Lunar SEO v1.0.0 - Production Ready

What's New in v1.0.0

We are proud to announce the stable production release of Lunar SEO (v1.0.0)! This plugin provides a lightweight, modular technical SEO solution for WordPress, strictly adhering to WordPress Coding Standards and focusing only on essential features without the bloat.

Key Features Checklist

1. General Module

• Dynamic Meta Control: Custom SEO Title and Meta Description configurations with a real-time character limit indicator integrated directly into the Gutenberg sidebar panel.
• Webmaster Verification: Built-in verification slots for Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster, and Yandex.
• Crawler Optimization: Built-in Canonical URL generation, customized robots meta flags, and an automated filter to remove category/tag bases from permalinks.

2. Sitemap Module

• Smart XML Engine: Automatic generation of /sitemap.xml mapping all content types (posts, pages, terms, authors, and CPTs).
• Instant Invalidation: Automatic sitemap cache updates upon publishing, editing, or deleting content.
• Exclusion & Priority Control: Granular content exclusion filters and customizable per-type priority settings.
• Core Protection: Automatically disables native WP core sitemaps to prevent indexing duplicates and gracefully injects custom sitemap index rules to virtual robots.txt.

3. Schema Module

• Structured Data Graph: Implements a zero-config, highly-optimized JSON-LD @graph architecture.
• Automated Nodes Assembly: Generates relational structured data nodes for WebSite, Organization, BreadcrumbList, ImageObject, and dynamic Article / WebPage components derived instantly from native post metadata.

Core Infrastructure & Documentation

• Fully mapped namespace autoloader configured with strict compliance to PSR-4 standards.
• Comprehensive technical architecture specs and engineering guidelines registered inside the docs/ folder.
• Complete deployment configurations with optimized bundle scripts via @wordpress/scripts.