Minorank SEO

Minorank SEO is a full-featured SEO plugin for WordPress that covers every layer of on-page and technical SEO — meta tags, structured data (JSON-LD schema), XML sitemaps, redirects, and real-time content analysis — plus a set of proactive site-health tools most plugins don't include at all: a broken internal link checker, a keyword cannibalization detector, orphan content detection, and a bulk editor for updating SEO fields across many posts or taxonomy terms at once. Every feature works standalone from a clean, built-in admin interface — no external platform account, no API keys, and no AI dependency required. Running a multilingual site with WPML, Polylang, or TranslatePress? The optional Hreflang Health addon audits your existing hreflang setup for broken or duplicate translation links — and it never outputs any tags of its own, so there's no risk of conflicting with what your multilingual plugin already generates. It also stays completely out of the way (no visible option at all) on single-language sites. Core Features Meta Management Write and read SEO title, meta description, and focus keywords for posts, pages, custom post types, and all taxonomies (categories, tags, WooCommerce product categories, etc.). Gutenberg SEO Metabox A 4-tab SEO panel appears in the block editor sidebar for every post and page:

• General — SEO title & description with live SERP preview and character-count indicators; focus keywords with per-keyword scoring.
• Advanced — noindex / nofollow / nosnippet / noimageindex checkboxes; max-snippet and max-image-preview controls; canonical URL field; pillar content toggle.
• Schema — per-post JSON-LD schema type override (Article, BlogPosting, FAQPage, HowTo, Product, LocalBusiness, and more).
• Social — Facebook Open Graph preview with OG title / description / image; Twitter/X Card preview with independent title / description / image fields; all fields fall back to core meta automatically.

Elementor Support A floating, draggable SEO analysis panel appears inside the Elementor editor — same keyword scoring and meta fields, no page reload needed. Content Analysis Real-time scoring for each focus keyword: placement in title, meta description, slug, and headings; content length; image alt text; internal and external links. Each keyword gets an independent green / yellow / red score chip. A sortable SEO Score column also appears on the Posts, Pages, Products, and custom post type list tables. Readability Analysis Flesch Reading Ease, passive voice percentage, long-sentence percentage, paragraph length, transition words, and a title power-word check — independent of the keyword-based SEO score. Auto-detects Greek vs. Latin content and adapts its checks accordingly instead of showing scores that don't apply cross-lingually. Term & Taxonomy SEO SEO title, description, focus keyword, social share image, and noindex control for categories, tags, WooCommerce product categories, and any custom taxonomy — the same coverage posts and pages get. Bulk SEO Editor Edit SEO Title, Meta Description, and Focus Keyword for many posts, pages, or taxonomy terms at once from a single filterable, searchable screen — with a live SEO Score that recomputes after every edit, and a one-click no-index toggle. Keyword Cannibalization Detector Finds published posts competing for the same focus keyword, with an inline editor warning, a dedicated report page, and an admin notice — so you catch it at the moment it happens, not months later in Search Console. Internal Links & Broken Link Checker Finds published pages with zero internal links pointing to them (orphan content), surfaces link suggestions while you write, and separately scans every internal link on your site — including custom fields and WooCommerce product variations — for ones that no longer resolve. Built to stay fast at full catalog scale: incremental background scanning, no full-page rendering, no external requests. WooCommerce Filter & Faceted-Navigation SEO Automatically noindexes and canonicalizes filtered/sorted shop and category URLs (price, attribute, sort order) to prevent duplicate-content and crawl-budget waste from the near-infinite combinations these widgets create — opt-in, off by default. Hreflang Health (Addon) For WPML, Polylang, or TranslatePress sites — audits the translation-link data those plugins use to build their own hreflang tags, flagging broken or duplicate links. Never outputs hreflang tags itself, and stays completely out of the way on single-language sites. XML Sitemap Automatically generates a sitemap index at /sitemap.xml with per-type sub-sitemaps (posts, pages, categories, WooCommerce products and product categories). Supports pagination, image entries (Google image sitemap namespace), and per-post-type exclusions. Toggle each post type and taxonomy independently from the Settings page. Image SEO Addon Automatically fills missing alt text and title attributes on images using configurable token-based format strings (%post_title%, %filename%, %focus_keyword%, etc.). Supports casing rules and find-and-replace rules. Operates on rendered HTML — the database is never modified. Redirections Full CRUD admin UI for managing 301, 302, 307, 410, and 451 redirects stored in the database. Features: search by source or target, filter by type and group, bulk delete, group autocomplete. Redirections fire before WordPress loads any templates — zero overhead. 404 Monitor Logs every 404 hit with URL, referrer, user agent, IP address, and cumulative hit count. Lets you sort by any column, bulk-dismiss entries, and convert any 404 directly into a redirect with one click. JSON-LD Schema Outputs structured data for every page type: WebSite + SearchAction on the homepage, LocalBusiness (with address, geo, opening hours, social profiles), Article / BlogPosting / NewsArticle on posts, WebPage on pages, Product on WooCommerce products, CollectionPage on category archives, and BreadcrumbList on all content pages. Local Business Schema Addon Full Local Business JSON-LD configuration — business name, type (110+ schema.org types in grouped categories), address, phone, email, and logo. IndexNow Automatically pings the IndexNow API (Bing, Yandex) whenever a post is published or updated. Also lets you manually ping any URL or the homepage on demand. LLMs.txt Generates a /llms.txt file following the llmstxt.org specification so AI crawlers can understand your site structure. Post Type & URL Monitor Detects new custom post types registered by newly activated plugins and notifies you in the admin so you can configure their SEO settings. Also monitors URL changes (renamed slugs, trashed or deleted posts) and creates redirects automatically. REST API Every feature is exposed via a versioned REST API at /wp-json/minorank/v1/. Endpoints accept either an X-Minorank-Key header or a standard WordPress admin session — no separate auth plugin needed. Why Minorank SEO?

• No bloat — vanilla PHP and JavaScript, no npm build step, no React dependency for admin pages, loads only on the pages that need it.
• No AI required — every feature works standalone: no API keys to manage, no per-generation costs, no external platform account needed.
• Proactive site health, not just page-level checklists — broken link checking, keyword cannibalization detection, and orphan content detection ship in the free plugin, catching problems most SEO plugins leave to a separate audit tool (or a paid tier).
• Built to stay fast at scale — the broken link checker, internal link graph, and bulk editor all use incremental background scanning and cursor-paginated queries, not full-site re-scans, so they stay usable on stores with tens of thousands of products.
• Data-safe updates — all settings and logs are stored in WordPress options and custom database tables using dbDelta(); plugin updates never wipe your data.
• WooCommerce-aware — product sitemaps, product category schema, WooCommerce detection, and opt-in faceted-navigation SEO built in.
• Standards-compliant — GPL-2.0-or-later, follows WordPress Coding Standards, declare(strict_types=1) throughout.

1. Upload the minorank-seo folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install it via Plugins → Add New in the WordPress admin.
2. Activate the plugin through Plugins → Installed Plugins.
3. Navigate to Minorank SEO → SEO Settings in the admin menu.
4. (Optional) Generate an API key in Settings and use it to authenticate REST API calls from external tools.

On activation the plugin automatically creates two custom database tables (minorank_404s and minorank_redirections) and registers all rewrite rules for sitemaps, LLMs.txt, and IndexNow.

1.6.92

• Fixed: Elementor's sidebar could get stuck on our SEO tab — after editing SEO fields, clicking elsewhere (to select a widget, add a new one, etc.) sometimes did nothing until the page was reloaded. Our SEO panel is a standalone overlay so Elementor's own panel switching doesn't affect its visibility, but the code that hid it again in response to a click was bound to a specific navigation element that Elementor replaces when the panel context changes (e.g. selecting a widget), silently going dead. Now uses a listener that survives those replacements, plus a backup check that force-hides the panel the moment Elementor shows widget-editing tabs.

1.6.91

• Security fix: the main-image detection used by the SEO metabox (Gutenberg, classic editor, and Elementor) called maybe_unserialize() on every public custom field value on a post, which allows unrestricted PHP object instantiation. Any user able to save custom fields (Editor, Author) could store a crafted payload that would run when an admin later opened that post — now uses the same restricted, allowed_classes: false unserialize already used for redirect import data.

1.6.90

• Security fix: the server-to-server API key was being sent to every Minorank admin page (Redirections, 404 Monitor, Schema, Bulk Editor, etc.), not only the Settings page that actually displays it. It now only reaches the browser on the Settings page, reducing what a future unrelated XSS bug on any other admin page could possibly expose.

1.6.89

• Security fix: the server-to-server API key (used by the external Minorank platform integration, and capable of bypassing every per-tool capability check) was being sent to the browser for any user with any Minorank capability, not only administrators. It is now only exposed to users who hold manage_options.
• Security fix: the Bulk Editor's post-content endpoint returned a post or term's raw title/content/slug without checking whether the requesting user could actually edit that specific item.
• Security fix: JSON-LD schema output did not escape </> characters, so a stored value containing </script> could break out of the schema <script> tag and run arbitrary JavaScript for site visitors.
• Fixed: redirects to external domains were silently being sent to the WordPress admin URL instead of their real destination.
• Security fix: the 404 Monitor no longer trusts the attacker-controllable X-Forwarded-For/X-Real-IP headers for the logged visitor IP — only the actual connection IP is used.
• Security fix: Rank Math redirect import now tries JSON decoding before falling back to a hardened unserialize() call (object instantiation disabled), removing a PHP object-injection vector from imported data.
• Fixed: the 404 Monitor's diagnostic trace and log no longer include the site's database name and table prefix, which weren't needed for troubleshooting.

1.6.88

• Fixed: removed a stray .DS_Store file that had been accidentally included in the plugin folder.
• Fixed: several direct database queries had PHPCS suppression comments placed incorrectly, so the intended exemption silently failed to apply on multi-line statements; comments are now correctly scoped so static analysis tools don't flag safe, hardcoded-table queries as unescaped input. No functional or behavioral change — all affected queries already used safe, hardcoded table names or $wpdb->prepare() placeholders.

1.6.87

• Fixed: the Gutenberg "Image alt text contains keyword" check could still report the featured image's alt text as missing even when correctly set, because the check ran once before the image's data had finished loading and never re-checked afterwards. Now reads the featured image fresh on every analysis pass instead of relying on a stale snapshot.

1.6.86

• Fixed: the "Image alt text contains keyword" content-analysis check ignored the featured/main image entirely in Gutenberg and Elementor — it only ever looked at <img> tags inside the post content, so a keyword placed correctly in the main image's alt text (and nowhere else) was reported as missing. The classic editor (used for WooCommerce products and CPTs on the Classic Editor) already checked this correctly; Gutenberg and Elementor now match it, reusing the same main-image resolver that already handles custom-field-based images for CPT builders like JetEngine.

1.6.85

• Security fix: Elementor's native SEO tab (a separate integration not covered by the earlier Role Manager work) had no capability check at all — it preloaded a post's SEO meta for any user who could open Elementor, regardless of their granted on-page capabilities. Also fixed a related regression: legitimately on-page-granted roles were getting 403 errors using that same tab, since its save requests share the /meta endpoint with the Bulk Editor, which had been narrowed to Bulk-Editor-only in the previous update.

1.6.84

• Changed: the Role Manager's single "Edit SEO Meta" capability is now split into 4, matching Rank Math's on-page structure — On-Page General (title/description/focus keyword/analysis), On-Page Advanced (robots/canonical), On-Page Schema, and On-Page Social. A role can now be granted access to specific metabox tabs instead of all-or-nothing. Enforced both in the tab UI (Gutenberg and classic editor) and server-side at save time for every field.

1.6.83

• Security fix: the /meta endpoint (the post/term editor metabox) and three related read-only endpoints (link suggestions, keyword-conflict check, broken-links-for-post) now verify the current user can edit the specific post or term requested, not just that they hold the general "Edit SEO Meta" capability — closes a gap where a role granted that capability could have read or written SEO meta for any post/term site-wide instead of only ones they already have edit rights to.

1.6.82

• Fixed: the Role Manager's "Update Capabilities" button gave no clear confirmation that changes were actually saved — it now shows "✓ Saved" directly on the button for a couple seconds after a successful save.

1.6.81

• Added a Role Manager page — grant specific WordPress roles (Editor, Author, custom roles, etc.) access to individual Minorank SEO tools instead of everything being all-or-nothing behind manage_options. 11 capabilities: SEO Settings, Schema Markup, Redirections, 404 Monitor, Internal Links, Keyword Conflicts, Broken Links, Bulk Editor, SEO Analyzer, Addons, and Edit SEO Meta (the post-editor metabox). Administrator always has full access and can't be changed. Existing installs are unaffected — Administrator automatically retains every capability on update.

1.6.80

• Added a new SEO Analyzer page — an on-demand health check (you click "Run Analysis", nothing runs automatically) with a Rank Math-style score ring, pass/warning/failed progress bars, and an All / Passed Tests / Warnings / Failed Tests tab layout. The last scan is stored and loads instantly on revisit — no re-scan just from opening the page. Two categories: Structure (permalink structure, tagline, search engine visibility, H1/H2 headings, title/description length, image ALT attributes, canonical tag, noindex meta, OpenGraph meta) and Site Health, which reuses real, site-wide data from Broken Links, Internal Links, Keyword Conflicts, and Redirections instead of shallow homepage-only re-checks.

1.6.76

• Fixed: the Bulk Editor listed Elementor's internal template-library items (footer, header, popups, the site's Default Kit) alongside real content — these are now excluded, since they're never pages a site owner would want SEO meta on.

1.6.75

• Changed: Local Business Schema now defaults to OFF for fresh installs instead of being enabled automatically. Sites that already had real business data configured are unaffected (a migration preserves their existing enabled state).
• Fixed: the Broken Links checker flagged working /wp-content/ links (uploaded PDFs, images, theme/plugin assets) as broken, since those are direct file paths rather than post permalinks and can never resolve via url_to_postid(). Now verified against the actual file on disk instead.

1.6.74

• Added a 404 Monitor settings card: a master on/off switch for logging, and a retention setting (default 90 days, 0 = forever) that auto-purges stale entries daily via cron — prevents unbounded log growth on large or heavily-scanned sites.

1.6.73

• Fixed: the Gutenberg editor's Social Share Image field showed "No image selected" even when a featured image was set, instead of previewing it as the automatic default (the classic editor and the actual front-end output already did this correctly — only the Gutenberg sidebar was missing it).

1.6.72

• Added taxonomy term counts to the Quick Import status ("N taxonomy terms, N already have Minorank SEO data") and to the Rank Math/Yoast import buttons, alongside the existing post counts — confirms custom post types and custom taxonomies are already fully covered by the import, not just built-in posts/pages.

1.6.71

• Added a warning notice when another SEO plugin (Rank Math, Yoast, All in One SEO, SEOPress, or The SEO Framework) is active alongside Minorank SEO, since running two SEO plugins at once causes duplicate meta tags and conflicting sitemaps/schema.

1.6.70

• Fixed: the redirect target picker's search queried all post types (and all taxonomies) under one shared result limit, so a large product catalog could crowd Pages/Posts (or regular categories/tags) out of the results entirely. Each post type and taxonomy now gets its own slice of results.

1.6.69

• Added a searchable target picker to the redirect Target URL field — search your site's own pages, posts, products (by title or SKU), and other post types, plus taxonomy terms, grouped by type, and click a result to fill in its real URL.

1.6.68

• Fixed: adding a redirect source that already exists now clearly explains why it wasn't created (showing the target it already redirects to) instead of a vague partial-success count.
• Added a redirect health check — detects redirect loops (including self-redirects) and redirect chains, with a one-click scan from the Redirections page.
• Added an Import & Migration addon consolidating all import tools in one place: a Quick Import (one click) for SEO meta and redirects from Rank Math or Yoast, plus CSV import with your own column mapping for meta and for redirects — so exports from any other SEO plugin can be brought in, not just Rank Math/Yoast.
• Added Rank Math redirect import — brings in active, exact-match redirects with automatic conflict/duplicate detection.
• Removed the old standalone "Import from another SEO plugin" section from Settings and the standalone Rank Math redirect import button from Redirections, both now folded into the Import & Migration addon.

1.6.63

• Added Hreflang Health (Addon) for WPML, Polylang, and TranslatePress sites — audits the translation-link data those plugins already use to build their own hreflang tags, flagging broken links (pointing at a deleted/trashed page) and duplicate-language entries within a translation group. Never generates or outputs any hreflang tags itself, avoiding duplicate/conflicting tags — and stays completely hidden on single-language sites rather than showing as a disabled option.
• Removed the AI Meta Generator (post editor "Generate with AI" button and its REST endpoint) — AI-assisted meta generation is now exclusively available through a Minorank platform subscription, and the free plugin no longer makes any direct calls to a third-party AI API.
• Added taxonomy term support (categories, tags, custom taxonomies) to the Bulk SEO Editor, alongside posts and pages — including a live SEO Score for terms, computed against the term description.
• Added bulk-select-to-ignore (with select-all and a bulk action bar) to the Internal Links and Broken Links report pages.
• Fixed: robots/noindex meta was never output on taxonomy archive pages, even when explicitly set.

1.6.61

• Added a Broken Link Checker — scans every internal link on your site (post content, WooCommerce product variations, and any custom field containing a real link) for URLs that no longer resolve to a published page. No external requests; safe at full catalog scale via incremental background scanning. Surfaced in a dedicated report page and inline in the post editor.
• Added a Keyword Cannibalization Detector — finds published posts competing for the same focus keyword, with an inline editor warning, a report page, and an admin notice.
• Added the Bulk SEO Editor — edit SEO Title, Meta Description, and Focus Keyword for many posts at once, with a live-recomputed SEO Score and a one-click no-index toggle.
• Added a sortable SEO Score column to the Posts, Pages, Products, and custom post type list tables.
• Added WooCommerce filter/faceted-navigation SEO (opt-in, off by default): automatically noindexes and canonicalizes filtered/sorted shop and category URLs to prevent duplicate-content and crawl-budget waste.
• Added real-time Link Suggestions in the post editor — surfaces related, unlinked pages while writing.
• Added an "Internal Links" report page — finds published pages with zero internal links pointing to them.
• Added Content & Title Readability analysis (Flesch Reading Ease, passive voice, sentence/paragraph length, transition words), with Greek-language support.
• Added per-type Schema readiness badges, FAQPage auto-extraction and manual entry, and Merchant Listing schema fixes (return policy, GTIN, delivery time).
• Security: fixed broken per-object authorization on registered post/term meta that allowed any user with a generic edit capability to read Minorank SEO meta for any post/term via WordPress core's REST API; fixed CSV/formula injection in exports; switched API key comparisons to constant-time; removed the URL query-parameter fallback for API key auth.
• Numerous UX fixes found via live testing: admin notice positioning, list-table column registration timing, classic-editor parity for the SEO Score column, WooCommerce Cart/My Account false-positive broken links, and more.

1.6.16

• Fixed: the 404 Monitor admin page always showed "No 404 errors logged" even when 404s were being logged correctly — the page requested more rows per page than the REST API allowed, and the resulting validation error was silently treated as an empty list.
• Added a "Run Diagnostics" tool to the 404 Monitor page that verifies the log table, database writes, and the most recent real request, to make this class of issue self-diagnosable in the future.
• Fixed: the "Total Hits" stat on the 404 Monitor page concatenated hit counts as text instead of summing them (a JavaScript string-vs-number bug that also silently broke sorting by the Hits column).
• Fixed: long URLs in the 404 Monitor table could overflow the layout.
• Added CSV export to both 404 Monitor and Redirections — exports the full log/list (not capped at what's on screen, and not capped at Search Console's 1,000-row export limit).
• Added a "Hide bot/system noise" filter to 404 Monitor that excludes common vulnerability-scanner probes and browser auto-requests (favicon, touch icons) from the view and CSV export.
• Added bulk redirect creation: select multiple 404 entries and redirect them all to the same target URL in one action; the selected entries are automatically cleared from the 404 log afterward.

1.6.9

• Added Term & Taxonomy SEO: title, description, focus keyword, and social share image fields on category/tag/custom taxonomy edit screens, with a taxonomy picker in a new Term & Taxonomy SEO settings card.
• Added a taxonomy monitor (mirrors the existing post type monitor) that detects newly registered taxonomies — e.g. from JetEngine or other CPT builders — and surfaces them in the SEO Alerts banner.
• Added a classic (non-block-editor) meta box for post types that don't use the Gutenberg editor — WooCommerce Products and many CPT-builder post types previously had no SEO fields at all. Includes the same 4-tab layout (General/Advanced/Schema/Social), full SEO analysis engine, multi-keyword scoring, SERP preview, and automatic main-image detection as the Gutenberg sidebar.
• Fixed: per-post Schema type override was saved but never actually output — schema output now correctly respects it.
• Fixed: schema output only worked for posts, pages, and products — any other post type got no schema at all, regardless of settings.
• Schema types are now multi-select (e.g. Product + FAQPage on the same page) instead of single-select.
• Added automatic suppression of WooCommerce's native Product schema when Minorank SEO outputs its own, avoiding duplicate/conflicting structured data.
• Enriched Product schema with SKU, brand (via a configurable taxonomy), real WooCommerce review data (aggregateRating), and multiple images.
• Added optional shipping cost and return policy settings (WooCommerce SEO addon) that populate Google's shippingDetails/hasMerchantReturnPolicy schema fields.
• Added Custom Field Mapping (new Schema Markup settings page) so Product schema pricing can be read automatically from an existing custom field on non-WooCommerce post types (e.g. a Cars CPT), instead of manual re-entry per post.
• Added a dedicated "Schema Markup" page in the admin menu, split out of the general SEO Settings page.
• Fixed a broken internal/external link detection regex that failed to match ordinary <a href="..."> markup, affecting SEO score accuracy across the block editor, classic editor, and Elementor content analysis.
• Frontend meta description now falls back to the post excerpt when no explicit description is set, instead of omitting the tag.

1.6.8

• Fixed Anthropic Terms of Service URL — corrected to https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms (previous link returned 404).

1.6.7

• Fixed Anthropic Terms of Service link in readme — corrected from AUP to commercial terms.

1.6.6

• Security: removed JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES from both JSON-LD script tag outputs — forward slashes are now escaped to \/ preventing any </script> sequence in stored data from breaking out of the script tag.
• Added fotibout to contributors list.
• Removed screenshot assets from plugin zip (uploaded separately via SVN per WP.org guidelines).

1.6.5

• Plugin Check: switched all multi-line DB query blocks from phpcs:ignore to phpcs:disable/phpcs:enable — phpcs:ignore only covers one line, so PreparedSQL.NotPrepared and InterpolatedNotPrepared were still firing on inner string-concatenation lines inside multi-line prepare() calls (404, redirections, sitemap classes).
• Plugin Check: suppressed NonceVerification.Recommended on REST API key fallback ($_GET['mnrk_key']) — intentional, nonce-free API key auth.
• Plugin Check: suppressed Squiz.DiscouragedFunctions for @set_time_limit(300) in bulk importer — required for long-running operations.
• Plugin Check: suppressed VIP WPQueryParams.PostNotIn performance warnings on sitemap exclusion lists — standard feature, not a VIP host.
• Plugin Check: added inline phpcs:ignore for $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] in 404 monitor current_url().
• Trimmed readme short description to 140 characters (WP.org limit is 150).

1.6.4

• Plugin Check: fixed remaining PreparedSQL.NotPrepared errors — added correct phpcs:ignore to all queries using string-concatenated class constants (. self::TABLE .) in 404, redirections, and sitemap classes.
• Plugin Check: replaced PHP native parse_url() with WordPress wrapper wp_parse_url() in redirections normalizer.
• Plugin Check: added phpcs:ignore for $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] in redirect handler (used only for path comparison, never for output).
• Plugin Check: replaced (int) cast with absint() in Elementor enqueue so PHPCS recognises it as sanitization.
• Updated "Tested up to: 7.0".

1.6.3

• Plugin Check: fixed all EscapeOutput errors — printf in SEO alerts notice now uses wp_kses_post() on the detail HTML and esc_html() on all string slots.
• Plugin Check: fixed global variable names in uninstall.php — all top-level variables now prefixed with minorank_ per WordPress coding standards.
• Plugin Check: fixed $_SERVER input handling in 404 monitor — wp_unslash() now called at point of read for all server variables.
• Plugin Check: fixed $_GET unslash in content analysis Elementor enqueue.
• Plugin Check: sanitized $_GET/$_SERVER in REST API check_permission().
• Plugin Check: added missing phpcs:ignore comments for PreparedSQL.NotPrepared on table-name-only COUNT queries in 404, redirections, and sitemap classes.
• Plugin Check: added missing phpcs:ignore on postmeta direct queries in import handler.
• Plugin Check: changed wp_redirect() to wp_safe_redirect() in redirections handler.
• Plugin Check: updated "Tested up to" to WordPress 6.8.
• Created languages/ directory to match Domain Path plugin header.

1.6.2

• Redirections: fixed "Select all" checkbox appearing oversized — .mn-filter-bar input CSS now excludes [type=checkbox] so the min-width rule no longer inflates it.

1.6.1

• Import: import section now auto-hides after a successful migration and only reappears if "Reset import data" is clicked.
• Redirections: fixed inconsistent column widths across accordion groups by switching to table-layout:fixed with explicit header widths.
• Redirections: fixed oversized "Select all" and row checkboxes; changed edit button to plain text "Edit" for consistent rendering.
• 404 Monitor: fixed hit counts always displaying 1 — SQL query now aliases hit_count as hits to match the JavaScript field name.
• 404 Monitor: raised per-page cap from 100 to 500 entries.

1.6.0

• Added WooCommerce SEO addon — remove product base, remove category base, remove parent slugs, remove generator tag, remove schema on shop archives, and select brand taxonomy. Addon card is disabled when WooCommerce is not active.
• SEO alerts notice: "View Details" now expands an accordion inline in the admin notice showing the full list of new post types and URL changes — no page navigation required.
• Added uninstall.php — cleans up all plugin options and drops custom tables on uninstall.

1.5.8

• Sitemap: replaced Exclude Posts and Exclude Terms text inputs with a searchable multi-select picker — click to browse all posts or terms, search to filter, select by clicking, or add any ID manually.
• REST API: /search-posts and /search-terms endpoints now return up to 50 results when called without parameters (for initial dropdown population).

1.5.7

• Sitemap: added pagination support — large sites generate multiple sub-sitemaps (e.g. sitemap-posts-2.xml).
• Sitemap: added image sitemap support — <image:image> entries added to each URL using the Google image sitemap namespace.
• Sitemap: added "Include Featured Images" toggle to include featured images even when not embedded in post content.
• Sitemap: added "Images in Sitemaps" master toggle.
• Sitemap: added "Links Per Sitemap" control (default 1000).
• Sitemap: added Exclude Posts and Exclude Terms ID fields to remove specific entries from sitemaps.
• REST API: added /search-posts and /search-terms endpoints for sitemap exclude pickers.

1.5.6

• Local Business addon: expanded business type list to 110+ schema.org LocalBusiness subtypes across 13 optgroups.

1.5.5

• Admin: save buttons now show a spinner while the request is in flight.
• Admin: success/error messages after saving now persist until page navigation (no auto-dismiss).

1.5.4

• Image SEO addon: added token-based alt/title format system — %post_title%, %filename%, %focus_keyword%, %attachment_title%, %site_name%, %category%, and %sep% separator token.
• Image SEO addon: added token picker UI with searchable dropdown and insert-at-cursor.
• Image SEO addon: added separator field used between non-empty token segments.

1.5.3

• Added Addons page (Minorank SEO → Addons) with toggleable addon cards.
• Image SEO settings moved from SEO Settings to the Addons page.
• Local Business Schema settings moved from SEO Settings to the Addons page.

1.5.2

• Image SEO: added find-and-replace rules for alt and title text.
• Image SEO: added casing options (lowercase, UPPERCASE, Title Case) for alt and title independently.
• Image SEO: added avatar alt text support via pre_get_avatar_data filter.

1.5.1

• Image SEO: added wp_get_attachment_image_attributes filter for block editor images, galleries, and thumbnails.
• Image SEO: added add-missing-alt and add-missing-title toggles with configurable fallback format.

1.5.0

• Added Image SEO addon (class-image-seo.php) — automatically fills missing alt and title attributes on images using resolved format strings. Database is never modified; operates on rendered HTML only.

1.4.1

• SEO alerts: clustered post type and URL change alerts into a single admin notice instead of separate notices.
• Import: fixed import status response not returning correctly on partial imports.

1.4.0

• Added post type monitor (class-post-type-monitor.php) — detects newly registered custom post types and shows an admin notice.
• Added URL monitor (class-url-monitor.php) — detects renamed slugs and trashed/deleted posts; creates redirects automatically.

1.3.0

• Settings UI: replaced AI settings panel with a subscription promo card (AI generation still available via REST API).
• Schema: WooCommerce schema options hidden when WooCommerce is not active.

1.2.4

• Admin: added standalone three-page admin interface (SEO Settings, Redirections, 404 Monitor) — no external platform required.
• Redirections UI: search by source/target, filter by type and group, bulk delete, paginated fetch, group name autocomplete.
• 404 Monitor UI: stat cards, sortable columns, bulk dismiss, one-click "Create Redirect" action.
• Settings UI: Save All button with data-loss guard; API key auto-tested on every page load.
• REST API: check_permission() is now public.

1.2.3

• Schema: output_schema() reads per-content-type schema type from settings; configurable from the Settings page.
• REST API: check_permission() accepts both API key and logged-in WP admin sessions.
• Sitemap: WooCommerce product and product_cat sub-sitemaps respect enabled toggles correctly.

1.2.2

• IndexNow: manual URL ping field and homepage ping button added to Settings.
• Sitemap: each enabled sub-sitemap shows its URL inline for easy copying.
• Settings: WooCommerce section conditionally shown only when WooCommerce is active.

1.2.1

• Content analysis: multiple focus keywords scored independently — each keyword gets its own green/yellow/red chip.
• Meta: focus keywords persisted to _minorank_focus_keywords post meta.

1.2.0

• Meta: added 13 new _minorank_* meta fields (robots, canonical, OG, Twitter, schema type, pillar flag).
• Output: emits robots meta, canonical link, full Open Graph tags, and Twitter Card tags.
• Gutenberg: new 4-tab SEO sidebar (General / Advanced / Schema / Social).

1.1.9

• Content analysis: keyword input replaced with tag/chip input — press Enter to add, × to remove.
• Content analysis: each keyword chip colored by SEO score.

1.1.7

• Added Elementor editor support via floating draggable content analysis panel.

1.1.6

• Added block editor content analysis sidebar.

1.1.5

• Schema: configurable per-content-type schema via output_schema().

1.1.2

• Redirections: added group_name column; extended type support to 307, 410, 451.

1.1.0

• Added XML sitemap generator, /llms.txt endpoint, IndexNow integration, and JSON-LD schema output.

1.0.0

• Initial release — REST API, meta management, 404 monitor, redirections, admin settings.