CiteWP AI Search Optimizer – Optimize Content for AI Engines

Changelog

0.7.9

• Schema detection now reads rendered page output, crediting FAQPage and Article schema from any emitter (Rank Math, Yoast, AIOSEO, hand-rolled JSON-LD) equally.
• Schema generation moved from post content insertion to head injection (wp_head), eliminating wpautop corruption and improving compatibility with caching plugins.
• FAQ and Article signals now score independently — Article signal credits validated Article schema only, not generic SEO-plugin presence.
• FAQ extractor fixes: CSS leak in text extraction, br-tag word-fusion, and whitespace handling.
• Tolerant JSON-LD parsing handles hand-crafted schema with embedded line breaks.
• Unicode handling fix — em-dashes and other escaped Unicode characters now render correctly in injected schema.
• Removed block-label as a schema-generation trigger to prevent overwriting existing user-authored schema.
• New REST endpoint POST /citewp/aiso/v1/schema/[id]/inject for Insert/Remove with conflict guard.
• AI Recommendations card on the Cite Score page now excludes llms.txt-opted-out posts from per-signal counts and card visibility, matching the rest of the dashboard’s exclusion behavior.

0.7.8

• Schema detection — emitter-agnostic rendered-output detection via template_redirect full-page cache and sync self-request on Recalculate. Credits schema from Rank Math, Yoast, AIOSEO, and hand-rolled wp:html blocks equally.
• FAQ/Article signal independence — Article/Schema signal gates on Article-type validation, not presence of any schema type; FAQPage-only detections credit the FAQ signal only. Schema detection cache survives content edits and clears on post status transitions only (not every save).
• json_decode_tolerant — hand-crafted JSON-LD with literal CR/LF in string values (accepted by Google Rich Results, rejected by PHP’s strict parser) now parsed correctly.
• Flag-don’t-inject — CiteWP no longer offers to insert FAQPage schema when a valid FAQPage already exists on the rendered page, preventing Rich Result clobbering. Removes the Kadence block-label auto-generation trigger that caused duplicate FAQPage schema insertion.
• FAQ extraction fix — inline CSS from Kadence accordion blocks no longer leaks into acceptedAnswer.text; clean_text() strips style/script noise nodes before extracting text content.
• Head injection — Schema Suggestions Insert/Remove now stores generated schema in post meta and emits via wp_head, replacing block-editor insertion. Eliminates wpautop corruption of JSON-LD in post_content. Insert and Remove buttons backed by REST endpoint with detect-before-inject conflict guard.
• Schema storage — injected schema stored as serialized PHP array instead of JSON string, preventing wp_unslash from corrupting Unicode escapes (e.g. em-dash rendered as ‘u2014’).
• FAQ word-fusion fix — clean_text() replaces br elements with a space text node before reading textContent, preventing adjacent words from fusing at line breaks.

0.7.7

• Cite Score page — ‘Excluded from llms.txt’ pill on per-post table rows for posts excluded from llms.txt generation.
• Cite Score Over Time chart — sparse-data state shown when the selected window has fewer than 3 recorded data points.
• Left rail — ‘Request a Feature’ link below the Pro card.

0.7.6

First public release on WordPress.org.

• Cite Score — transparent 100-point AI citation readiness score across 17 signals in three categories (Structure, Citability, Authority). Full rubric published at https://citewp.com/cite-score with research citations for every weight.
• AI Crawler Tracking — log and filter visits from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and 40+ other AI bots across 19 vendors. Bot-type and date-range filters, summary stats, CSV export.
• llms.txt Generation — automatic llms.txt and llms-full.txt with cornerstone content prioritization. Integrates with Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO.
• Cite Score in every editor — Gutenberg sidebar with per-signal drilldown and on-demand recalculation; universal meta box brings the Cite Score and schema suggestions to Classic Editor, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, and Bricks.
• Schema Suggestions — one-click Article and FAQPage JSON-LD generation with per-post schema type selection. FAQ detection recognizes accordions from Kadence, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Spectra, and HTML5 details/summary.
• Cite Score dashboard — site-wide score, score-over-time trend, per-post score table, AI recommendations, and schema coverage.
• Crawler Logs page — Bot Visits Over Time and Top Crawled Pages, with date-range-aware KPIs.
• Per-post llms.txt control — exclude individual posts or pages from llms.txt; excluded content is also dropped from aggregate score metrics.
• Dashboard widget — average Cite Score, top crawled pages, and AI bot activity at a glance.