1.1.0

A more reliable fit for your WordPress website

Version 1.1.0 focuses on stability and broader compatibility, improving how Serfe AI Discovery works with your existing content and plugins.

Highlights

• Improved Gutenberg support: Better handling of block-based content, including fixes for image blocks.
• Expanded caching compatibility: Improved support for additional third-party caching plugins.
• Broader SEO compatibility: Improvements to work alongside more third-party SEO plugins and existing configurations.

This release builds on our goal of making public website content easier for AI-powered search engines and agents to discover, access, and understand—while fitting into the WordPress setup you already use.

Thanks to everyone who shared feedback and helped improve this release!

Full Changelog: 1.0.11...1.1.0

1.0.13

[1.0.13] - 2026-10-20

Added

• Expanded WooCommerce Markdown output with public product pricing and variation details.
• Added optional Content Signals integration with WordPress virtual robots.txt, plus configuration guidance for supported SEO plugins.
• Added llms.txt starter templates based on eligible public site content, with scheduled regeneration support.
• Added page-cache detection, cache diagnostics, and an administrator-initiated cache purge action in Discovery Checks.

Changed

• Improved compatibility with popular page-cache plugins for Markdown negotiation and HTTP Link headers.
• Improved Content Signals controls for communicating crawler and AI-training preferences to compatible services.
• Improved canonical root discovery-file handling and administrator guidance for multilingual WordPress configurations.
• Refined local Agent Skills index validation and documentation of same-origin diagnostic requests.
• Simplified manual and advanced file-management workflows for robots.txt and llms.txt.

1.0.12

[1.0.12] - 2026-10-15

Added

• Added WordPress integration smoke checks for each supported minor version from 6.2 through 7.1.
• Added PHP 8.5 to the automated source-test matrix.
• Added Settings and Community support links to the plugin row in WordPress administration.

Changed

• Linked the plugin author name in WordPress administration to the Serfe website.
• Updated GitHub support links and public compatibility documentation for the canonical Serfe repository.
• Derived asset cache versions from the plugin header and replaced release-specific documentation with version-neutral references.
• In WordPress Multisite, each site now stores and serves its own virtual robots.txt and llms.txt response without writing to the shared filesystem.

Fixed

• Sanitized the public Markdown query parameter before evaluating content negotiation.
• Documented the required standard cache-plugin constants to prevent false-positive WordPress coding-standard warnings.
• Kept PATH_INFO aligned with explicit .md requests so Markdown routes resolve on WordPress Multisite subdirectory sites.
• Added documented WPCS exceptions for encoded request paths that are parsed internally and never rendered.

First public release 🚀

Introducing Serfe AI Discovery

We're excited to share the first public release of Serfe AI Discovery, a free and open-source WordPress plugin designed to make websites easier for AI-powered search engines and agents to discover, access, and understand.

Originally developed at Serfe to address needs across several client projects, we're now making it available to the wider WordPress community.

Key Features

• Markdown for AI Agents: Make eligible public website content available in a clean, AI-friendly Markdown format.
• Robots.txt Management: Configure crawler access and AI-related content signals.
• LLMs.txt Support: Publish structured discovery information for AI systems.
• AI Discovery Checks: Validate configuration and identify potential issues.
• API Catalog: Optionally publish machine-readable information about public API capabilities.
• WooCommerce Compatibility: Support public content discovery on WordPress eCommerce websites.

Open Source & Community

Serfe has been working with WordPress since 2009. This release represents another step in our commitment to the WordPress ecosystem.

We welcome feedback, bug reports, feature suggestions, and contributions through GitHub Issues and Pull Requests.

For security-related reports, please follow the instructions in our SECURITY.md file.

Thank you for helping us make the web more accessible to AI agents!