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Changelog

All notable changes to the Minorank SEO plugin and Minorank Platform are documented here.

Plugin v1.2.4 — June 2026​

New​

  • Three-page admin interface — standalone SEO Settings, Redirections, and 404 Monitor pages in the WordPress admin menu
  • Redirections UI — live search, type/group filters, bulk delete, paginated fetch, group autocomplete datalist
  • 404 Monitor UI — stat cards (Unique 404 URLs, Total Hits), sortable columns, bulk dismiss, one-click "Create Redirect" from any 404 entry
  • Settings save guard — the Save All Settings button is disabled until all settings have loaded from the server, preventing data-loss saves on slow connections

Improved​

  • API key auto-tested on Settings page load — no need to click Test Connection manually
  • Schema types and local business fields are never overwritten by an empty save
  • REST API check_permission() method made public (private methods fail WordPress's is_callable() check)

Plugin v1.2.3​

New​

  • Schema: per-content-type schema type configurable from Settings (Posts, Pages, Products, Categories)
  • REST API: WordPress admin sessions accepted alongside API key authentication — no API key required for logged-in admins

Improved​

  • Sitemap: WooCommerce sitemaps respect enabled/disabled toggles correctly
  • Schema settings: values are merged on save instead of overwriting — prevents accidentally clearing fields not included in a partial update

Plugin v1.2.2​

New​

  • IndexNow: manual URL ping field and homepage ping button in Settings
  • Sitemap: sub-sitemap URLs shown inline below each toggle when enabled
  • Settings: WooCommerce section shown conditionally when WooCommerce is active

Plugin v1.2.1​

New​

  • Content analysis: multiple focus keywords scored independently — no cross-keyword penalty
  • Focus keywords persisted to _minorank_focus_keywords post meta as a JSON array

Plugin v1.2.0​

New​

  • Gutenberg 4-tab SEO panel (General / Advanced / Schema / Social)
  • 13 new _minorank_* post meta fields: robots, canonical, max-snippet, max-image-preview, max-video-preview, OG title/description/image, Twitter title/description/image, schema type override, pillar content flag
  • Live SERP preview with character counters (green/yellow/red thresholds)
  • Full Open Graph tag output (og:title, og:description, og:image, og:type, og:url)
  • Full Twitter Card tag output (twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image)

Plugin v1.1.9​

New​

  • Keyword chip input with per-chip colour scoring (green / yellow / red)
  • SEO Title and Meta Description fields with live character counters

Plugin v1.1.8​

New​

  • Multiple focus keywords with independent scoring
  • OG image picker (select from WordPress media library or enter URL)

Plugin v1.1.7​

New​

  • Elementor floating SEO panel — same 4-tab interface available inside the Elementor editor

Plugin v1.1.6​

New​

  • Gutenberg content analysis sidebar with real-time SEO score

Plugin v1.1.5​

New​

  • Configurable per-content-type schema types from admin settings

Plugin v1.1.2​

New​

  • Redirections: group names, redirect types 307, 410, and 451
  • Bulk creation API (POST /redirections/bulk)
  • Runtime dbDelta database migration — no plugin reactivation needed when schema changes

Plugin v1.1.0​

New​

  • XML Sitemap with sitemap index and per-type sub-sitemaps
  • LLMs.txt generation following the llmstxt.org spec
  • IndexNow — auto-ping on publish and manual ping
  • JSON-LD schema: Article, WebPage, Product, LocalBusiness, BreadcrumbList
  • REST API settings endpoints (GET/POST /settings, GET/POST /schema/settings, GET/POST /sitemap/settings)

Plugin v1.0.0​

Initial release:

  • REST API for meta management and 404 monitoring
  • _minorank_meta_title and _minorank_meta_description post meta
  • 404 Monitor with minorank_404s database table
  • Redirections manager with minorank_redirections database table (301, 302)
  • IndexNow key file generation

Platform — June 2026​

New​

  • AI Visibility — check brand presence in ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini across up to 10 topics
  • Strategy Planner — AI-generated keyword clusters, audience personas, content plan, and 90-day action plan
  • Blog Post Planner — AI content calendar with month-by-month post planning and direct AI Writer integration
  • Internal Links Analysis — orphaned page detection, page depth distribution, specific from/to/anchor text recommendations
  • Backlinks — full backlink profile via DataForSEO (referring domains, dofollow ratio, keyword position distribution)
  • Slack alerts — traffic drop notifications with configurable threshold, compared to prior 28-day baseline
  • Tasks — task manager with AI-generated tasks from all report types, Asana push, and client completion report export

Improved​

  • AI SEO reports now include 16+ sections including CTR Opportunities, Page 2 Keywords, Target Keywords Progress, and monitor sections
  • Competitor analysis deep-dive: keyword position distribution chart, full ranking keyword list with Target/Blog action buttons
  • Meta Manager: bulk AI meta generation and batch push to WordPress
  • Blog Planner: published content history table with search and type filter

Platform — March 2026​

Initial private beta launch:

  • Multi-client dashboard
  • Google Search Console integration (16-month historical sync)
  • Google Analytics 4 integration
  • AI SEO reports with Claude (Greek and English)
  • Competitor analysis with 12-month organic traffic chart
  • Keyword gap analysis
  • Target keyword tracking with AI action plans
  • WordPress SEO management via plugin REST API (Meta Manager, Redirections, 404 Monitor)
  • WP Publisher (AI Article Writer with Gemini image generation)
  • Site health monitoring (weekly automated crawl)
  • Enhanced Analysis (CTR opportunities, page 2 keywords, brand vs non-brand)
  • Connectors: Asana, Slack, WordPress
  • Per-client onboarding checklist