Description
Improve Your WordPress Publishing, Search Visibility & Website Health
AF Companion is an all-in-one WordPress publishing and website optimization toolkit for bloggers, publishers, news websites, online magazines, content creators, and business website owners.
Improve how people and search engines discover your content. Prepare your website for AI-powered search experiences. Make images more accessible, optimize social sharing, monitor broken links, improve website performance, and keep your WordPress installation healthy.
Instead of managing everyday publishing and website maintenance tasks across multiple tools, AF Companion brings practical solutions together in one place.
Whether you run a personal blog, a growing business website, an online magazine, or a high-traffic news portal, AF Companion helps you spend less time on repetitive website management and more time creating valuable content.
Improve SEO, GEO & AI Search Visibility
Help search engines and AI-powered discovery platforms better understand your website content.
- AI SEO Title & Meta Description Generator: Generate relevant SEO titles and meta descriptions for posts, pages, and supported custom post types. Create and refine search snippets without writing every description from scratch.
- Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Improve content structure and semantic relationships to make information easier for generative search engines and AI answer platforms to interpret.
- AI Search Optimization (AIO): Organize important information with AI-generated article takeaways, key insights, and meaningful content summaries.
- Content Structure Insights: Identify opportunities to improve headings, readability, topic coverage, and information organization.
- Individual Content Optimization: Manage SEO metadata, social sharing, Schema JSON-LD, and AIO/GEO settings independently for supported posts and pages.
Make Your Content Easier to Understand with Schema Markup
Provide search engines with additional context about your website and published content through structured data.
- WordPress Schema Markup: Generate JSON-LD structured data for Article, TechArticle, NewsArticle, and FAQPage content.
- AI FAQ Schema Generator: Identify relevant questions and generate FAQ structured data from AI-assisted content generation.
- Content-Specific Schema Controls: Manage structured data settings for individual posts and pages.
- SEO Plugin Compatibility: Work alongside popular SEO solutions, including Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, and SEOPress compatibility checks.
Improve Social Sharing & Open Graph Previews
Control how your content appears when visitors share your website links across social networks and messaging platforms.
- Open Graph Metadata: Configure social sharing metadata for Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and WhatsApp.
- Custom Social Titles & Descriptions: Set appropriate titles and descriptions for individual content.
- Social Sharing Images: Use featured images, a custom fallback image, or your website icon to create consistent link previews.
- Independent Social Controls: Manage social and Open Graph settings separately from your SEO metadata.
Generate Better Image Alt Text with AI
Improve image accessibility, reduce repetitive editorial work, and make your media library easier to maintain.
- AI Alt Text Generator: Generate descriptive alternative text suggestions for images using compatible WordPress AI Connectors.
- Context AI: Analyze individual images using available website information, including your website name and linked post or page context, to produce more relevant image descriptions.
- Alt Text Manager: Find images with missing alternative text and review image accessibility across your WordPress website.
- Media Library Integration: Generate alternative text directly from the WordPress Media Library and Featured Image panel.
- Editorial Workflow Integration: Access image optimization tools from supported post editors and media management screens.
- Alt Text Progress Indicators: Identify image accessibility and optimization status through supported WordPress post list tables.
- Customizable AI Prompts: Adjust image description instructions and select available AI models from AF Companion AI Settings.
Improve WordPress Performance & Website Speed
Keep your WordPress website efficient by managing unnecessary features, frontend resources, and database overhead.
- WordPress Performance Optimization: Enable or disable selected WordPress core features and frontend resources.
- HTML & JavaScript Optimization: Configure HTML minification, asynchronous JavaScript loading, and selected asset optimization.
- Google Fonts Optimization: Adjust font loading behavior to improve frontend resource delivery.
- WordPress Cleanup: Manage Heartbeat API, autosave, and post revision settings.
- Database Optimization: Identify database overhead and clean selected post revisions, expired transients, spam comments, and orphaned metadata.
- Controlled Database Maintenance: Review database cleanup opportunities using dry-run scanning and batched cleanup operations.
Monitor Website Health, Content & Broken Links
Identify common website problems and keep your content and WordPress installation in better condition.
- Broken Link Monitor: Find problematic internal and external links across your website.
- Post-Level Link Audits: Review links from individual posts and pages, inspect their status, and perform instant link rechecks.
- Content Monitor: Track published content and identify posts that may need editorial attention or regular maintenance.
- WordPress Site Health: Review important WordPress, PHP, database, and server configuration information.
- Website Diagnostics: Check important website components, including REST API availability, loopback requests, WP-Cron, PHP configuration, and image processing libraries.
- Admin Bar Shortcuts: Access supported publishing, SEO, image accessibility, and website maintenance tools from your WordPress dashboard and frontend.
Manage Analytics, Webmaster & Publishing Integrations
Connect your website with commonly used analytics, verification, and publishing services.
- Google Analytics 4: Configure Google Analytics tracking for your website.
- Google Tag Manager: Add and manage your Google Tag Manager integration.
- Meta Pixel: Configure Meta Pixel for supported website tracking.
- Microsoft Clarity: Integrate Microsoft Clarity for website behavior analytics.
- Webmaster Verification: Manage verification codes for Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Yandex, and Pinterest.
- Google News & Publisher Tools: Configure supported Google News metadata, AdSense Auto Ads, RSS attribution, and other publishing integrations.
Designed for WordPress Publishers & Website Owners
AF Companion is designed for people who want practical publishing, optimization, and website maintenance tools without unnecessarily complicating their WordPress workflow.
It is useful for:
- News & Magazine Publishers: Manage content optimization, structured data, social previews, and editorial maintenance.
- Bloggers & Content Creators: Improve search snippets, image accessibility, and content organization.
- Business Website Owners: Maintain website health, optimize performance, and monitor important website links.
- Digital Publishers & Editorial Teams: Reduce repetitive publishing tasks and improve content management workflows.
- WordPress Developers & Agencies: Access practical website optimization and maintenance controls across supported WordPress installations.
Works Alongside Your Existing WordPress SEO Workflow
AF Companion complements dedicated SEO plugins rather than requiring you to replace your existing SEO solution.
It includes compatibility checks for Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, and SEOPress. You can use its additional publishing, image accessibility, performance, and website health tools alongside your existing workflow.
Review overlapping metadata and schema settings to avoid duplicate output.
AI Providers & Privacy
AI-powered SEO metadata and image alt text generation use compatible WordPress AI Connectors.
- Select an available AI provider and model through your WordPress AI Connector configuration.
- Customize supported AI prompts from AF Companion AI Settings.
- Use image-capable models for image analysis and Context AI functionality.
- Review AI-generated suggestions before publishing.
AI provider availability, usage limits, pricing, data processing, and privacy policies are determined by the connected service and its configuration.
AF Companion does not guarantee Google rankings, AI search citations, website traffic growth, or automated accessibility compliance. SEO, GEO, schema, and AI-generated content suggestions should be reviewed before publication.
AF Themes Starter Sites
AF Companion also retains demo import functionality for compatible AF Themes workflows.
Import demo content, widget settings, and Customizer settings using supported XML, WIE, JSON, and DAT files.
Learn more about AF Themes Starter Sites.
Support & Documentation
Need help getting started or configuring AF Companion?
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Installation
- Go to Plugins > Add New in your WordPress dashboard.
- Search for AF Companion.
- Install and activate the plugin.
- Open AF Companion from your WordPress administration menu.
- Explore the available modules and enable the tools you need.
Getting Started with AI SEO & GEO
- Configure a compatible AI provider through WordPress AI Connectors.
- Open a post, page, or supported custom post type.
- Find the AF Companion meta box in the editor.
- Enable the SEO Meta, Social & OpenGraph, Schema JSON-LD, or AIO/GEO options you want to use.
- Generate SEO metadata and content insights.
- Review the generated suggestions before publishing.
Getting Started with AI Alt Text
- Configure a compatible AI provider through WordPress AI Connectors.
- Open the AF Companion AI Settings page.
- Select an available image-capable AI model.
- Customize your AI prompt if needed.
- Open an image from the Media Library, Featured Image panel, or Alt Text Manager.
- Select Context AI to generate a context-aware alternative text suggestion.
- Review the generated description before applying it.
Important: Create a website backup before performing database maintenance or changing performance settings. Test optimization settings individually to avoid conflicts with your theme, caching plugins, and other performance tools.
FAQ
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What is AF Companion?
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AF Companion is an all-in-one WordPress publishing and website optimization toolkit. It helps with SEO, GEO, AI search readiness, image accessibility, social sharing, performance optimization, broken link monitoring, and WordPress website health.
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Who should use AF Companion?
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AF Companion is designed for WordPress bloggers, news and magazine publishers, content creators, business website owners, digital publishing teams, and WordPress developers who want practical publishing and website maintenance tools.
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Can I use AF Companion without an AF Themes theme?
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Yes. Most AF Companion features, including SEO, AI alt text, schema markup, social sharing, performance optimization, database cleanup, link monitoring, and website health tools, are designed for general WordPress websites. Demo import functionality is intended for compatible AF Themes workflows.
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Can AF Companion improve my Google search visibility?
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AF Companion helps improve your SEO workflow with optimized titles, meta descriptions, structured data, and better image descriptions. These improvements can support your broader search optimization strategy, but rankings depend on many factors beyond a single plugin.
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What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?
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GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimization. It focuses on making website information easier for AI-powered search engines and answer platforms to understand, interpret, and potentially reference. AF Companion provides content structure, semantic entity, and article takeaway optimization tools to support this process.
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Does AF Companion support ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews?
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AF Companion provides AIO and GEO content optimization tools intended to improve how AI-powered search experiences interpret your website content. It does not submit content directly to these platforms or guarantee crawling, citations, rankings, or recommendations.
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What is the difference between SEO, AIO, and GEO?
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SEO focuses on improving visibility in traditional search engines. AIO refers to optimizing content for AI-powered discovery, while GEO focuses on making information easier for generative search and answer engines to understand and potentially reference.
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Can AF Companion generate SEO titles and meta descriptions using AI?
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Yes. The AI SEO Generator creates SEO title and meta description suggestions for posts, pages, and supported custom post types. You can review and edit the generated metadata before publishing.
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Does AF Companion work with Yoast SEO and Rank Math?
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Yes. AF Companion includes compatibility checks for Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, and SEOPress. It can complement your existing SEO workflow with additional publishing, image accessibility, performance, and maintenance tools. Review overlapping metadata and schema settings to prevent duplicate output.
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Yes. AF Companion provides separate content-level controls for SEO Meta, Social & OpenGraph, Schema JSON-LD, and AIO/GEO Optimization on supported content.
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Does AF Companion generate WordPress schema markup?
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Yes. AF Companion supports Article, TechArticle, NewsArticle, and FAQPage JSON-LD structured data to provide search engines with additional information about your content.
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Can AF Companion generate FAQ schema using AI?
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Yes. AF Companion can identify relevant questions during AI-assisted content generation and create FAQPage structured data. Review the questions and answers and ensure they are supported by visible page content.
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AF Companion lets you configure social titles, descriptions, and images for Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and WhatsApp. You can manage social metadata independently from your SEO metadata.
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What happens if a post does not have a featured image?
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AF Companion uses the featured image first, followed by your configured fallback social image and then your WordPress site icon.
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Does AF Companion include an AI image alt text generator?
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Yes. The AI Alt Text Manager generates descriptive alternative text suggestions using compatible WordPress AI Connectors. You can analyze images individually and review the results before applying them.
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What is Context AI in AF Companion?
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Context AI analyzes an individual image and uses available website information, such as your website name and linked post or page context, to generate a more relevant alternative text suggestion.
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Where can I access Context AI?
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Context AI is available through supported AF Companion image workflows, including the Alt Text Manager, WordPress Media Library popup, and Featured Image panel in the post editor.
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Can I customize AI alt text generation prompts?
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Yes. Open the AF Companion AI Settings page to customize supported AI prompts and select an available model through your connected WordPress AI provider.
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Which AI providers and models are supported?
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AF Companion uses compatible WordPress AI Connectors. Available providers and models depend on the connectors installed and configured on your website. Image analysis requires a model that supports image input.
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Do I need a separate AI API key for AF Companion?
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AF Companion uses compatible WordPress AI Connectors for AI provider access. Configure your provider and any required API credentials through the available connector settings.
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Does AF Companion automatically generate alt text for every image?
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No. AI alt text generation is an on-demand workflow. You can choose which images to analyze, generate suggestions, and review their descriptions before applying them.
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How do I find images with missing alt text?
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Open the AF Companion Alt Text Manager to review images that need alternative text. Supported post list tables also display image accessibility and optimization status indicators.
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Can AF Companion improve WordPress website speed?
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AF Companion includes performance controls for selected WordPress core features, frontend resources, HTML output, JavaScript loading, Google Fonts, Heartbeat API, autosave, and post revisions. Results depend on your hosting, theme, plugins, and website configuration.
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Does AF Companion include WordPress database optimization?
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Yes. AF Companion helps identify database overhead and clean selected post revisions, expired transients, spam comments, and orphaned metadata. It also provides dry-run scanning and batched cleanup operations. Create a backup before performing database maintenance.
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How can I find broken links on my WordPress website?
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Use Link Monitor to identify problematic internal and external links. You can review links from individual posts and pages, recheck their status, and monitor overall website link health from the dashboard.
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Can I monitor old or outdated WordPress content?
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Yes. Content Monitor helps you review published content and identify posts that may need editorial attention or regular maintenance.
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Does AF Companion include WordPress Site Health tools?
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Yes. AF Companion provides website diagnostics for important WordPress and server components, including REST API availability, loopback requests, WP-Cron, PHP configuration, database information, and image processing libraries.
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Which analytics and webmaster services are supported?
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AF Companion supports integrations for Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, Microsoft Clarity, Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Yandex, and Pinterest. It also provides supported Google News metadata, AdSense Auto Ads, and RSS attribution settings.
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Can I use AF Companion with caching and performance plugins?
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Yes. However, some performance features may overlap with caching, minification, or JavaScript optimization plugins. Review settings and test individual changes to avoid conflicts or unexpected frontend behavior.
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Does AF Companion still include demo import functionality?
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Yes. Demo and manual import functionality remains available for compatible AF Themes workflows. You can import XML content, WIE or JSON widget settings, and DAT Customizer settings.
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Where can I get AF Companion support?
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Visit the AF Themes Support Center at https://afthemes.com/supports/ or explore the documentation at https://docs.afthemes.com/.
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Contributors & Developers
“AF Companion – AI SEO, GEO, Alt Text, Performance & Site Health” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
3.3.0 – 08/11/2026
- Added compact 4-tier color status indicators (Green, Blue, Orange, Red) with full WCAG accessibility labels for post list table columns.
- Added Context AI Alt Text generator button to post editor Featured Image panel and Media Library popups with Backbone.js model synchronization.
- Added standalone Link Monitor meta box for per-post link auditing and instant HTTP health rechecks.
- Added batched database processing routines and transient query caching to handle high-traffic sites with 100,000+ posts.
- Added native WordPress Dashboard widget for real-time site-wide link health monitoring.
- Improved metadata generation endpoint security with nonce verification and post editing capability checks.
- Optimized metadata handling to bypass background editor autosaves.
- Improved output escaping for generated metadata, attributes, and user-facing strings.
3.2.0 – 07/11/2026
- Added AI-powered SEO title and meta description generation for posts, pages, and supported custom post types.
- Added individual content controls for SEO metadata, social and Open Graph metadata, Schema JSON-LD, and AIO/GEO optimization.
- Added semantic entity generation and article takeaways to support AI-powered content optimization.
- Added content structure insights using word counts, heading frequency, and list structure metrics.
- Added social sharing metadata generation for Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp.
- Added social image fallback support using the featured image, custom fallback image, and site icon.
- Added JSON-LD schema type selection for Article, TechArticle, NewsArticle, and FAQPage.
- Added AI-assisted FAQ question extraction and FAQPage structured data generation.
- Improved metadata generation endpoint security with nonce verification and post editing capability checks.
- Optimized metadata handling to bypass background editor autosaves.
- Improved output escaping for generated metadata, attributes, and user-facing strings.
3.1.0 – 07/11/2026
- Introduced AI-powered image alt text generation through compatible WordPress AI Connectors.
- Added Context AI actions for individual images to generate context-aware alternative text using image analysis and available website and linked content context.
- Added AI model selection and customizable prompts through the new AI Settings page.
- Added the Alt Text Manager for auditing media library images with missing alternative text.
3.0.0 – 05/11/2026
- Introduced a unified administration header with AF Themes branding, plugin version information, and responsive module navigation.
- Added the Speed Booster control center with database write throttling, post revision limits, editor autosave interval controls, Heartbeat API frequency settings, selective block library CSS removal, and video iframe lazy loading.
- Added Content Monitor and Link Monitor modules.
- Improved database maintenance with dry-run scanning and batched cleanup operations for selected revisions, expired transients, spam comments, and orphaned post metadata.
- Improved system diagnostics for loopback requests, REST API accessibility, PHP extensions, and scheduled tasks.
- Added database table conversion support from MyISAM to InnoDB.
- Added a live social sharing preview for supported social platforms.
- Added webmaster verification settings for Google Search Console, Bing, Yandex, and Pinterest.
- Improved SEO schema compatibility checks for supported SEO plugins.
- Added publisher metadata settings, including Google News keywords, copyright attribution URLs, and RSS content attribution footers.
- Added a recommended free themes showcase for AF Themes.
- Improved administration layout, input sanitization, capability checks, and modular code organization.
2.2.0 – 15/09/2026
- Fixed a security vulnerability in the demo import file upload process that could allow unauthorized file uploads and privilege escalation.
- Improved file upload security by restricting uploads to allowed MIME types.
- Improved demo import security and validation for content, widget, and customizer files.
- Fixed an undefined array key warning in the demo import process.
- Added support for displaying demos based on the selected demo import conditions.
- Improved compatibility with all AF Themes plans.
- Improved plugin code structure and maintainability.
- Improved admin menu organization.
- Fixed issues with manually uploaded files during demo import.
- Added additional security checks for file uploads.
- Security fix reported by Farhan Fawwaz Saputra and coordinated with WPScan/Jetpack.
2.0.0 – 01/05/2026
- Integrated the Performance & Speed Booster engine.
- Added Growth Tools for GA4, AdSense, and Meta Pixel integration.
- Added the System Status & Engine Diagnostics dashboard.
- Added automated Article Schema (JSON-LD) for SEO.
- Added core cleanup features, including disabling Emojis, oEmbeds, and XML-RPC.
- Added advanced header cleanup for RSD, WLW, and WordPress version metadata.
- Added frontend optimization, including HTML minification, asynchronous JavaScript, and font-display swap.
- Added asset management settings for jQuery Migrate and query strings.
- Added native lazy loading support.
- Added optional Gutenberg block library CSS cleanup.
- Added server health monitoring for memory, execution time, and OPcache.
- Added database health monitoring for autoloaded options, size, and overhead.
- Added analytics integrations for Hotjar and Microsoft Clarity.
- Overhauled the AF Companion dashboard UI.
- Refined One-Click Import logic for modern block themes.
- Improved error handling and diagnostic reporting.
- Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.9+ and PHP 8.2+.
1.2.6 – 25/08/2023
- Updated compatibility with PHP 8.2.
1.2.5 – 25/08/2023
- Updated compatibility with WordPress 6.3.
1.2.4 – 27/04/2023
- Updated compatibility with WordPress 6.2.
1.2.3 – 06/01/2023
- Updated compatibility with WordPress 6.1.1.
1.2.2 – 20/01/2022
- Added a language file for translation.
- Updated plugin functionality.
1.2.1 – 22/12/2021
- Added a language file for translation.
- Improved security.
1.2.0 – 22/12/2021
- Fixed a
check_ajax_refererissue.
1.1.2 – 16/12/2021
- Removed unused functions.
1.1.1 – 12/11/2021
- Removed unused functions.
1.1.0 – 12/11/2021
- Added required plugin setup functionality.
1.0.6 – 15/09/2021
- Fixed demo file access issues.
1.0.5 – 13/08/2021
- Fixed WordPress Importer redeclaration issues.
- Added essential links.
1.0.4 – 19/04/2021
- Updated compatibility with WordPress 5.8.
1.0.3 – 19/04/2021
- Updated compatibility with WordPress 5.7.
1.0.2 – 19/04/2021
- Fixed the import success message.
1.0.1 – 18/04/2021
- Fixed an undefined Pro link.
1.0.0 – 16/02/2021
- Initial release.