Sondy

Sondy adds provider and location directory shortcodes to your WordPress site, powered by the Sondy API. Display searchable provider and location listings, detail pages, and pretty URL rewrites. SEO built in Every provider and location gets its own indexable URL (for example /providers/jane-doe/) with:

• Its own title, meta description and canonical URL.
• Open Graph and Twitter card tags using the provider or location photo.
• Schema.org JSON-LD for the provider or location, linked to a ProfilePage / WebPage and a BreadcrumbList.
• An entry in the XML sitemap, including the profile photo.

Works with All in One SEO, Yoast SEO and Rank Math When All in One SEO, Yoast SEO or Rank Math is active, Sondy hands its data to that plugin instead of printing its own tags, so each page has exactly one title, description, canonical, set of social tags and schema graph. Provider and location URLs are added to the SEO plugin's sitemap (All in One SEO page sitemap, or /pd-providers-sitemap.xml listed in the Yoast / Rank Math sitemap index) and to its breadcrumbs. Without an SEO plugin, Sondy prints the equivalent tags itself and adds a WordPress core sitemap. Shortcodes

• [powr_providers] – provider directory and provider profiles on one page.
• [powr_provider_directory] / [powr_provider_detail] – provider directory and profile separately.
• [powr_locations] – location directory and location profiles on one page.
• [powr_location_directory] / [powr_location_detail] – location directory and profile separately.
• [powr_provider_card slug="jane-doe-dc"] – one linked provider card, for service pages and blog posts.

1.10.0

• Maintenance release so sites already on 1.9.9 receive this update (SVN tags are immutable; the version had to move forward to trigger the update check).

1.9.9

• Directory: print provider and location data with the shortcode so the listing keeps its cards when a page builder drops the script data.

1.9.8

• Sitemap: include every location, not only providers.
• Schema: disable AIOSEO schema on provider, location, and directory routes so one graph is printed.
• Schema: stop rewriting the page type to ProfilePage.
• Schema: log a skip reason when a resolved page prints nothing.
• SEO: titles use the organization and city; credentials lose stray periods.
• Location pages: format the fax number the same way as the phone.
• Sitemap: lastmod uses the record updatedAt, and images stay on cdn.sondy.io only.

1.9.7

• Schema: render-only emitter — Laravel owns schemaDocument; WordPress validates schemaContract/publishable and prints via wp_head.
• Schema: stop reconstructing provider/location/directory JSON-LD in class-seo (title/canonical/OG only).
• Schema: admin debug HTML comments with ?powr_schema_debug=1 (manage_options); heartbeat on enter/skip/success so silence means gate failed or wp_head never ran.
• WebPage (never ProfilePage); directory CollectionPage+ItemList from API meta; sitemap CDN-only images.

1.9.6

• SEO: the provider directory gets a generated title and meta description (only when the page has no custom SEO title or description), with matching share tags.
• SEO: the provider directory is a CollectionPage whose ItemList links every profile in display order, about the practice (clinic) entity, merged into All in One SEO's schema graph.
• SEO: filtered or re-sorted directory URLs (?pd_specialty=…, ?pd_search=…) are noindex,follow.
• SEO: directory card photos link to the profile, in addition to the name and "View Profile".
• SEO: provider profiles show a visible Home › Providers › Name breadcrumb (filter powr_dir_show_breadcrumb to turn it off).
• SEO / AI search: content is no longer hidden by the loading overlay or while styles load when JavaScript is off, so non-JavaScript crawlers see it.
• Privacy: gender is no longer output in schema or shown as a profile badge; it remains a directory filter.
• Yoast SEO and Rank Math: title, description, canonical, social tags, breadcrumbs and schema go through their filters (one merged graph), and profiles are listed in /pd-providers-sitemap.xml, added to their sitemap index.
• Internal links: profiles link to up to three other providers (same location or specialty first).
• Internal links: new "Service & Condition Links" setting links matching services and conditions to the site's pages.
• New [powr_provider_card slug="…"] shortcode embeds a linked provider card.
• Performance: provider photos have width and height to avoid layout shift.

1.9.5

• Fix: fatal error on PHP 7.4 (PHP 8-only syntax in schema and rewrite code).
• SEO: every provider and location URL now has its own canonical URL instead of the host page's.
• SEO: generated title and meta description when none is set in Sondy.
• SEO: Open Graph and Twitter card tags with the profile photo.
• SEO: JSON-LD is linked to a ProfilePage / WebPage and BreadcrumbList.
• SEO: provider and location URLs are added to the XML sitemap (All in One SEO or WordPress core).
• SEO: profile pages without a slug are marked noindex.
• SEO / AI search: provider and location directory cards are rendered in the page HTML (not only by JavaScript), with crawlable pagination links, so search and AI crawlers can reach every profile.
• Markup: section sub-titles are real headings (h3), the plugin no longer outputs a second element, image alt text includes credentials, the hero image loads with high priority and gallery images lazy-load. Visual styling is unchanged.
• All in One SEO integration: title, description, canonical, social tags, breadcrumbs, schema and sitemap go through All in One SEO filters, so no tags are duplicated.
• Uninstall now removes plugin options and cached API responses.
• Readme: document external services.

1.9.4

• Plugin Directory review: set Contributors to innovagroup; escape JSON-LD to prevent script-tag breakout.

1.9.3

• Plugin Check compliance: license header, readme, escaping and naming conventions.