Meerkat Markdown for AI Visibility

Changelog

5.0

• Corrects the release package for Plugin Check: excludes development configuration and documents testing with WordPress 7.1.3.
• Filters excluded post IDs after cached batch queries; home Markdown fills its configured entry limit from subsequent batches.
• Documents the narrow coding-standard exception required to restore existing WordPress core globals.
• Uses an isolated guest identity and correct post context for public exports; restores the original request state afterwards.
• Applies ID, category and tag exclusions to llms.txt, direct Markdown URLs, home output and Markdown sitemaps.
• Protects HTTP Basic credentials across scheme, host, port and redirect changes; rejects oversized responses.
• Rejects sitemap DTD/entity declarations, validates child XML, restores libxml settings and prevents recursive dynamic sitemap fetches.
• Adds a database generation lock, ownership-aware lock release and a visible last-run status.
• Adds authenticated POST-only JSON settings saves with nonce validation before manual generation.
• Uses versioned, locale-aware caches; invalidates on content, metadata, taxonomy and relevant setting changes.
• Supports HEAD and conditional GET; avoids sharing authenticated, cookie-dependent or extra-query responses.
• Queries complete post batches, primes metadata/terms and uses deterministic ordering; parses child sitemaps once.
• Preserves existing files on child-sitemap failures and refuses invalid oversized single-sitemap exports.
• Reschedules cron after initial saves and timezone changes; schedules the next run before rendering.
• Fixes unknown query endpoints, HTML-suffix permalinks, XML query escaping, inline-code fences and uninstall cache cleanup.
• Synchronizes plugin, asset and translation versions to 5.0; retains every existing named function and method.

4.2

• Protects existing llms.txt files: files not owned by this plugin are neither overwritten nor removed during uninstall.
• Manages only a clearly marked plugin block in robots.txt and preserves all unrelated directives.
• Supports dynamic Markdown URLs with plain WordPress permalinks through query-based endpoints.
• Propagates failed write, delete, permission and directory operations instead of reporting false success.
• Removes dynamic Markdown rewrite rules reliably when the feature or plugin is disabled.
• Corrects the settings description for canonical and X-Robots-Tag headers.
• Updates repository metadata and moves older release notes to changelog.txt.
• Regenerates the translation template from the current source.
• Renames plugin classes and methods to WordPress-compatible naming conventions and normalizes formatting.
• Prevents shortcodes from being executed twice during llms.txt generation.
• Validates sitemap XML before accepting a fallback endpoint.
• Stages and rolls back generated files so failed sitemap generation does not partially update llms.txt.

4.1

• Adds a defensive DOMNode guard clause to the HTML-to-Markdown parser.
• Prevents PHP warnings when an unexpected or null node is passed to the recursive node processor.

4.0

Major improvements

Security

• Limits dynamic Markdown output to published, publicly accessible and non-password-protected content.
• Drafts, private posts and password-protected content are no longer exposed through .md URLs.
• Unknown Markdown URLs return a real HTTP 404 response instead of homepage content.
• Uses safe remote requests, validates AJAX permissions and adds canonical, noindex and MIME-sniffing protection headers.

Generation, sitemaps and scheduling

• Supports public custom post types and Elementor, Divi and Avada content.
• Generates a valid Markdown XML sitemap and removes obsolete robots.txt directives.
• Processes large sites in batches and validates root, upload and filter values.
• Uses timezone-aware calendar scheduling for hourly, daily, weekly and monthly runs.
• Cleans generated data, options, cron events and legacy robots.txt entries on uninstall.

Earlier release notes are included in changelog.txt.