StoreHelper Kit – AI & SEO WooCommerce Toolkit (llms.txt, ALT text, bulk pricing, cleanup)

StoreHelper Kit is the most comprehensive maintenance and optimization suite designed specifically for WooCommerce store owners and developers. Stop juggling dozens of single-purpose plugins—StoreHelper Kit brings all the essential tools you need into one beautiful, unified dashboard. Whether you are managing a small boutique or a massive catalog with thousands of products, StoreHelper Kit saves you hours of manual work every week. From AI-powered SEO generation to bulk price updates and database cleanup, we've got you covered. 🚀 Key Features

• Unified Dashboard: Access all tools from a single, modern, and responsive interface.
• AI-Powered Automation: Leverage OpenAI to generate SEO-optimized ALT texts, product descriptions (coming soon), and tags.
• AI Discovery Ready: Ship llms.txt and llms-full.txt to guide ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity to your key URLs.
• Bulk Operations: Update prices, delete products, and clean up unused media in seconds.
• Smart Filtering: Quickly find the tools you need with our categorized and searchable navigation.

🛠️ Available Tools 🧠 AI & SEO Tools

• Image Alt Text Generator (AI)
• Automatically generate descriptive, SEO-friendly ALT text for your product images.
• Uses OpenAI Vision API to analyze the actual image content.
• Considers your product context (Focus Keywords, Meta Descriptions) for maximum SEO impact.
• New in 3.0: Real-time progress tracking and improved error handling.
• LLMs.txt Generator (AI, SEO)
• Publishes llms.txt and llms-full.txt for AI crawlers with curated URLs, titles, and descriptions.
• Honors Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO noindex rules.
• Auto-regenerates on your schedule (manual, daily, weekly) with optional bot hit logging for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot.

📦 Product Management

• Bulk Price Updater
• Run flash sales or global price adjustments with ease.
• Filter by Category, Attribute, or Price Range.
• Increase or decrease prices by fixed amounts or percentages.
• Supports Variable Products and scheduled price changes.
• Bulk Product Delete
• Clean up your catalog by mass-deleting products.
• Filter by Category, Stock Status (e.g., Out of Stock), or Price.
• Option: Automatically delete associated images to free up server space.
• Auto Cross-Sells
• Boost your Average Order Value (AOV) automatically.
• Generates Cross-sell and Up-sell links between products in the same category.
• Randomized linking ensures diverse product exposure.

🎨 Design & Navigation

• Structured Menu Builder
• Turn your WooCommerce Category tree into a WordPress Menu in one click.
• Preserves parent-child hierarchy perfectly.
• Ideal for stores with hundreds of categories where manual menu creation is impossible.
• Filter Builder
• Create AJAX-powered attribute filters for your shop sidebar.
• Select top attributes (Color, Size, Brand) and customize their labels.
• Improves customer navigation and conversion rates.
• Brand Image Finder
• Automatically fetch brand logos using SeekLogo and Clearbit APIs.
• Assigns logos to your product attribute terms (e.g., "Nike", "Adidas").
• Keeps your brand filters looking professional.

🧹 Cleanup & Maintenance

• Unused Media Cleaner
• Scan your Media Library for "orphan" images not attached to any post or product.
• Safely delete unused files to reduce backup size and improve site speed.
• Category Level Deleter
• Prune your category tree by deleting specific levels (e.g., "Delete all 3rd-level subcategories").
• Perfect for restructuring imported catalogs.

🔜 Coming Soon (Roadmap) We are constantly adding new tools. Here is what's coming next:

• AI Image to Description: Generate full product descriptions from images.
• Abandoned Cart Lite: Recover lost sales with email reminders.
• Watermark Applier: Protect your product images in bulk.
• Shop Manager: Advanced product management dashboard.

= 3.4.0 = (05.03.2026)

• NEW: AI SEO Tags Generator – automatically generate meta titles and descriptions using OpenAI with Yoast SEO and Rank Math support.
• NEW: Duplicate Finder – scan for duplicate products by SKU or title, preview and merge duplicates with one click.
• NEW: Order Cleaner – bulk delete old or cancelled orders with status/date filters, batch processing, and dry run preview.
• NEW: REST API – full REST API under storehelper-kit/v1 namespace for automation and external integrations.
• NEW: WP-CLI support – run tools from command line with wp storehelper commands (info, tools, stats, alt, duplicates, clean-orders, history, settings, cache).
• NEW: Dashboard Widget – quick stats widget in WordPress admin dashboard showing product counts, orders, and media stats.
• NEW: Helper functions library – caching, rate limiting, operation history/undo, export/import settings, notifications (Telegram/Slack/Email).
• Improved: Performance caching for tool metadata with transients.
• Improved: Rate limiting for OpenAI API calls to prevent quota issues.
• Fixed: Typo in PromoPilot links (propmopilot.link → promopilot.link). = 3.3.0 = (29.01.2026)
• CRITICAL FIX: ALT text generator now processes images reliably - fixed issue where background processing would not start or stop unexpectedly.
• Fix: Added spawn_cron() call to force immediate cron execution when starting ALT generation.
• Fix: Improved queue processing with proper locking mechanism to prevent concurrent execution issues.
• Fix: Auto-trigger processing now fires every 4 seconds reliably while user has the tool open (replaced unreliable random trigger).
• Fix: Reduced batch size from 5 to 3 images per batch to prevent timeouts on slower servers.
• NEW: Real-time progress display showing recently processed images with their generated ALT texts.
• NEW: Smart language detection - uses global language setting from Settings, or auto-detects language from page content (Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, etc.).
• NEW: Enhanced progress popup with live results feed, language indicator, and visual feedback.
• Improved: Better error handling and logging during ALT text generation with last 5 errors stored in status.
• Improved: First batch now processes immediately after starting for instant feedback.
• Improved: Queue now properly clears scheduled hooks before rescheduling to avoid duplicates.
• Improved: Completion state now shows "Completed!" message before page reload. = 3.2.1 = (18.12.2025)
• Fix: llms.txt activation toggle now stays saved because the enable switch is submitted with the rest of the form. = 3.2 = (13.12.2025)
• New: LLMs.txt Generator tool to publish llms.txt and llms-full.txt for AI crawlers with SEO plugin aware exclusions.
• Added: Optional AI bot hit logging and scheduled regeneration (manual/daily/weekly).
• Added: SEO badge/tag for the llms.txt tool; version bump to 3.2.
• Added: SEO filters/badges in dashboard + sidebar, improved llms.txt rewrite handling to avoid 404s, auto-cache warmup, and wildcard exclusions for llms.txt.
• Added: On/off toggle to disable llms.txt serving and pause cron regeneration when needed. = 3.0 = (25.11.2025)
• Major Update: Redesigned Admin UI with a modern, card-based dashboard.
• New: Added "Support" and "Settings" quick access buttons.
• New: Smart API Key detection – see instantly which AI tools are ready to use.
• New: Dashboard Filters – toggle between All, AI, and Setup Required tools.
• Improved: Enhanced attribute-stats.php stability and JSON response handling.
• Improved: Better error handling for AI generation tasks.
• Added: Detailed documentation and tool descriptions. = 2.6 = (07.08.2025)
• Improved: ALT Text Generator now runs sequential per-image requests via AJAX to avoid timeouts/HTTP2 protocol issues and provide a smoother experience.
• Added: Real-time progress modal with success/error counters and a live log of operations.
• Added: Robust error logging to wp-content/uploads/storehelper-logs/alt_text_generator.log with fallback to wp-content/alt_text_generator.log.
• Improved: Clean JSON responses and stricter nonce validation to prevent mixed admin HTML in responses and to surface clear error messages.
• Improved: Keyword handling — when no focus keyword is available, ALT is generated from image and page context without failing.
• UI: Refined filters layout, compact modal, textarea for ALT, sticky actions bar, and a per-page selector with working pagination.
• Fix: Eliminated sporadic 400 Bad Request cases by routing same-page POSTs and cleaning output buffers before returning JSON. = 2.5 = (03.08.2025)
• New: AI Alt Text Generator for images — analyzes page content and the image itself to produce natural, keyword‑aware ALT attributes.
• New: Structured Menu Builder — instantly builds a full navigation tree from all WooCommerce categories, preserving hierarchy; scales to 100s and 1,000s of categories.
• Integration: OpenAI for ALT generation (requires your API key).

2.3

• Enforced mandatory nonce validation for dashboard tool selection to prevent CSRF.
• Added 'nonceDashboard' field to the localized script in storehelper_kit_admin_assets() for secure AJAX requests.
• Removed legacy nonce check block and ensured early termination on missing or invalid nonce in storehelper_kit_admin_dashboard().

2.2

• Added deep sanitization of the attributes array in the attribute statistics tool using sanitize_text_field( wp_unslash( ... ) ).
• Corrected use of the variable for limiting displayed attributes instead of insecure direct reading from.
• Added a nonce check (storehelper_kit_dashboard_nonce) in storehelper_kit_admin_dashboard() to prevent CSRF.

2.1

• Replaced external placeholder URL with local logo-placeholder.jpg.
• Documented SeekLogo and Clearbit services with separate Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links.
• Added ABSPATH guard to prevent direct file access in plugin PHP files.
• Implemented nonce and current_user_can() checks for all AJAX handlers and form submissions.
• Sanitized, validated, and escaped all incoming and outgoing data.
• Replaced unsafe SQL calls with get_posts() (WP_Query) for secure database interactions.
• Renamed generic option names to unique prefixes (e.g., storehelperkit_widget_...).

2.0

• Major overhaul: refactored all tools for better performance and security.
• Added support for PHP 8.1+ and modern WordPress APIs.
• Improved i18n compliance and sanitized all inputs/outputs.
• Updated readme, documentation, and screenshots.

1.9

• Fixed price update batching bug.
• Added nonce verification to all AJAX actions.
• Enhanced filters in attribute statistics tool.

1.8

• Initial public release.