=== apSEO ===
Contributors: artistprowp
Tags: seo, news seo, schema, sitemaps, ai discovery, redirects
Requires at least: 6.4
Requires PHP: 8.1
Stable tag: 1.4.0
License: GPLv2 or later

apSEO is the ArtistProWP publication SEO and AI-discovery readiness engine.

== Features ==
* Canonical metadata, Open Graph and Twitter cards
* Organization, WebSite, Article and NewsArticle schema graphs
* XML, image and Google News sitemaps
* Authority topic hubs and contextual internal linking
* Governed redirect rules
* Publication profiles and AI-discovery entity clarity
* Site audit lifecycle, remediation tracking and licensed updates
* Automatic IndexNow notifications for Bing, Copilot and participating search engines
* Explicit crawler policy for ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Gemini and Bing
* Discovery status and manual IndexNow submission through WP-CLI
* Accurate Person versus newsroom Organization author entities and author profile URLs
* RSS feed discovery and fail-closed 404 indexing controls
* Daily rendered-output audits for canonicals, schema, feeds, sitemaps, llms.txt and 404 behavior

== Changelog ==
= 1.4.0 =
* Preserves named writers as Person authors with profile URLs while representing genuine staff bylines as accountable newsroom Organizations.
* Adds RSS autodiscovery to public page metadata.
* Makes 404 pages fail closed with noindex,follow and no canonical or article schema.
* Expands daily audits to verify rendered canonical uniqueness, structured data, RSS, llms.txt, news sitemaps and correct 404 behavior.

= 1.3.1 =
* Adds a public llms.txt discovery document for AI answer engines.
* Adds SoftwareApplication product schema with governed pricing data.
* Adds page-level noindex controls and removes excluded pages from XML sitemaps.
* Adds a publication-wide default social image fallback.

= 1.3.0 =
* Adds a guided four-step onboarding journey from license activation through a verified first readiness audit.
* Adds direct customer-account, documentation and support destinations throughout setup.

= 1.2.0 =
* Adds guided publication setup and operational site audits.
* Adds per-content SEO controls and non-destructive metadata migration.
* Adds compatibility detection and corrected customer destinations.

= 1.1.0 =
* Adds cross-engine discovery readiness and automated IndexNow submission.
* Adds explicit search-crawler policy for Bing/Copilot, ChatGPT Search, Perplexity and Gemini.
* Adds discovery diagnostics and manual URL submission commands.

= 1.0.2 =
* Removes the WordPress core duplicate canonical and emits WebPage schema for pages.

= 1.0.1 =
* Uses the governed publication description on publication homepages.

= 1.0.0 =
* Adds the production publication runtime proven across MMR, SBO+ and SchoolMusic.Travel.
