0.7.1

Fixed — WooCommerce HPOS Compatibility

• Fixed incorrect feature key custom_order_storage – custom_order_tables in FeaturesUtil::declare_compatibility(), which caused WooCommerce to flag the plugin as incompatible with High-Performance Order Storage

0.7.0

Changed — Plugin Rename

• Plugin display name changed from "GEO AI for WooCommerce" to "GEO AI Search Optimization" across all user-facing surfaces
• Updated Plugin Name header, settings page title, menu label, meta box title, dashboard widget title, admin notices, CLI status output, Quick Edit section title
• Slug, text domain, CSS classes, option keys, meta keys, REST namespace, and WP-CLI command remain unchanged for backward compatibility

Fixed — UTF-8 / Cyrillic Encoding

• decode_text() now detects and repairs mojibake from double UTF-8 encoding (latin1 DB connection → UTF-8 → UTF-8) via mb_convert_encoding from Windows-1252
• write_file() validates UTF-8 integrity via mb_check_encoding before writing static files
• Excerpt descriptions (wp_trim_words output) now passed through decode_text() to prevent HTML entities in plain text
• Full content in llms-full.txt now passed through decode_text() after wp_trim_words
• Taxonomy term descriptions now passed through decode_text() after wp_trim_words

0.6.0

Changed — Plugin Rename (WordPress Plugin Review)

• Plugin renamed from "GEO AI Woo" to "GEO AI for WooCommerce"
• Slug changed from geo-ai-woo to geo-ai-for-woocommerce
• Text domain changed from geo-ai-woo to geo-ai-for-woocommerce
• Main plugin file renamed from geo-ai-woo.php to geo-ai-for-woocommerce.php
• REST API namespace changed from geo-ai-woo/v1 to geo-ai-for-woocommerce/v1
• WP-CLI command changed from wp geo-ai-woo to wp geo-ai-for-woocommerce
• All asset handles, CSS classes, HTML IDs, and admin page slugs updated
• Language files renamed from geo-ai-woo-*.po/mo to geo-ai-for-woocommerce-*.po/mo
• Internal prefixes (geo_ai_woo_, _geo_ai_woo_, Geo_Ai_Woo_) intentionally preserved for backward compatibility with existing installations

Added — WordPress Plugin Review Compliance

• Added Requires Plugins: woocommerce header to main plugin file
• CLI export now writes to wp_upload_dir()/geo-ai-for-woocommerce/ instead of arbitrary paths

Fixed — Security

• Removed JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE | JSON_PRETTY_PRINT flags from wp_json_encode() in JSON-LD output (class-seo-headers.php)
• Fixed unescaped API key field output in settings page (class-settings.php)

Fixed — UTF-8 Encoding

• Fixed Cyrillic and multibyte character corruption (mojibake) in static llms.txt and llms-full.txt files
• Replaced WP_Filesystem::put_contents() with direct file_put_contents() — FTP transport was corrupting multibyte characters during file write
• Added decode_text() helper — decodes HTML entities to UTF-8 per-field (titles, descriptions, keywords, taxonomy names) instead of relying on a single pass at the end

Improved — Duplicate Plugin Protection

• Added defined('GEO_AI_WOO_VERSION') guard in main plugin file — prevents fatal error when two copies of the plugin are installed
• Added admin notice that detects and warns about duplicate plugin copies

Added — Localization

• German (de_DE) translation
• French (fr_FR) translation

v0.5.5

Docs

• Updated documentation with new domain geoai.run
• Added ecosystem overview

0.5.4.1

Fixed – Machine Readability

• Removed UTF-8 symbols (✓/✗) from crawler rules in llms.txt output — now uses plain ASCII Allowed / Blocked for maximum parser compatibility

0.5.4

0.5.4 – content sanitization pipeline

Added:

• New Geo_Ai_Woo_Content_Sanitizer class — centralized content cleaning pipeline for all AI-facing output
• Removes page builder markup: WP Bakery (vc_*, mk_*), Divi (et_pb_*), Beaver Builder (fl_builder_*), Elementor/Gutenberg HTML comments
• Removes registered and unregistered WordPress shortcodes (paired and self-closing)
• Strips <script> and <style> tags with their contents
• Removes inline base64-encoded data (embedded images, fonts, etc.)
• Fixes mojibake artifacts from double UTF-8 encoding (curly quotes, em/en dashes, ellipsis, primes)
• Decodes HTML entities to proper UTF-8 characters
• Normalizes whitespace (collapses multiple spaces/tabs/newlines, trims)
• Filter geo_ai_woo_pre_sanitize — modify content before sanitization
• Filter geo_ai_woo_sanitized_content — modify final sanitized output
• Filter geo_ai_woo_sanitize_patterns — add custom regex patterns
  for third-party page builders

Fixed: Raw page builder markup (WP Bakery, Elementor, etc.) appearing in AI crawler output. Thanks @tommcg for reporting!

0.5.3

• Minimum WordPress version raised from 6.0 to 6.2 (required for %i identifier placeholder support in $wpdb->prepare())
• Replaced interpolated $table_name in SQL queries with %i identifier placeholder via $wpdb->prepare() in class-crawl-tracker.php (drop_table, get_recent_activity, get_total_visits, cleanup_old_records)
• Replaced interpolated $table_name in DROP TABLE query with %i placeholder in uninstall.php
• Fixed phpcs:ignore placement for postmeta DELETE query in uninstall.php

0.5.2

New AI Crawlers

• claude-web (Anthropic / Claude Web)
• Amazonbot (Amazon / Alexa)
• Applebot (Apple / Siri & Spotlight)

0.5.1

Fixed — WordPress Plugin Check Compliance

• Fixed unescaped URL output in SEO meta tags (class-seo-headers.php) — esc_url() now applied at echo, not at assignment
• Fixed translators: comment placement in class-admin-notices.php and class-settings.php — moved directly above __() / esc_html__() calls
• Fixed unsanitized nonce input in class-meta-box.php, class-bulk-edit.php, and class-woocommerce.php — added sanitize_text_field() before wp_verify_nonce()
• Fixed unprefixed global variables in uninstall.php — wrapped cleanup logic in geo_ai_woo_uninstall() function

0.5.0

0.5.0 – New AI Crawlers

Added

• OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI / Copilot Search)
• DeepSeekBot (DeepSeek)
• GrokBot (xAI / Grok)
• meta-externalagent (Meta / LLaMA)
• PanguBot (Alibaba / Qwen)