Version history

Every release, on the record.

What each version of WP Markdown Endpoint added, changed and fixed — newest first. Licence holders get every update within their licence term; lifetime licences get every update, full stop.

v1.1.1

Current release 9 August 2026
  • New

    Clean content mode — strip subscription forms, related-post blocks, promotional banners and other theme/plugin injections from machine documents by rendering article content through WordPress core filters only. Off by default and fully reversible, with an mde_content_html filter for custom control.

  • New

    AI discovery manifest (Pro) at /.well-known/ai-content.json — a compact machine-readable description of your site's content interface: publisher, canonical, URL patterns and discovery endpoints. A WP Markdown Endpoint convention, clearly declared as such in the document itself — not an industry standard.

  • New

    Feed items now always carry a summary (the hand-written excerpt, or a clean trim of the content), plus authors, featured image and tags — an agent can triage the feed without fetching fifty articles.

  • Changed

    llms.txt lists the 30 most recent documents instead of 200 and points at the Markdown sitemap and AI feed for the rest — a small discovery document, not an index.

  • Fixed

    HTML entities no longer leak into JSON taxonomy fields ("Oil & Gas"); root-relative link and image URLs are absolutised; and two settings saves within the same second now both invalidate the output cache.

v1.1.0

9 August 2026
  • New

    Structured JSON endpoint (Pro) — every document now also answers on .json: title, publisher, author, ISO-8601 published/modified timestamps, canonical/markdown/json URLs, categories, tags, excerpt, featured image and the Markdown body. Fields that don't exist are omitted, never fabricated.

  • New

    AI news feed (Pro) — a JSON Feed 1.1 of your latest content at /feed/ai/ (application/feed+json) and /feed/ai.json (application/json). Each item links its canonical page, .md and .json versions, with timestamps, summary, tags and category.

  • New

    Machine-format discovery — eligible HTML articles now advertise their .md and .json twins with link rel="alternate" tags and matching Link response headers. Toggleable, on by default, included in free.

  • New

    Front matter upgraded to the agent-publishing shape — publisher, ISO-8601 published and modified timestamps, primary category, an optional format label (e.g. "news") and language, alongside the existing fields. The 1.0 date field is kept so nothing parsing it breaks.

  • New

    llms.txt now documents the whole machine interface — the .md/.json URL patterns, the AI feed, RSS and sitemaps — instead of only listing documents.

  • Changed

    Delivery rebuilt for scale: machine documents are now publicly cacheable (Cache-Control, ETag, Last-Modified, 304 conditional requests) instead of forcibly uncacheable, and carry X-Robots-Tag: noindex with a canonical Link header — so CDNs cache them and they can never compete with your HTML page in search.

  • Changed

    Cache invalidation now also fires on scheduled publishing, trash and every status transition, and clears the .json and feed caches alongside the Markdown.

  • Fixed

    YAML front matter could emit invalid YAML when a title contained a line break.

v1.0.0

16 July 2026
  • New

    First release: .md endpoint for posts and pages, toggleable metadata lines, author display override, lightweight HTML-to-Markdown converter with fenced code blocks, live-preview settings screen. Pro: custom post types, per-post disable, YAML front matter, excerpt + featured image, table conversion, output cache, Markdown sitemap, llms.txt manifest.

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