v1.1.0

The 1.1.0 admin-UI redesign: the keyword model becomes a link group (equal interchangeable phrases sharing one URL, one group cap, and per-group nofollow/new-tab), managed from a native Tools → Autolink list (REST-backed modal, search/sort/pagination, bulk actions) with the structural rules rebuilt on the Settings API (chip inputs, term targeting). An in-place update from 1.0.0 is carried over transparently by a self-healing migrator — no lockout, no lost data.

Added

• A domain glossary (CONTEXT.md) defining the project's ubiquitous language (Autolink, Link group, Phrase, Group cap, Post cap, Term targeting).
• Architecture decision records for the planned admin UI redesign: a server-rendered admin UI with a REST-backed modal (ADR 0001), a Settings/Tools split of the admin information architecture (ADR 0002), and the self-healing in-place upgrade routine that carries released 1.0.0 sites onto the link-group model despite the brief's "no migration" premise (ADR 0003).
• Reciprocal cross-navigation between the two Autolink admin screens, plus quick links on the Plugins screen (ADR 0002): Settings → Autolink links to the Tools link-group manager, the Tools manager links back to Settings for administrators only (an editor who cannot reach the manage_options-gated Settings page never sees the link), and the plugin's action-links row on the Plugins screen carries both a Link groups and a Settings link.

Changed

• Replaced the keyword model with the link group model: a set of equal, interchangeable phrases that share one URL, one group cap, and their own nofollow and new-tab behaviour. The option kntnt_autolink_keywords is renamed to kntnt_autolink_link_groups and the capability kntnt_autolink_manage_keywords to kntnt_autolink_manage_link_groups. An in-place update from 1.0.0 is repaired by a version-keyed upgrade routine that re-grants the renamed capability and folds the legacy keyword entries into link groups, so an updated site is never locked out of the Tools manager and keeps its data.
• Moved the per-link nofollow and new-tab behaviour from the global structural rules onto each link group.
• Tools → Autolink now lists link groups in a native WP_List_Table (Phrases · URL · Group cap) with an add/edit <dialog> modal and Edit/Delete row actions, saving over a REST API (kntnt-autolink/v1) secured with X-WP-Nonce and a capability check; the table body re-renders server-side after each change with no full page reload.
• The Tools → Autolink list gained native search (matching a group by any phrase or its URL), sortable Phrases (by first phrase) and Group cap columns, and pagination — all resolved server-side and preserved across an add, edit or delete, since the REST re-render carries the current search, sort and page. A kntnt_autolink_per_page filter tunes how many groups a page shows.
• The Tools → Autolink list gained row selection with bulk Delete and bulk Set group cap… actions. Both apply over a capability-then-nonce gated REST bulk route (POST kntnt-autolink/v1/link-groups/bulk) and re-render the table without a full page reload, preserving the current search, sort and page; bulk set-cap honours the same positive-integer rule as the per-group cap. A no-JS fallback handles each bulk action through a native confirmation screen (the set-cap screen carrying a number field), nonce-protected before any irreversible delete.
• Relocated the structural rules to their own Settings → Autolink page, realising the Tools/Settings menu split.
• Rebuilt the Settings → Autolink page on the native WordPress Settings API (register_setting, three add_settings_section groups — Targeting, Link behaviour & limits, Content eligibility — and an add_settings_field per control), saving through options.php. Post types and deny tags use a new reusable chip input (vanilla ES2022, no build step): post types are a closed selector limited to the registered public post types, deny tags are free-text chips prefilled with the h1–h6, a, code, pre, script, style defaults. Each field carries a grey help line. The chip widget degrades without JavaScript to a plain comma/newline textarea that still saves; the sanitise callback rejects post types outside the registered public set and coerces the post cap to a positive integer.
• Added a term-targeting control to the Settings → Autolink Targeting section: a repeatable stack of [ taxonomy ▾ ] [ term chips ] rows with an Add taxonomy button. The term chips autocomplete against the selected taxonomy through a new manage_options-gated REST route (GET kntnt-autolink/v1/terms), extending the chip widget through its registerSource / data-suggest seam (no fork). Selections persist through the Settings API as the terms map (taxonomy → term ids) and reload into the control. Behaviour is include-only: a post is autolinked when it is one of the enabled post types and carries any of the chosen terms; with no terms selected, every post of the enabled post types is processed — the section help text states this. The control degrades without JavaScript to a per-taxonomy textarea of term ids.
• Renamed the kntnt_autolink_keywords filter to kntnt_autolink_link_groups (now passing Link_Group[]); the kntnt_autolink_link_attributes context now carries group_id and matched_text instead of keyword_id and base.

Full changelog: https://github.com/Kntnt/kntnt-autolink/blob/v1.1.0/CHANGELOG.md

v1.0.0

First public release of Kntnt Autolink – rule-based keyword→URL autolinking for WordPress.

Added

• First release.
• Rule-based keyword-to-URL autolinking, applied to the_content at a configurable priority (default 20).
• A WordPress-free matching engine (Linker) with exact, case-insensitive matching, Unicode word boundaries, longest-first ordering, first-occurrence linking, a per-keyword cap and a global per-post cap.
• Include-only XPath targeting, a deny-tag list, a skip class (.no-autolink) and a raw deny-XPath, all compiled into a single eligibility query.
• Two non-autoloaded options (settings and keywords), read once per request.
• A Tools page: keyword management for editors and above, structural rules for administrators only.
• A custom capability (kntnt_autolink_manage_keywords), granted on activation and removed on uninstall.
• A filter API: kntnt_autolink_keywords, kntnt_autolink_deny, kntnt_autolink_allow_only, kntnt_autolink_should_run, kntnt_autolink_link_attributes and kntnt_autolink_content_priority.
• A kntnt-autolink class on every generated link, for theming and as an extension seam.
• A Pest unit suite and a WordPress Playground integration suite.

Full changelog: https://github.com/Kntnt/kntnt-autolink/blob/v1.0.0/CHANGELOG.md