot probes (requests like /.env or /xmlrpc.php that never existed on your site) into a collapsed “Scanner & bot noise” section with a one-click Dismiss all, so real broken links stay visible.
2.11.2
New: a Seonix column in the post and page list tables, and the editor score is cached until the text changes.
2.11.1
New: redirects live in the Seonix admin shell, with a 404 log, CSV import/export, and accurate Site Health counts.
New: a score badge in the editor and the Seonix mark in the toolbar entry.
2.11.0
New: a focus keyphrase field in the editor for sites without a separate SEO plugin — set the phrase a page should rank for and the Seonix panel scores the text against it. Sites that already have an SEO plugin keep using that plugin’s field, as before.
New: the plugin now tells your Seonix dashboard which version it is running, so the Integrations page shows the installed version for every connected site and points out when a newer one is available.
The version travels on the calls the plugin already makes to Seonix — no extra requests, nothing about your content, and nothing sent anywhere else.
Updates themselves are unchanged: WordPress installs them from the plugin directory as it always has.
2.10.0
New: rename a published post and the old link keeps working — Seonix records the redirect for you, as a real rule you can see and edit. Trash a post and its URL stops pretending: a child page points at its parent, anything else returns “410 Gone” so search engines drop it quickly instead of retrying a dead link for months.
New: pattern redirects. One rule can move a whole section — ^/blog/(d+)/?$ → /archiv/$1 covers every post id at once.
New: 307, 308 and 410 alongside 301 and 302. The 307/308 pair keeps the request method intact, which matters for form endpoints; 410 needs no target at all.
New: redirects screen rebuilt — add rules, filter by source or status, search paths, and apply bulk enable/disable/delete. Each rule shows its hit count and when it was last used, so you can tell a rule that still earns its place from one that can go.
Improved: a rule pointing at a page you later removed now sends visitors to that page, which answers “gone” — instead of sending them nowhere.
2.9.0
New: Seonix in the toolbar. Every page now carries its own standing in the admin bar — SEO score, readability score, and how many issues the last scan found on it — on the live site as well as in wp-admin, so you can see where a page stands without opening the editor.
The scores shown are those of the saved version, the one your visitors actually get: typing in the editor updates the panel live, but the toolbar only changes once you save.
2.8.1
Fix: the editor panel’s live SEO and readability scores failed with a server error in 2.8.0 — the scoring class shipped in the package but was never loaded. Scores work again; nothing else was affected.
2.8.0
New: live SEO and readability scores while you write. The Seonix panel in the editor sidebar now scores the text you have in front of you — not the last saved version — and updates as you type, so you can fix things before publishing instead of after.
New: each score opens into the checks behind it, so the number always comes with a reason: what passed, what didn’t, and what to change.
Improved: the panel reads your focus keyphrase and meta description as they are right now, straight from the editor, so the score reflects work you can see on screen even before you save.
Note: scoring is done by the Seonix engine, so the panel needs the site connected to a Seonix project. Nothing is sent anywhere until you type, and WordPress — not your browser — makes the call.
2.7.0
New: built-in redirect manager. Redirects created by Seonix’s one-click SEO fixes are now served by this plugin directly — no separate redirect plugin required (fixes applied by older versions stay reversible).
New: Redirects screen in wp-admin (Seonix → Redirects) — every rule with its hit count, plus add your own 301/302 redirects, disable or delete them.
New: redirects managed in the Seonix dashboard sync into the plugin over its REST API. The plugin is the source of truth for what’s live: edit or delete a rule here and the dashboard adopts that on the next sync instead of overwriting you.
Improved: redirect matching ignores trailing slashes and letter case, carries the original query string over to the target, and never loops — self-redirects and two-rule cycles are detected and skipped, and chained rules are flattened to their final target in a single hop.
New: one-click fix for Chrome’s new “Agentic Browsing” audit. Clickable cards that are only a link overlay, and dropdowns whose only cue is their first option, reach AI agents and screen readers with no readable name — Lighthouse fails the page for it. Seonix names them from the page itself: a card’s heading where the link can be matched to it unambiguously, an image’s alt text, or the link’s own destination. Nothing visible on the page changes, and switching the fix off removes every added name.
New: your contact and search forms can describe themselves to AI browsing agents using the emerging WebMCP markup, so an assistant can tell what a form does and what each field expects. Markup only — no JavaScript is added to your pages, and browsers without WebMCP support simply ignore it.
2.6.0
New: SEO titles and meta descriptions written by Seonix now land inside whichever SEO plugin your site runs, using each plugin’s own native storage — so you keep editing them in the tools you already use.
New: no SEO plugin? Seonix now renders the SEO title, meta description, and social-share tags itself (Auto mode — it steps aside automatically the moment you activate an SEO plugin, and copies everything you had into it).
New: edits you make to SEO titles/descriptions in your SEO plugin sync back to the Seonix dashboard, with a note showing the change came from WordPress.
New: structured data (JSON-LD) received from Seonix can include FAQ and HowTo blocks; your SEO plugin’s sitemap cache is refreshed right after each publish.
Improved: one-click SEO fixes for titles and descriptions now work on sites without any SEO plugin installed.
2.5.42
Improved: undoing an automatic fix for a broken link or a missing image alt now reverses exactly that change wherever it was applied across your site — and leaves any later edits to those pages untouched, instead of restoring an old copy of the whole page.
Fixed: a broken-link fix could be reported as failed even when it actually succeeded on the page; this no longer happens.
2.5.41
Improved llms.txt (the AI-discovery file): pages are now ordered by importance — your home page and main service pages first, instead of buried among sub-pages — so AI assistants can tell which pages matter most.
Fixed: llms.txt no longer shows a stray “&” in place of “&”, and invisible characters are stripped from headings.
Fixed: /llms.txt now serves directly instead of redirecting to /llms.txt/.
Structured data can now include a LocalBusiness block (business name, phone, address, service area) alongside your existing SEO plugin, so Google and AI answer engines can attribute your business — shown when your Seonix project has those details.
2.5.40
Fixed: the “Upgrade this project” button no longer shows on paid plans (it was staying visible due to a CSS cascade issue).
Fixed: the brand buttons no longer render with invisible text on hover.
2.5.39
The Seonix mark in the block-editor sidebar now reads green when a track has no open issues, instead of greying out on pages that have not been scanned yet.
2.5.38
New: one-click SEO fixes from the plugin. Fixable issues — page titles, meta descriptions, image alt text, mixed content and paginated-archive noindex among them — now show a “Fix it for me” button that applies the change through the connected Seonix service. Available on paid Seonix plans.
Per-page audit detail in the block editor sidebar: each issue now explains what it means, why it matters, and how to fix it, mirroring the Seonix dashboard.
Supplemental FAQ / Q&A structured data is now emitted alongside your existing SEO plugin instead of conflicting with it.
Site Health issue counts now match the Seonix dashboard exactly.
Bundled the admin-interface fonts with the plugin (no external CDN requests).
Housekeeping: corrected the readme stable tag and added database-escaping annotations for WordPress.org compliance.
2.5.23 – 2.5.37
Internal iterations: admin UI and editor-panel refinements, sync reliability fixes, and WordPress.org compliance housekeeping. See the GitHub releases for per-version detail.
2.5.22
Fixed the top bar / nav alignment: the brand and tabs are now centered with the page content (a class name collided with the hero pillar style and pushed them to the left edge).
2.5.21
Admin screens now paint the full warm app-shell background, so the white top bar and cards read with proper depth (matches the Seonix Optimizer look).
2.5.20
Per-page audit now appears in the block-editor document sidebar, not just at the bottom. Pages added or changed after the last scan are clearly marked “Not scanned yet” instead of showing a misleading “all clear”.
2.5.18
Admin shell now matches the Seonix app: a flush full-width white top bar (brand + version + connection status) and a Site Health / Settings nav-tab row with the active tab underlined in brand purple. Reconnect moved into Settings. No behaviour change.
2.5.16
Per-page audit in the editor. A new “Seonix — Page audit” box on the post/page editor shows that page’s issues from the last Seonix scan — a traffic light, the SEO / Technical / AI-Search breakdown, and each issue’s recommendation — so you can see what to fix without leaving the editor. Read-only (the analysis runs on the Seonix platform); it links straight to the full issue list.
IndexNow auto-submit. Publishing or updating a public post or page now automatically pings IndexNow, so Bing and Yandex re-crawl the changed URL within minutes instead of waiting for a scheduled crawl. The verification key is generated and installed automatically on the first submission — no setup step needed. Drafts, private/non-public content, and pages marked noindex by your SEO plugin are skipped, and the same URL is not re-submitted more than once per 10 minutes. On by default. Note: Google does not participate in IndexNow.
2.5.15
Redesigned the admin UI to match the Seonix design system: a dark Site Health hero with a gradient score ring and per-category pillars, KPI cards (Open issues / Resolved / Came back), the brand purple palette, and a refreshed Issues list and detail dialog. No behaviour change — the connect flow, task sync, filters, and settings work exactly as before; existing connected sites need no reconfiguration.
2.5.14
Fixed the Seonix icon in the WordPress admin menu rendering as a solid white square. The menu now uses the real Seonix favicon, embedded in a form that WordPress core’s icon repainting (svg-painter.js) cannot flatten, so the brand mark shows correctly in every menu state.
2.5.0
One-click connect. A new top-level Seonix admin menu links your WordPress site to Seonix in a single click — it hands off to https://app.seonix.ai/connect, you pick a project, and the connection completes automatically. No API key to copy. The manual key flow still works from Seonix → Settings. The browser handoff carries a single one-time security code in the URL fragment so it never reaches server logs.
Site Health inside WordPress. The Seonix Dashboard shows your SEO audit as a task list — overall score, open/solved counts, per-category gauges (SEO / Technical / AI Search), and each issue’s recommendation and affected URL. Tasks are stored locally and rendered from there, so viewing the Dashboard never calls the Seonix API; a “Refresh tasks” button (and a soft once-a-day auto-refresh) pulls the latest on demand.
Structured data (JSON-LD) on published articles. Seonix adds schema.org markup (Article, breadcrumbs, and FAQ/How-To when present) in the page so search engines and AI answer engines understand your content. Stays out of the way when another SEO plugin is already outputting structured data, to avoid duplicate markup. Toggle under Seonix → Settings → Structured Data.
Redesigned admin UI. Full-width Problems and Settings tabs matching the Seonix web app, with a Site Health panel (overall score ring plus per-category bars) and a clearer, filterable task list.
New REST routes POST /connect/exchange and POST /tasks under both the seonix/v1 and legacy content-engine/v1 namespaces. All output is escaped, all input is sanitized, and every state-changing admin action stays capability- and nonce-checked.
Security hardening and reliability fixes. Uninstall cleans up the new options and the local tasks table. Existing connected sites keep working unchanged — no reconfiguration needed.
2.4.2
SEO-plugin integration tightened: term meta descriptions and the title-template helper now go strictly through the active SEO plugin’s public class APIs. If those classes are unreachable, we fail cleanly (empty string / null / 412 Precondition Failed) instead of reading its stored options directly.
No new code paths and no migrations — the change only narrows the previously documented fallback.
2.4.1
WordPress.org review compliance pass. No behaviour change; existing connected sites continue to work without reconfiguration.
Removed the deprecated libxml_disable_entity_loader() calls from the HTML-to-blocks helper. The remaining LIBXML_NONET flag plus libxml2 2.9+ defaults provide the same XXE protection on the WP-supported PHP range (7.4+).
llms.txt and llms-full.txt are now served entirely from PHP via rewrite rules — the plugin no longer writes any static files to the WordPress root. ETag/Last-Modified/304 caching keeps the responses cheap, and the dynamic body is always in sync with current published content. Output is escaped on emit.
The IndexNow key file moved from the WordPress root to wp-content/uploads/seonix/{key}.txt and is written via the WordPress Filesystem API (WP_Filesystem). The file_url returned by the setup endpoint points at the new location and is accepted by IndexNow’s keyLocation parameter.
SEO-plugin integration now goes through public APIs only for the pagination noindex-subpages flag and taxonomy term descriptions. No direct option writes remain anywhere in the plugin; both fix methods refuse to run unless a supported SEO plugin is active.
Renamed assets/icon-256×256.png → assets/seonix-logo.png and assets/icon-64×64.png → assets/seonix-logo-small.png so they don’t clash with WordPress.org plugin-directory catalog asset names. The directory banners/icons live in SVN /assets/, not in the plugin zip.
2.4.0
Rebrand release. Plugin name updated to “Seonix SEO – Real-time AI Agent for Technical SEO, AI Content & Autonomous Growth” so the WordPress.org listing reflects what the plugin and connected Seonix service actually do: real-time technical SEO audits, AI-generated content, one-click fixes, and autonomous publishing for Google and AI search engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity).
readme.txt: rewritten short description and Description body with a full overview of Seonix capabilities (real-time technical SEO audits, AI content, autonomous publishing, AI-search visibility). Plugin tags updated for the SEO category in the WordPress.org directory.
No code or behaviour change. The plugin REST API surface, auth flow, sync contract, and SEO Fix subsystem are identical to 2.3.2 — safe to update.
2.3.2
Corrected the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy URLs in the External Service disclosure (https://seonix.ai/terms-of-use and https://seonix.ai/privacy-policy). The previous /terms and /privacy paths returned 404.
2.3.1
Self-configure on verify: when the Seonix backend calls GET /wp-json/seonix/v1/verify, the plugin now persists engine_url, project_id, and project_name from the request’s query string. Outbound sync (/api/plugin/sync, /api/plugin/content-event) and the Settings → Seonix UI always reflect the backend that completed the last successful verify — operators no longer need to edit options by hand when a site is moved between Seonix projects or between dev/prod backends. Older backends that don’t pass the new params are still accepted (empty values are skipped).
Internal: Seonix_Sync::is_safe_url is now public static so the REST controller reuses the same SSRF guard that protects outbound sync.
Plugin Check compliance: the uninstall-time DROP TABLE now passes the table name through $wpdb->prepare( ‘…%i’, $table ) so PluginCheck’s UnescapedDBParameter sniff is satisfied. Tested up to WordPress 7.0; minimum bumped to WordPress 6.2 (required for the %i SQL identifier placeholder).
2.3.0
WordPress.org submission prep: complete plugin header with Plugin URI, Author URI, License URI, and Domain Path; readme.txt fully discloses the external service (Seonix SaaS), the exact data sent, and links to Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
i18n: empty /languages/seonix.pot scaffold shipped for translators; translations for WordPress.org-hosted plugins are auto-loaded by core since WP 4.6, so no explicit load_plugin_textdomain() call is needed.
Hardened uninstall: legacy @unlink() replaced with WordPress’s wp_delete_file(); seonix_migrated_from_ce option and {$wpdb->prefix}seonix_seo_fix_history table are now dropped on uninstall.
Internal: enqueue handles renamed from legacy ce-admin to seonix-admin for consistency. No behaviour change.
Tested up to WordPress 6.8 (bumped to 7.0 in 2.3.1).
2.2.6
Security audit fixes (internal hardening; no API or behaviour change for callers).
2.2.5
Fixed: featured_image_alt from Seonix now persists as the WordPress alt-text attribute on the imported featured-image attachment (_wp_attachment_image_alt post meta). Previously the field was silently dropped.
Performance: trimmed REST responses across every endpoint to ship only fields the Seonix backend actually decodes. Largest wins: GET /posts list no longer does per-row get_the_terms() lookups or a global wp_count_posts(); /llms-status no longer walks wp_count_posts() x 2; /cache/purge returns 204 No Content; /seo-fix/dry-run skips sprintf of the now-unused diff string per fix method.
2.2.4
New pagination_noindex fix method. Flips the SEO plugin’s site-wide noindex-subpages option to true (so paginated archive subpages render <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, follow”>) and force-rebuilds the affected term records so the change takes effect immediately. Without this, the live /category/foo/page/2/ HTML keeps rendering index, follow until the SEO plugin’s cron rebuild catches up. All other stored title and meta settings are preserved unchanged.
2.2.3
Fixed: term_meta_description now syncs to the indexables table so the live archive page actually renders the new description on installs that use indexables (v14+).
2.2.2
New SEO fix method term_meta_description for taxonomy archive pages (category / tag / custom taxonomies). The plugin resolves the archive URL to a term and writes the description through the active SEO plugin’s term-meta layer. Fixes the gap where meta_description_missing issues on /category/… and /tag/… URLs survived auto-fix runs because the legacy meta_description method only handled posts.
Broken-link fix gained an optional mode parameter. Default mode=rewrite is unchanged. New mode=remove_link strips every <a href=”$old_url”>TEXT</a> (absolute and matching relative href) down to its inner TEXT — used as the fallback when the AI matcher can’t find a confident redirect target. Deep-mode rewrites apply to the new mode too.
Backwards-compatible with older Seonix backends: they simply won’t dispatch to the new method/mode.
2.2.1
Per-post snapshot (GET /seonix/v1/posts and /seonix/v1/posts/{id}) now includes the active SEO plugin’s per-post-type title template (e.g. %%title%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%) and the site blogname. The Seonix backend uses these to size the AI title-suggester’s character budget so a meta title plus the appended sitename suffix stays under the rendered <title> length limit. Returns null when no compatible SEO plugin is installed.
2.2.0
Key takeaways callout block. The plugin now accepts key_takeaways[] and key_takeaways_title in the publish payload and renders them as a styled <aside class=”seonix-key-takeaways”> block above the article body. Bundled stylesheet (assets/seonix-content.css) is enqueued on singular post pages so the block looks consistent across themes.
Per-tenant brand accent. The payload also accepts accent_color (canonical 7-character hex). Set as –seonix-accent on the <aside> so the callout matches the project palette out of the box. Themes can override –seonix-accent globally at :root if they prefer their own colour.
Takeaways and brand accent are persisted in _seonix_key_takeaways / _seonix_key_takeaways_title / _seonix_brand_accent post meta for downstream consumers (themes, AMP, llms.txt).
2.1.0
SEO Fix subsystem: REST routes under /seonix/v1/seo-fix/* (capabilities, dry-run, apply, rollback, history) backed by per-method classes (SSL mixed content, redirect, broken link, meta title, meta description, image alt).
Cache purger so applied fixes invalidate page cache without manual clears.
llms.txt full-content variant alongside the index, with ETag and Last-Modified for efficient AI-crawler revalidation.
Hardened auth header detection: X-Seonix-Key preferred, X-CE-Key kept as legacy alias, Authorization: Bearer continues to work.
PHPUnit unit tests for sync, REST controller, registry, history, cache purger, and individual fix methods.
Internal cleanups across the sync class and admin page; no behaviour changes there.
2.0.0
Complete rewrite with API key authentication (replaces handshake flow). New keys are sx_<64 hex>; legacy ce_<64 hex> keys remain accepted.
Multi-file architecture for better maintainability.
SEO meta set via meta_input during wp_insert_post so the active SEO plugin picks up the values immediately without an extra save.
Added support for an additional SEO plugin alongside the two already covered.
Multi-category support with automatic creation.
Robust MIME type detection for featured images.
Configurable post author setting.
IndexNow setup and status endpoints.
Improved admin settings page with card-based design.
