LeoSearch – AI Search & Shopping Assistant for WooCommerce

LeoSearch helps shoppers find suitable WooCommerce products using natural-language search and a conversational shopping assistant. It supports OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek and compatible providers, catalog-grounded recommendations, analytics, merchandising, multilingual stores and authenticated app integrations.

1.0.15

• Removed an unnecessary review-only QA checklist document from the package.

1.0.14

• Removed the custom CSS editor from plugin settings.
• Made storefront credit display opt-in only.
• Documented external AI provider services in the readme.

1.0.13

• Updated WordPress.org submission metadata.
• Matched the text domain to the submitted plugin slug.
• Added the WooCommerce dependency header.

1.0.12

• Prepared the free WordPress.org submission build.
• Removed inactive license UI and validation code from the free package.

1.0.10

• Cleaned the final analytics direct-query Plugin Check warnings.

1.0.9

• Restored assistant UI controls and animations.
• Added search height and font-size settings.

1.0.8

• Reduced Plugin Check noise for provider endpoints and analytics exports.

1.0.7

• Fixed remaining review-notice request sanitization.
• Removed the translation placeholder warning in quick questions.
• Improved prepared custom-table SQL identifiers.

1.0.6

• Added a dedicated Analytics tab.
• Added locked Pro analytics previews with a grey overlay.
• Added dashboard query caching and cleaner custom-table handling.
• Updated plugin metadata for the current release.

1.0.3

• Added close-button background, icon and border color controls.
• Improved storefront styling controls under Styling.
• Restyled the assistant close control for clearer touch and hover behavior.

1.0.2

• Prevented product variations from appearing as repeated storefront products.
• Enforced explicit minimum, maximum and stock constraints even when AI is unavailable.
• Invalidated older search caches so corrected results appear immediately.

1.0.1

• Made shortcode and block search bars respect their Elementor or container width.
• Added a separate configurable width for automatic native-search replacement.
• Added provider connection links and a delayed, dismissible review request.

1.0.0

• Completed the production test release roadmap.
• Added multilingual indexing for WPML and Polylang stores.
• Added pinned and excluded product merchandising rules.
• Added Free, Pro and Agency feature planning for future monetization.
• Added assistant behavior instructions, subtitle and branding controls.
• Added system diagnostics, onboarding and API documentation.

0.7.1

• Fixed live color settings by moving CSS-variable rules into the primary frontend stylesheets.
• Prevented theme headers from collapsing the replacement search field.
• Added a unique combined AI, conversation and shopping icon.

0.7.0

• Added complete search and shopping-assistant color controls.
• Added editable assistant quick questions.
• Added optional authenticated API endpoints for future app integrations.
• Strengthened replacement-search sizing inside constrained theme headers.
• Applied live styling through frontend CSS variables and added a unique AI shopping icon.

0.6.1

• Fixed compact search-result layouts and isolated cards from theme CSS.
• Fixed encoded WooCommerce currency and spacing entities.
• Added assistant on/off and left/right widget placement controls.
• Added a dedicated shopping-assistant icon.

0.6.0

• Added focused Search, Shopping Assistant, Integrations and Styling tabs.
• Added top-query, zero-result, click and add-to-cart analytics.
• Added privacy retention controls and CSV export.
• Fixed variation attribute indexing and protected the dashboard from raw server error HTML.

0.5.0

• Simplified the admin to Dashboard and AI Integrations tabs.
• Added TheLeoPress publisher branding and isolated notice suppression.
• Added conversational shopping assistant with session context.
• Added catalog-grounded recommendations and product comparisons.
• Added direct add-to-cart for purchasable simple products.
• Added configurable assistant name, welcome message and enable control.

0.4.1

• Redesigned the admin as a responsive professional dashboard.
• Added Overview, AI Providers, Search Index and Appearance sections.
• Added setup health, connection testing, indexing progress and live-style controls.

0.4.0

• Added OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek and custom OpenAI-compatible providers.
• Added separate protected API key fields and merchant-selected models.
• Added responsive live product search with images and prices.
• Added shortcode, dynamic block and native search replacement option.
• Added accessible loading, result and empty states.

0.3.0

• Added OpenAI Responses API integration with Structured Outputs.
• Added natural-language price, availability, keyword and sorting intent.
• Added caching, monthly limits, rate limiting and keyword fallback.
• AI extracts intent only; products always come from the WooCommerce index.

0.2.0

• Added product and variation indexing.
• Added automatic index synchronization.
• Added relevance-ranked keyword search API.
• Added admin batch re-indexing and WP-CLI support.

0.1.0

• Initial plugin foundation.