live-page results stored locally as product metadata<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nNo Wizehawk account or Wizehawk cloud service is required for manual scanning. The plugin does use the external services disclosed below for crawler verification and optional licensing\/usage services.<\/p>\n\n
Privacy and activity monitoring<\/h3>\n\n
AI activity monitoring is disabled by default. An administrator must explicitly enable it in Store Discovery Audit > Settings<\/strong> before real crawler\/referral activity is recorded.<\/p>\n\nWhen monitoring is enabled, the plugin stores recognized event type\/source, requested path, related WooCommerce product ID (when applicable), verification result, and event time in the site's own WordPress database. Visitor IP addresses are never stored. User-agent strings and referrer URLs are used only during the current request to recognize a supported crawler\/referral and are not stored.<\/p>\n\n
For supported crawlers, the visitor IP is compared locally against official published crawler IP ranges. The visitor IP is not sent to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Perplexity by this plugin.<\/p>\n\n
External services<\/h3>\n\n
This plugin uses the following external services. These requests are limited to the purposes described here.<\/p>\n\n
OpenAI<\/h4>\n\n
For recognized OpenAI crawler requests, the plugin may download OpenAI's publicly published crawler IP-range JSON files so it can verify the crawler locally.<\/p>\n\n
Data sent: a normal HTTPS request from the WordPress server to OpenAI's published JSON endpoint. The request identifies this plugin in its user-agent. No WooCommerce product data, visitor IP address, referrer URL, or visitor user-agent is sent by the plugin.<\/p>\n\n
When: only when verification is needed for a recognized supported OpenAI crawler and a cached list is not available.<\/p>\n\n
Terms: https:\/\/openai.com\/policies\/terms-of-use\/\nPrivacy: https:\/\/openai.com\/policies\/privacy-policy\/<\/p>\n\n
Anthropic \/ Claude<\/h4>\n\n
For recognized Anthropic\/Claude crawler requests, the plugin may download Anthropic's publicly published crawler IP-range JSON file so it can verify the crawler locally.<\/p>\n\n
Data sent: a normal HTTPS request from the WordPress server to Anthropic's published JSON endpoint. The request identifies this plugin in its user-agent. No WooCommerce product data, visitor IP address, referrer URL, or visitor user-agent is sent by the plugin.<\/p>\n\n
When: only when verification is needed for a recognized supported Anthropic crawler and a cached list is not available.<\/p>\n\n
Terms: https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/legal\/consumer-terms\nPrivacy: https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/legal\/privacy<\/p>\n\n
Perplexity<\/h4>\n\n
For recognized Perplexity crawler requests, the plugin may download Perplexity's publicly published crawler IP-range JSON files so it can verify the crawler locally.<\/p>\n\n
Data sent: a normal HTTPS request from the WordPress server to Perplexity's published JSON endpoint. The request identifies this plugin in its user-agent. No WooCommerce product data, visitor IP address, referrer URL, or visitor user-agent is sent by the plugin.<\/p>\n\n
When: only when verification is needed for a recognized supported Perplexity crawler and a cached list is not available.<\/p>\n\n
Terms: https:\/\/www.perplexity.ai\/hub\/legal\/terms-of-service\nPrivacy: https:\/\/www.perplexity.ai\/hub\/legal\/privacy-policy<\/p>\n\n
Freemius<\/h4>\n\n
This plugin uses the Freemius SDK for optional usage analytics, upgrade\/checkout links, licensing, and paid add-on management.<\/p>\n\n
On activation, Freemius presents an opt-in choice before optional usage data is shared. If the administrator opts in, Freemius may receive site\/admin and environment information such as the administrator name\/email, site URL, WordPress\/PHP\/plugin versions, and diagnostic environment information. If the administrator skips the opt-in, optional usage analytics are not sent.<\/p>\n\n
When a paid add-on is purchased or a license is activated\/managed, the information needed for checkout, licensing, account management, and updates is sent to Freemius as part of that requested operation.<\/p>\n\n
Terms: https:\/\/freemius.com\/terms\/\nPrivacy: https:\/\/freemius.com\/privacy\/<\/p>\n\n
Free and Pro<\/h3>\n\n
The Free version provides the complete manual AI-commerce audit: manual store scans, crawler\/discovery checks, product readiness, AI-readable Product JSON-LD checks, live-page testing, basic 7-day AI activity counts, and the three most recent scan summaries.<\/p>\n\n
Pro adds automatic daily scans, regression monitoring, hosted email alerts, longer scan history and automatic comparisons, bulk product fixes, and advanced AI activity reporting.<\/p>\n\n
How to upgrade to Pro<\/h3>\n\n
Store Discovery Audit Pro is a separate add-on plugin. Keep the Free plugin installed and active.<\/p>\n\n
\n- Open Store Discovery Audit<\/strong> and click Upgrade to Pro<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
- Choose the yearly plan and finish checkout.<\/li>\n
- Download the Store Discovery Audit Pro<\/strong> ZIP. Do not unzip it.<\/li>\n
- Go to Plugins > Add Plugin > Upload Plugin<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
- Choose the Pro ZIP, click Install Now<\/strong>, then Activate Plugin<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
- Leave both Store Discovery Audit<\/strong> and Store Discovery Audit Pro<\/strong> active.<\/li>\n
- If asked for a license, use the Activate License<\/strong> button shown by Store Discovery Audit.<\/li>\n
- Open Store Discovery Audit<\/strong> again. The badge beside the version should say Pro<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
Do not delete or replace the Free plugin. Free is the core plugin; Pro adds the paid features.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n- Upload the plugin ZIP in Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.<\/li>\n
- Activate the plugin.<\/li>\n
- Open Store Discovery Audit in the WordPress admin menu.<\/li>\n
- Click Run store scan.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
0.18.20<\/h4>\n\n\n- Renamed the plugin to Wizehawk Store Discovery Audit and updated its public slug\/text domain to avoid name confusion with an unrelated product.<\/li>\n
- Added a complete External services section documenting OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and Freemius usage, transmitted data, timing, and policy links.<\/li>\n
- Made real AI activity monitoring explicitly opt-in and disabled by default.<\/li>\n
- Stopped storing visitor user-agent strings and referrer URLs in AI activity records.<\/li>\n
- No visitor IP addresses are stored or sent to crawler-list providers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.19<\/h4>\n\n\n- Updated the Plugin URI to the dedicated Store Discovery Audit product page so it differs from the Author URI, as required by WordPress.org submission checks.<\/li>\n
- No feature or licensing changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.18<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed the Pro add-on Activate License link to use the parent Freemius Account route with the Pro add-on plugin ID.<\/li>\n
- The license button now opens the correct add-on license activation flow instead of the unavailable add-on account route.<\/li>\n
- No Free feature changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.16<\/h4>\n\n\n- Synchronized the Free parent with the finalized Freemius Pro add-on integration.<\/li>\n
- Parent continues to declare support for the separate Pro add-on.<\/li>\n
- No Free feature changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.15<\/h4>\n\n\n- Updated the parent Freemius integration to declare support for the separate Store Discovery Audit Pro add-on.<\/li>\n
- No Free feature changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.14<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added a direct Activate License button when the Pro add-on is installed but the license is not active.<\/li>\n
- Customers no longer need instructions telling them to hunt for the hidden Freemius Account page.<\/li>\n
- Kept Manage License available only for already-active Pro licenses.<\/li>\n
- No scan or feature changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.13<\/h4>\n\n\n- Hid the built-in Freemius Account, Contact, and Pricing submenu items from normal WordPress navigation.<\/li>\n
- Added a clean License & Pro card inside Store Discovery Audit Settings.<\/li>\n
- Free users see Upgrade to Pro; licensed Pro users see Manage License.<\/li>\n
- The full Freemius account screen remains available only when Manage License is clicked.<\/li>\n
- No scan, data, or Free\/Pro feature changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.12<\/h4>\n\n\n- Converted Store Discovery Audit to a side-by-side Free + Pro add-on architecture.<\/li>\n
- Free remains installed and active; Pro extends it instead of replacing it.<\/li>\n
- Added a safe admin extension point for the Pro add-on.<\/li>\n
- Updated the upgrade instructions to tell customers exactly how to install and keep both plugins active.<\/li>\n
- No Free feature removals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.11<\/h4>\n\n\n- Changed the Free-build Freemius helper, global, and loaded hook back to the plugin's WHACR prefix so WordPress Plugin Check recognizes them correctly.<\/li>\n
- No feature or Free\/Pro behavior changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.10<\/h4>\n\n\n- Cleared the remaining Plugin Check nonce warnings for read-only admin page and tab navigation.<\/li>\n
- No feature or Free\/Pro behavior changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.9<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed dashboard tab targeting after the tabs were converted to normal WordPress links.<\/li>\n
- Restored each tab's data-whacr-tab value so JavaScript no longer treats every tab as Overview.<\/li>\n
- Keeps the server-side link fallback in place if JavaScript is unavailable.<\/li>\n
- No Free\/Pro feature changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.8<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed a Free-build Products tab fatal error caused by missing live-test scanner initialization.<\/li>\n
- Restored the live-page test availability and cooldown variables used by the Products screen.<\/li>\n
- No Free\/Pro feature changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.7<\/h4>\n\n\n- Made dashboard tabs work as normal WordPress links, so they no longer depend on JavaScript.<\/li>\n
- Made Review products links open the Products tab directly without JavaScript.<\/li>\n
- Kept JavaScript enhancements in place for scans, live tests, monitoring, filtering, and other interactive controls.<\/li>\n
- No Free\/Pro feature changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.6<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed dashboard script loading by matching the exact admin.php?page=wizehawk-store-discovery-audit request.<\/li>\n
- Restores the dashboard tabs and Review products navigation when Freemius changes both the WordPress hook and screen ID.<\/li>\n
- No Free\/Pro feature changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.5<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed Free-build admin JavaScript loading when Freemius wraps the top-level plugin menu.<\/li>\n
- Restores the Overview\/Discovery\/Products\/AI activity\/History\/Settings tabs and Review products buttons.<\/li>\n
- Keeps the Free\/Pro split and beginner upgrade instructions unchanged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.4<\/h4>\n\n\n- Free package: removed paid-only implementation code while keeping clear Pro upgrade screens and step-by-step upgrade instructions.<\/li>\n
- Standardized the paid\/Freemius integration to the newer Wizehawk naming convention.<\/li>\n
- Replaced the short Freemius helper, global, and loaded-hook names with long plugin-specific Wizehawk names.<\/li>\n
- Preserved the existing Freemius product ID, public key, plan configuration, premium suffix, menu slug, and Free\/Pro feature split.<\/li>\n
- No free-feature, scan, scoring, data, or entitlement behavior changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.3<\/h4>\n\n\n- Moved uninstall cleanup to Freemius' after_uninstall hook.<\/li>\n
- Removed uninstall.php so Freemius can receive uninstall events and feedback before cleanup runs.<\/li>\n
- Existing scan history and AI activity tables remain preserved on uninstall by design.<\/li>\n
- No feature, entitlement, scan, scoring, or data behavior changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Renamed the Freemius helper, global variable, and loaded hook to use the plugin's WHACR prefix.<\/li>\n
- Clears the remaining WordPress Plugin Check naming-convention warnings introduced by the Freemius integration.<\/li>\n
- No licensing, entitlement, feature, scan, scoring, or data behavior changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Aligned the Free Overview AI activity label with the 7-day activity window used by the Free plan.<\/li>\n
- Updated the Free History description so it no longer implies Pro-only scan comparison features are available.<\/li>\n
- No entitlement, scan, scoring, or data behavior changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.18.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Integrated Freemius for Free\/Pro licensing, checkout, account, and updates.<\/li>\n
- Free keeps the complete manual audit, live-page testing, basic 7-day AI activity counts, and the three most recent scan summaries.<\/li>\n
- Pro unlocks automatic daily scans, regression monitoring, hosted email alerts, full history\/comparisons, bulk product fixes, advanced AI activity reporting, and top AI-accessed products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.17.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Updated the WordPress.org readme \"Tested up to\" value to WordPress 7.1.<\/li>\n
- Completed the remaining documented custom-table database access exceptions reported by Plugin Check.<\/li>\n
- No feature or scoring behavior changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.17.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Reworked the remaining alert-history SQL queries to use prepared table-name identifier placeholders.<\/li>\n
- Added documented WordPress coding-standard exceptions for intentional direct reads and writes to the plugin's own custom scan and activity tables.<\/li>\n
- No feature or scoring behavior changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.16.9<\/h4>\n\n\n- Sanitized admin request URIs before using them for redirect and notice links.<\/li>\n
- Documented read-only admin query parameters so Plugin Check does not treat them as missing nonce protection.<\/li>\n
- Reworked scan-history database queries to use prepared table-name identifier placeholders.<\/li>\n
- No feature or scoring behavior changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.16.8<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added GPLv2-or-later license metadata required by WordPress Plugin Check.<\/li>\n
- Explicitly escaped the summary-card count output.<\/li>\n
- Sanitized the request URI before traffic-monitoring use.<\/li>\n
- Reworked AI activity SQL to use prepared identifier, value, and LIKE placeholders instead of interpolated table names or literal wildcards.<\/li>\n
- No feature or scoring behavior changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.16.7<\/h4>\n\n\n- Completed the WordPress internationalization cleanup for placeholder-based strings.<\/li>\n
- Added translator comments to remaining dashboard, scanner, activity, alert, and live-test messages flagged by Plugin Check.<\/li>\n
- Refactored repeated inline labels so translator comments are attached cleanly to the translated string.<\/li>\n
- No feature or scoring behavior changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.16.6<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added translator comments for placeholder-based translatable strings flagged by WordPress Plugin Check.<\/li>\n
- Clarified numbered placeholders where multiple values are inserted into translated text.<\/li>\n
- Refactored a few inline translated labels so they follow WordPress internationalization standards more cleanly.<\/li>\n
- No feature or scoring behavior changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.16.5<\/h4>\n\n\n- Keeps the Products tab active after a successful bulk fix.<\/li>\n
- Returns the view to the Bulk fixes section after generating SKUs or applying short-description drafts, so merchants can continue fixing remaining product issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.16.4<\/h4>\n\n\n- Improved AI-readable product data messaging when Product JSON-LD is missing.<\/li>\n
- Child fields such as price, currency, availability, image, and SKU now show \"Blocked by schema issue\" instead of an unexplained \"Not checked\" state.<\/li>\n
- Keeps the underlying scoring unchanged; this is a clarity\/UI improvement only.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.16.3<\/h4>\n\n\n- Renamed Machine-readable product data to AI-readable product data.<\/li>\n
- Added a real per-product structured-data results table instead of an explanation-only card.<\/li>\n
- Shows Product schema, price, currency, availability, image, SKU, GTIN, brand, and overall structured-data status.<\/li>\n
- GTIN and brand display Not provided when the store has not supplied those optional values, rather than being treated as failures.<\/li>\n
- Added a compact legend so merchants can understand Ready, Attention, Issue, and Not provided states.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.16.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Removed the local-only Development test mode from the AI Discovery Center.<\/li>\n
- Removed crawler-block simulation controls and the internal forced-block simulation logic.<\/li>\n
- Local development sites still show honest local robots-policy results and clearly mark public crawler verification as unavailable.<\/li>\n
- Kept the Wizehawk email test feature for alert-delivery testing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.16.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Bulk Fixes now shows products that need description work even when they cannot yet be safely auto-fixed.<\/li>\n
- Added a clear count and explanation for products whose full description is too thin to draft a short description from.<\/li>\n
- Added direct Edit product buttons for those manual-description cases.<\/li>\n
- Disabled auto-fix checkboxes and buttons when a product\/fix is not currently safe to automate.<\/li>\n
- Clarified that Store Discovery Audit never invents product copy or overwrites existing descriptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.16.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added an Overview \"What to work on next\" summary that ranks the highest-priority blocking and warning items from the latest scan.<\/li>\n
- Groups repeated product problems so merchants can see how many products are affected without reading every row.<\/li>\n
- Added one-click navigation from Overview action items to the relevant Discovery or Products tab.<\/li>\n
- Polished Settings with a clearer heading and separate Automatic scans and Email alerts cards.<\/li>\n
- Reduced Product readiness visual density by showing two fix items before expanding the rest.<\/li>\n
- Added cleaner spacing, responsive action rows, and useful section anchors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.15.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Reorganized the dashboard into six cleaner tabs: Overview, Discovery, Products, AI activity, History, and Settings.<\/li>\n
- Moved automatic-scan and email-alert controls into Settings.<\/li>\n
- Kept summary cards and readiness scores on the Overview tab.<\/li>\n
- Grouped crawler\/discovery and machine-readable checks together.<\/li>\n
- Grouped live testing, bulk fixes, and product readiness together.<\/li>\n
- Grouped AI activity metrics and top AI-accessed products together.<\/li>\n
- Moved scan comparisons and recent scan history into History.<\/li>\n
- Added remembered tab selection and deep-link handling so navigation stays intuitive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.14.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Removed the temporary\/custom Wizehawk licensing system from the plugin.<\/li>\n
- Removed license activation, site binding, expiry, revoke\/restore, and license-key storage.<\/li>\n
- Hosted email alerts remain available for development\/testing only through the Wizehawk relay.<\/li>\n
- Freemius licensing\/subscription integration is intentionally deferred until the paid edition is ready.<\/li>\n
- Free-version development can continue without any licensing UI or custom entitlement code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.13.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Replaced the temporary shared relay credential with Wizehawk Pro license authentication.<\/li>\n
- Added one-time license activation on the store.<\/li>\n
- Hosted email alerts are available only to an active license bound to the current site.<\/li>\n
- License keys are encrypted before storage in WordPress.<\/li>\n
- Customer email setup remains simple: after license activation, only the alert recipient address is needed.<\/li>\n
- Hosted alert delivery refuses unlicensed or unbound stores.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.12.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Replaced per-site SMTP configuration with Wizehawk-hosted alert delivery.<\/li>\n
- Store owners only enter the email address that should receive alerts.<\/li>\n
- No SMTP host, port, username, password, or separate WordPress mail plugin is required.<\/li>\n
- Saving a valid alert email automatically enables email regression alerts.<\/li>\n
- Added a one-click Wizehawk test alert.<\/li>\n
- Kept dashboard and WordPress admin regression alerts independent of email delivery.<\/li>\n
- Development build uses a temporary relay credential; paid-license authentication will replace it before public release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.11.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added built-in direct SMTP delivery for Store Discovery Audit alert emails, removing the need for a separate WordPress mail plugin.<\/li>\n
- Added SMTP host, port, encryption, authentication, username, password, From identity, and test-recipient settings.<\/li>\n
- SMTP passwords are encrypted before being stored and are never displayed back in the dashboard.<\/li>\n
- Built-in SMTP affects only Store Discovery Audit alerts and does not replace or reconfigure WooCommerce or other WordPress email.<\/li>\n
- Added a Save & send SMTP test workflow with real SMTP error feedback.<\/li>\n
- Email alerts can still use normal WordPress mail when built-in SMTP is not enabled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.10.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Reframed regression email as an optional convenience feature rather than a required setup step.<\/li>\n
- Clarified that Store Discovery Audit does not require an SMTP plugin or separate mail plugin.<\/li>\n
- Optional email alerts use whatever WordPress email delivery the site already has.<\/li>\n
- Test-email feedback now says WordPress accepted the request instead of falsely implying confirmed delivery.<\/li>\n
- Added a development-site warning explaining that local email delivery may not work without a local mail service.<\/li>\n
- Dashboard alerts, WordPress admin notices, scheduled scans, history, and regression detection remain fully functional with email alerts disabled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.10.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added optional regression email alerts for automatic scans.<\/li>\n
- Email alerts are off by default and can be enabled from the plugin dashboard.<\/li>\n
- Administrators can choose the recipient address and send a test email.<\/li>\n
- Clean scans do not send email.<\/li>\n
- Each automatic scan can trigger at most one regression email, preventing duplicate notifications.<\/li>\n
- Email messages include the affected crawler\/product checks and a direct link to Change history.<\/li>\n
- Added last email-attempt status so delivery problems are visible inside the dashboard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.10.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added automatic daily store scans using WordPress cron.<\/li>\n
- Automatic scanning is enabled by default and can be paused or re-enabled from the plugin dashboard.<\/li>\n
- Added next scheduled scan and last automatic attempt information.<\/li>\n
- Added a scan lock to prevent manual and automatic scans from overlapping.<\/li>\n
- Recent scan history now identifies Manual, Automatic, and Bulk fix scans.<\/li>\n
- Scheduled scans use the same local-first scanner and regression detection.<\/li>\n
- WordPress cron is traffic-driven, so scheduled scans may run shortly after the displayed time when the site next receives a visit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.9.3<\/h4>\n\n\n- Prevented duplicate regression alerts on the Store Discovery Audit dashboard.<\/li>\n
- The plugin dashboard now shows only its inline regression alert.<\/li>\n
- The normal WordPress admin regression notice remains available on other admin screens.<\/li>\n
- Dismissing the global notice still applies only to the current scan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.9.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added an inline regression alert inside the Store Discovery Audit dashboard.<\/li>\n
- Regression alerts now appear immediately after an AJAX store scan without requiring a full WordPress page refresh.<\/li>\n
- The existing WordPress admin notice remains available on subsequent admin page loads.<\/li>\n
- Added a Review changes button that jumps directly to Change history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.9.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added WordPress admin regression alerts when the latest completed scan contains new regressions.<\/li>\n
- Alerts link directly to Change history for review.<\/li>\n
- Added Dismiss for this scan so each administrator can silence an alert without hiding future regressions.<\/li>\n
- Notices are based on locally stored scan comparisons and require no cloud service or external notification system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.9.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added change history comparing each completed scan with the previous scan.<\/li>\n
- New regressions are surfaced when tracked discovery, product-data, or machine-data checks become worse.<\/li>\n
- Improvements are tracked separately and can be expanded for review.<\/li>\n
- Added readiness score deltas for Discovery, Product data, and Machine data.<\/li>\n
- Added a recent scan history table showing product totals and Ready \/ Attention \/ Blocked counts.<\/li>\n
- Change history uses existing local scan data; no cloud service or new tracking is required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.8.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Clarified the AI readiness overview activity card so it cannot be mistaken for a percentage score.<\/li>\n
- The card now reads AI activity detected and displays values such as 0 events.<\/li>\n
- The selected 7\/30\/90-day period is labeled as a real activity window.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.8.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added AI readiness overview with separate Discovery, Product data, and Machine-readable data scores.<\/li>\n
- Ready checks receive full credit, warnings receive half credit, and blocking checks receive no credit.<\/li>\n
- Informational checks are excluded from scoring.<\/li>\n
- Added a separate AI activity card showing real crawler\/referral events for the selected 7\/30\/90-day period.<\/li>\n
- AI activity is intentionally reported rather than scored so lack of traffic does not create a fake readiness penalty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.7.4<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added local-only Discovery Center failure-path simulation.<\/li>\n
- Developers can simulate a site-wide robots.txt block for OpenAI Search, Claude Search, Perplexity, Applebot, or Google-Extended.<\/li>\n
- Simulations do not modify the real robots.txt file and are ignored on public sites.<\/li>\n
- Added a one-click Clear simulation action.<\/li>\n
- Changing or clearing a simulation invalidates the discovery cache so the next scan reflects the test state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.7.3<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added crawler-specific recommendations to the AI Discovery Center.<\/li>\n
- Blocked crawlers now show the site-wide robots.txt rule responsible when it can be identified.<\/li>\n
- Added safe suggested Allow rules for OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, and Applebot.<\/li>\n
- Google-Extended is treated as an optional AI-use policy choice rather than a Google Search problem.<\/li>\n
- Improved robots.txt group parsing so crawler-specific and wildcard groups are evaluated more reliably.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.7.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added development-site simulation for AI Discovery Center robots.txt checks.<\/li>\n
- Local WordPress sites now generate and evaluate their robots.txt policy internally without making external network requests.<\/li>\n
- OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Applebot, and Google-Extended policy checks can now be tested safely on local development sites.<\/li>\n
- Public crawler reachability, sitemap verification, and crawler IP verification are clearly labeled unavailable on development sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.7.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Improved AI Discovery Center status wording when a store discovery scan is deferred by rate limiting.<\/li>\n
- Missing crawler checks now show Pending next successful scan instead of Not checked yet when the scan could not complete.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.7.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added AI Discovery Center for OpenAI\/ChatGPT Search, Claude Search, Perplexity, Applebot, and Google-Extended.<\/li>\n
- Store scans now check robots.txt access for Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Applebot, and Google-Extended.<\/li>\n
- Added privacy-conscious crawler identity verification for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity using their official published IP ranges.<\/li>\n
- Crawler IP addresses are never stored; only the verification result is saved.<\/li>\n
- Added crawler verification badges to AI activity sources and recent activity.<\/li>\n
- Added Claude-SearchBot monitoring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.6.3<\/h4>\n\n\n- Live-page testing now honors the server's full Retry-After value when rate-limited.<\/li>\n
- Supports both Retry-After delta-seconds (for example 3600) and HTTP-date format.<\/li>\n
- Falls back to the plugin's safety cooldown only when the server does not provide a usable Retry-After value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.6.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Live-test cooldown badges now update automatically when the timer reaches zero.<\/li>\n
- Product-row Cooling down badges disappear without a page refresh.<\/li>\n
- Historical rate-limited results change to Retest needed as soon as testing becomes available again.<\/li>\n
- Live-test buttons re-enable at the same time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.6.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed a fatal error introduced by the 7 \/ 30 \/ 90 day filter.<\/li>\n
- The selected AI activity period is now available to both the AI activity panel and Top AI-accessed products.<\/li>\n
- Restores the Top AI-accessed products, Live page deep test, Bulk fixes, and Product readiness sections below AI activity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.6.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added 7 \/ 30 \/ 90 day filters to AI activity monitoring.<\/li>\n
- Added an AI activity trend chart for the selected period.<\/li>\n
- AI crawler requests, referral visits, products reached, sources, recent activity, and Top AI-accessed products now follow the selected period.<\/li>\n
- Test events remain clearly labeled and excluded from Top AI-accessed product rankings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.5.9<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed stale Cooling down badges on products after the live-test cooldown has expired.<\/li>\n
- Historical rate-limited results now show Retest needed once testing is available again.<\/li>\n
- Cooling down is shown only while the current global cooldown is actually active.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.5.8<\/h4>\n\n\n- Cleaned up punctuation around closing quotation marks in generated short-description drafts.<\/li>\n
- Prevents endings such as \u201cTHOUSANDTHS MATTER.\u201d. while preserving correct sentence punctuation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.5.7<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed a misleading Bulk fixes status for products that already have a short description.<\/li>\n
- Products with an existing short description now show Already set.<\/li>\n
- Not auto-fixable is now reserved for products that are genuinely missing a short description and cannot be safely drafted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.5.6<\/h4>\n\n\n- Rebuilt the short-description candidate selector for labeled\/bulleted descriptions.<\/li>\n
- Literal bullet characters are now split correctly even when the editor stores them inside one paragraph.<\/li>\n
- Graphic, Design, Artwork, Message, Style, and Theme copy is prioritized over generic garment details.<\/li>\n
- Details copy remains usable but is deliberately lower priority.<\/li>\n
- Long sentences now fall back to a clean punctuation or word boundary instead of becoming non-fixable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.5.5<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed short-description drafts for products whose descriptions are entirely labeled bullet lines.<\/li>\n
- Graphic, Style, Design, Theme, Artwork, Message, and Details labels are now stripped while preserving the useful customer-facing copy.<\/li>\n
- Technical\/admin labels such as SKU, GTIN, size chart, care, shipping, and specifications remain excluded.<\/li>\n
- Added a small preference for vivid merchandising copy when choosing between multiple candidate lines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.5.4<\/h4>\n\n\n- Improved short-description cleanup for metadata-style prefixes.<\/li>\n
- Strips customer-unfriendly labels such as Style, Design, Theme, Artwork, Message, and Graphic while preserving the useful sentence that follows.<\/li>\n
- Continues to skip structural\/specification labels such as Details, Features, Specs, and Size Chart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.5.3<\/h4>\n\n\n- Improved short-description draft source selection.<\/li>\n
- Skips common labels and headings such as Graphic, Details, Features, Specs, and Size Chart.<\/li>\n
- Prefers natural customer-facing prose over bullet\/specification lines.<\/li>\n
- Strips bullet symbols before evaluating candidate text.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.5.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added previews for bulk short-description drafts before saving.<\/li>\n
- Drafts now prefer complete sentences and avoid ugly word-limit truncation.<\/li>\n
- Existing short descriptions are still never overwritten.<\/li>\n
- Renamed the action to Apply short-description drafts so saving is explicit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.5.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed the Bulk fixes panel not rendering on the dashboard.<\/li>\n
- Bulk fixes now appear directly above Product readiness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.5.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added Bulk fixes for selected WooCommerce products.<\/li>\n
- Generate unique SKUs only for products that are missing them; existing SKUs are never overwritten.<\/li>\n
- Create short-description drafts from text already present in the product's full description; existing short descriptions are never overwritten.<\/li>\n
- Added product selection, confirmation prompts, and immediate rescanning after successful fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.4.7<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed the remaining fatal error in Top AI-accessed products.<\/li>\n
- The ranking now uses the existing whacr_ai_events table directly instead of calling a nonexistent table_name() helper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.4.6<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed a fatal error in Top AI-accessed products caused by using the wrong AI activity timestamp column.<\/li>\n
- Added a defensive fallback so a failed product-ranking query cannot break the admin dashboard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.4.5<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixed the Top AI-accessed products panel not rendering in the admin dashboard.<\/li>\n
- Keeps test-monitoring events excluded from product rankings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.4.4<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added Top AI-accessed products for the last 30 days.<\/li>\n
- Separates crawler hits from AI referral visits per product.<\/li>\n
- Excludes test-monitoring events from product rankings.<\/li>\n
- Added direct Edit and View links from the ranking table.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.4.3<\/h4>\n\n\n- Expanded AI activity recognition with Applebot.<\/li>\n
- Added activity categories so merchants can distinguish search\/discovery crawlers, training\/data crawlers, user-triggered AI fetchers, ads\/validation bots, and referral traffic.<\/li>\n
- Added category labels to Sources and Recent activity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.4.2<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fix test-activity detection so Clear test activity appears after a monitoring self-test.<\/li>\n
- Fix clearing of test monitoring records.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.4.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added local AI crawler and AI referral monitoring.<\/li>\n
- Added 30-day activity dashboard and 90-day retention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.3.10<\/h4>\n\n\n- Condenses rate-limit\/security errors in product rows and moves technical details behind a View details control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.3.9<\/h4>\n\n\n- Simplifies cooldown messaging so the remaining time appears only in the main yellow notice.<\/li>\n
- Keeps the Live Page Deep Test panel concise while a cooldown is active.<\/li>\n
- Removes repeated per-product countdown text and uses a small Cooling down badge with disabled test buttons instead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.3.8<\/h4>\n\n\n- Fixes a fatal admin-page error introduced in 0.3.6 when rendering the cooldown notice.<\/li>\n
- Reuses the live scanner instance correctly for cooldown state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.3.6<\/h4>\n\n\n- Adds a prominent cooldown notice above the product table while live testing is paused.<\/li>\n
- Shows \u201cToo many test attempts\u201d for HTTP 429 rate limits instead of presenting the condition as a product error.<\/li>\n
- Keeps technical blocking details secondary while giving the user a clear countdown before testing is available again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
0.3.5<\/h4>\n\n