AI Search Optimization – llms.txt, Schema & AEO Audit – Citevera

1.0.7

• Fix: the dashboard no longer fails with “Cookie check failed” after a wp-admin tab has been open for a long time. The plugin now refreshes its WordPress security nonce automatically and retries; if your session has genuinely ended, it says so plainly and offers a one-click reload instead of a retry that could never succeed.
• Improved error messages when the dashboard cannot load: a permissions problem, a security plugin or host firewall blocking /wp-json/ (with the exact path to allowlist), and a license issue now each get their own explanation, always including the failing URL.
• The AI visibility score now shows the five AI decision funnel stages (detection, understanding, trust, coverage, conversion) it is computed from, with an explainer. Previously a low visibility score next to healthy readiness bars looked like a bug; they are different measurements, and now the dashboard says so.
• Fix: axis bars no longer read “First audit” when audits already exist; a trend arrow appears once there are two audits of the same kind to compare.
• The sitemap status now reports how many URLs the sitemap declares. A sitemap that is served but declares 0 URLs shows an amber warning instead of a green check – serving an empty sitemap is not a pass.

1.0.6

• Fix: deactivating a license now releases its activation seat on the licensing server. Previous versions only cleared the key locally, so the seat stayed occupied until it was pruned manually.
• Fix: the dashboard and audit now VERIFY that /llms.txt, /robots.txt and your sitemap are actually being served (via self-requests to your own site, the way a crawler sees them) instead of reading internal settings. On sites with plain permalinks these URLs silently serve the homepage; the plugin previously reported “Published” and scored crawlability 100 anyway. Checks tell you exactly what is wrong and how to fix it (usually Settings – Permalinks – Save), report “Not verified” honestly when a host blocks self-requests, and unverifiable checks are excluded from scoring rather than counted as passing.
• Redesigned dashboard that matches the WordPress admin look: native grays, clearer score presentation, and honest empty states (“Not measured” instead of a zero score before your first audit).
• Fix: two dashboard icons rendered as literal placeholder text ([lock] on the cloud-audit link, [-] in the empty activity feed). Both are proper icons now.
• Fix: the scoring-methodology notice no longer gets relocated into the dashboard header by wp-admin, which also pushed the tier badge out of place.
• Free tier: the dashboard now flags score decay (a drop since the previous audit, or an audit older than 30 days) and shows the monthly competitor-insight card available on paid plans.
• Added a one-time review request that appears only after three successful audits and a score improvement. Dismiss it once and it never returns.
• Copy: rewrite features are now labelled “AI rewrites” throughout.

1.0.5

• Fix: license keys issued after the move to Freemius (keys starting with sk_) can now be activated. Previous versions rejected them before contacting the licensing server: the key field uppercased input as you typed and the format check only accepted the legacy CV-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX shape. Legacy CV keys continue to work unchanged.
• The license screen’s format hint and placeholder now describe both key families.
• Listing name is now keyword-led (AI Search Optimization – llms.txt, Schema & AEO Audit) so the directory entry says what the plugin does before who made it. Slug, plugin file and wp-admin name are unchanged.

1.0.4

• Tested and confirmed compatible with WordPress 7.0.
• Fix: the Gutenberg editor sidebar (Citevera score panel) is now properly wired. The PHP-side registrar was never invoked from the plugin bootstrap, so the editor JS bundle never enqueued.
• Fix: the “Optimize for AI” block-toolbar button now appears. The format was registering as a bare span, which collided with core/underline’s bare-span registration and was rejected by rich-text. The format now uses a scoped class (citevera-optimize) so it coexists with core formats.
• Fix: PluginSidebar imports migrated from @wordpress/edit-post to @wordpress/editor to clear console deprecation warnings on WP 6.6+.
• Fix: the monthly auto-audit + regression alert emails are now properly scheduled. The cron registrar was never invoked from the plugin bootstrap, so the monthly audit never ran in any prior release.
• Fix: cron schedule registration now defers to the init hook, eliminating a “_load_textdomain_just_in_time” notice that fired the first time the cron was registered (added in WP 6.7).

1.0.3

• Build-tool transparency: deployed zip now ships the JavaScript/TypeScript sources for the admin React app and the Gutenberg editor integration (assets/admin/src, assets/editor/src) alongside the compiled bundles, plus package.json and tsconfig.json. Satisfies WordPress.org Guidelines 1 and 4 (public access to source code and build tools). New “Development” section in readme.txt documents the rebuild steps.

1.0.2

• WP.org review compliance: FAQPage schema emission, monthly auto-audit cron, and regression alerts are now free features (previously license-gated). Premium tier continues to gate cloud audits, AI rewrites, and the Gutenberg sidebar score – all of which require the Citevera cloud service.
• Security: harden /llms.txt output. wp_strip_all_tags() applied to dynamic site fields + X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff response header.
• Compliance: text domain renamed from ‘citevera’ to ‘citevera-ai-search-optimization’ to match plugin slug.
• Build: stop including .wordpress-org/ in the deploy zip (wp.org pulls it from SVN /assets/).
• Schema toggle UI: HowTo, SoftwareApplication, and Product entries removed (front-end emission not yet wired; surfacing them as toggles let users enable settings that did not affect output).