=== Bulk Page Generator and Mass Page Builder - Page Generator ===
Contributors: n7studios,wpzinc
Donate link: https://www.wpzinc.com/plugins/page-generator-pro
Tags: landing pages, bulk page, local seo, programmatic seo, seo
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 1.8.4
License: GPLv3 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Bulk generate multiple Pages using dynamic content.

## Description

**Page Generator** is the ultimate **Bulk Page Generator**, **Mass Page Creator**, and **Mass Page Builder** for WordPress. It empowers you to generate thousands of unique, fully-optimized WordPress Pages with just a few clicks.

Designed for advanced **Local SEO** and **Programmatic SEO** strategies, this plugin automates the creation of keyword-rich content targeting any combination of services, products, and locations.

It works in 3 simple steps:

- **Define Keyword Data**: Add keyword sets (e.g. services, locations, industries) for dynamic content generation.
- **Edit Template**: Create your content layout using placeholders like `{service}`, `{location}`, and more.
- **Bulk Generate Pages**: Click generate and let the **Bulk Page Generator** handle mass content creation across your WordPress site.

Whether you're an agency scaling content for clients, or a business owner building local landing pages, **Page Generator** is the smartest **Mass Page Builder** available for WordPress.

Perfect for:

- Creating service and location-based pages for **Local SEO**
- Automating structured, templated content for **Programmatic SEO**
- Saving hours of manual page creation using a flexible **Bulk Page Generator**

Demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qPku51HNWk

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## Usage

Use **Page Generator** as your:

- **Mass Page Creator** for building hundreds of **Local SEO** location-specific pages like “Plumber in Chicago” or “Dentist in Boston”
- **Bulk Page Generator** to automate the creation of product pages, service variations, or testimonial layouts
- **Mass Page Builder** for targeting multiple regions or categories without writing unique content manually
- **Programmatic SEO** engine to build templated content at scale, driven by structured keyword inputs
- Testing utility for generating placeholder content across various layout combinations in WordPress

With this level of flexibility, **Page Generator** supports virtually every **Local SEO** and **Programmatic SEO** use case.

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## Methods

Each keyword group contains multiple values. The **Bulk Page Generator** combines these values according to the selected method:

- **All**: Produces every possible combination of keyword values, ideal for large-scale **Programmatic SEO** deployments.
- **Sequential**: Cycles through keyword values in order—useful when mapping 1-to-1 relationships between keywords.

These generation methods are essential for mass content strategies in both **Local SEO** and **Programmatic SEO**, and make **Page Generator** a powerful **Mass Page Builder** tool.

More details: [Page Generator Methods Documentation](https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/page-generator-pro/generate-methods/)

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## Full Control

Need to revise your output? The **Mass Page Creator** gives you complete control over your content:

- Instantly delete or trash previously generated content
- Use **Test Mode** to preview a single page before executing a full run
- Define limits on the number of pages generated
- Build content using blocks, HTML, shortcodes, or any layout you want

From content creation to content cleanup, **Page Generator** is a fully-featured **Mass Page Builder**, ideal for any **Bulk Page Generator** workflow tied to **Local SEO** or **Programmatic SEO** goals.

Whether you're building 10 or 10,000 pages, **Page Generator** ensures your **Mass Page Creator** strategy is fast, scalable, and SEO-friendly.
=== Pro Version ===

> <a href="https://www.wpzinc.com/plugins/page-generator-pro/" rel="friend" title="Page Generator Pro">Page Generator Pro</a> provides additional functionality:<br />
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> - **Generate Posts and Custom Post Types**<br />Create as many Generation Groups as you wish, each with different settings, for any Post Type.<br />
> - **Generate Nearby Cities, Counties, ZIP Codes and Phone Area Codes**<br />Enter a city name, country and radius to automatically build a keyword containing all nearby cities, counties, ZIP codes and/or Phone Area Codes.<br />
> - **Import Keyword Lists**<br />Import your text file and CSV keyword lists, or link to remote data<br />
> - **Build Interlinked Directory Sites**<br />Full support for hierarchical content generation and interlinking, such as Region > County > City > ZIP Code > Service.<br />
> - **Full Content Control**<br />Use WordPress' native interface to edit the Title, Permalink, Content, Excerpt, Custom Fields and more.<br />
> - **Page Builder Support**<br />Works with Ark, Avada, Avia, Beaver Builder, BeTheme, Bold, Divi, Elementor, Enfold, Flatsome, Fusion Builder, Fresh Builder, Live Composer, Muffin, Pro, SiteOrigin, Thrive Architect, Visual Composer and X.<br />
> - **Advanced Scheduling Functionality**<br />Publish content in the past, now or schedule for the future for your campaigns.<br />
> - **Powerful Content Generation**<br />Generate content in-browser, using WP-Cron or WP-CLI.<br />
> - **Overwrite or Skip Existing Generated Content**<br />Refresh existing content, correct mistakes in previously generated Pages or choose to skip already generated content to avoid duplication.<br />
> - **Embed Dynamic Images, Maps, Wikipedia and Yelp Content**<br />Dynamic shortcodes can be inserted into your content to output Google Maps, Media Library Images, OpenStreetMap, Pexels / Pixabay Images, Related Links, Wikipedia Content, Yelp! Business Listings and YouTube Videos.<br />
> - **Page and Post Attribute Support**<br />Define the Page Parent for your generated Pages.<br />
> - **Full Taxonomy Support**<br />Choose taxonomy terms to assign to your generated content, or have Page Generator Pro create new taxonomy terms.  For more dynamic content, keyword support in taxonomies is provided.<br />
>
> [Upgrade to Page Generator Pro](https://www.wpzinc.com/plugins/page-generator-pro/)

=== Support ===

We will do our best to provide support through the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/page-generator/">WordPress forums</a>.

However, please understand that this is a free plugin, so support will be limited. Please read this article on <a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-properly-ask-for-wordpress-support-and-get-it/">how to properly ask for WordPress support and get it</a>.

If you require one to one email support, consider <a href="https://www.wpzinc.com/plugins/page-generator-pro" rel="friend">upgrading to the Pro version</a>.

== Installation ==

1. Upload the `page-generator` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Active the Page Generator plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Configure the plugin by going to the `Page Generator` menu that appears in your admin menu

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= What can I use Page Generator for? =
 
Page Generator is a mass page generator (sometimes known as a mass page creator or bulk page generator) for your landing pages, personalised pages, individual specific pages and placeholder content testing.

= Does Page Generator support Page Builders? =

For best compatibility, we recommend the Pro version, which includes Page Builder support for Ark, Avada, Avia, Beaver Builder, BeTheme, Bold, Divi, Elementor, Enfold, Flatsome, Fusion Builder, Fresh Builder, Live Composer, Muffin, Pro, SiteOrigin, Thrive Architect, Visual Composer and X.

= Are there any limitations on the number of Pages? =

There are no limits on the number of Pages that can be generated with our mass page creator.  We'd recommend checking with your web host how many pages your WordPress installation will support.

== Screenshots ==

1. Keywords table
2. Editing a Keyword
3. Editing Content Group Template
4. Viewing a generated WordPress Page

== Changelog ==

= 1.8.4 (2026-04-02) =
* Updated: Dashboard submodule

= 1.8.3 (2026-03-07) =
* Fix: Updated upgrade notices

= 1.8.2 (2026-02-12) =
* Added: Keywords: Instructions for permitted characters when specifying a Keyword name
* Fix: Notices: Escape HTML in notices correctly
* Fix: Content Group: Display correct Plugin Name
* Updated: Dashboard submodule

= 1.8.1 (2025-12-03) =
* Fix: Keywords: Add / Edit: Set ID on Source dropdown for accessiblity
* Updated: Dashboard submodule

= 1.8.0 (2025-06-26) =
* Fix: Keywords: Don't display confirmation dialog twice when using Bulk Actions below Keywords table

= 1.7.9 (2025-06-24) =
* Added: Developer: Keywords: `page_generator_pro_keywords_save` filter before saving a Keyword
* Added: Keywords: Confirmation dialog when deleting Keywords

= 1.7.8 (2025-04-23) =
* Fix: Notice: Function `_load_textdomain_just_in_time` was called incorrectly in WordPress 6.8 and higher

= 1.7.7 (2025-03-27) =
* Updated: Coding standards

= 1.7.6 (2025-02-27) =
* Added: Optimized admin CSS for better performance

= 1.7.5 (2025-02-19) =
* Added: Updated UI and icon

= 1.7.4 (2024-11-18) =
* Fix: Keyword Autocompleters: Improved performance by conditionally re-initializing autocompleters

= 1.7.3 (2024-07-22) =
* Fix: Generate: Content: Improve performance when `Rotate Authors` option is enabled.

= 1.7.2 (2023-10-26) =
* Fix: Keywords: Use sanitize_sql_orderby() when defining order and order by parameters

= 1.7.1 (2023-09-07) =
* Fix: Updated dashboard submodule

= 1.7.0 (2023-08-23) =
* Fix: Updated WordPress Coding Standards to 3.0.0

= 1.6.9 (2023-08-03) =
* Fix: PHP Deprecated notices in PHP 8.2

= 1.6.8 (2023-01-26) =
* Notice: PHP 7.4 is the minimum required version
* Added: Generate: Content: Keyword Autocomplete: Gutenberg: Support for Keyword Autocomplete on Title field
* Added: Generate: Content: Check ID is a Content Group, and show an error if not
* Fix: Keyword Autocompleters: Don't initialize in Gutenberg / Block Editor text blocks when editing Pages or Posts
* Fix: Keywords: Save: Replace utf8_encode() with mb_convert_encoding() for PHP 8.2 compatibility
* Fix: Generate: Content: Replace utf8_encode() with mb_convert_encoding() for PHP 8.2 compatibility
* Fix: Generate: Content: Keyword Autocomplete: Don't initialize if no Keywords defined
* Fix: Generate: Content: Keywords: PHP Deprecated notice for count() and getIterator()

= 1.6.7 (2022-07-14) =
* Fix: Error loading taxonomy class when adding/editing Post Categories or Tags

= 1.6.6.3 (2022-06-25)=
* Fix: Generate: Test Mode: Display link to test page

= 1.6.6.2 (2022-06-21) =
* Fix: Coding Standards: Provide specific reasons when ignoring a coding standard

= 1.6.6.1 (2022-06-21) =
* Fix: Keywords: Process form data with nonce verification outside of views folder

= 1.6.6 (2022-06-21) =
* Added: Generate via Browser: Show dialog confirmation if navigating away from generation window whilst generation is running
* Added: Generate via Browser: Remove 'Generating' flag on Content Group if navigated away from generation window whilst generation is running
* Fix: Keywords: Add/Edit: Strip slashes from quotation marks when adding/editing a Keyword fails validation
* Fix: Keywords: Search: Strip slashes from 'Search results for' label
* Fix: Generate: Content: Test Mode: Honor Resume Index when using Test button in Gutenberg editor
* Fix: Ensure code meets WordPress Coding Standards

= 1.6.4 (2022-06-09) =
* Added: Support for WordPress 6.0

= 1.6.3 (2022-05-12) =
* Fix: Multisite: Activation: Conditionally load required hook depending on WordPress version

= 1.6.2 (2022-04-24) =
* Fix: Upgrade link would incorrectly redirect to WordPress Admin dashboard

= 1.6.1 (2022-03-14) =
* Fix: Generate via Browser: Call to a member function get_parameters() on null
* Fix: Undefined variable: minified

= 1.6.0 (2022-03-03) =
* Added: Keywords: Add/Edit: Use WordPress Code Editor for Terms for improved editing, readibility and search
* Added: Generate: Content: Permalink: Validate that Keyword syntax is valid prior to Test / Generation
* Added: Generate: Content: Keyword Autocomplete: Classic Editor: Up and down keys can be used to select highlighted autocomplete suggestion
* Added: Generate: Content: Keyword Autocomplete: Classic Editor: Insert first displayed Keyword suggestion when enter key pressed
* Fix: Generate: Content: Keyword Autocomplete: Classic Editor: Don't show autocompleter when left square bracket key pressed
* Fix: Generate: Content: Detect Keywords in Gutenberg Blocks and Page Builders that use nested JSON strings to store data
* Fix: Multisite: Activation: Use wp_insert_site hook when available in WordPress 5.1 and higher

= 1.5.9 (2021-09-17) =
* Fix: Keywords: Correctly escape Keyword name

= 1.5.8 =
* Added: Generate: Content: All Method.  See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/page-generator-pro/generate-methods/
* Fix: Don't minify Plugin Javascript if a third party minification Plugin is active
* Fix: Keyword Autocompleters: Don't initialize autocompletors if no Keywords have been specified

= 1.5.7 =
* Added: Localization support, with .pot file and translators comments
* Added: Generate via Browser: Clear log after 100 entries to improve browser and generation performance
* Fix: Keywords: Autocomplete: Don't strip commas from existing field when selecting a Keyword from the autocomplete dropdown list
* Fix: Keywords: Cache calls made to get_keywords_and_columns() for the request lifecycle, to reduce duplicate queries and improve performance
* Fix: Keywords: Uncaught Error: Class 'League\Csv\Reader' not found
* Fix: Generate: Content: Reduce database requests for Generated Count and Last Index during generation to improve performance for larger sites
* Fix: Generate: Content: Prevent memory usage increasing by flushing WordPress' Term cache occasionally during generation
* Fix: Generate: Content: Delete Generated Content: PHP Warnings or AJAX errors when no Generated Content exists
* Fix: Generate: Content: Test: URL would wrongly result in 404, even when Test Page/Post was successfully generated
* Fix: Generate: Content: Gutenberg: Don't encode special characters in third party blocks
* Fix: Generate: Content: Detect Non-lowercase Keywords and replace them with Terms
* Fix: Generate: Content: PHP Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object
* Fix: Generate: Content: Classic Editor: Bottom Actions Meta Box: Ensure Generate, Trash and Delete buttons perform action when clicked
* Fix: Generate via Browser: Display Start and End Index in counter correctly when Resume Index and/or No. Posts specified
* Fix: Generate: Content: Autocomplete: Title: Keyword suggestions hidden behind Classic Editor
* Fix: Generate: Content: Classic Editor: Autocomplete: Ensure autocomplete suggestions box height does not exceed 120px and is scrollable
* Fix: Generate: Content: Strip HTML tags from Keyword Term Log Output, to avoid browser memory errors
* Fix: bbPress: Settings: Forums: Forum Root: Fatal error

= 1.5.6 =
* Added: Keywords: Add/Edit: Don't wrap a single Term onto multiple lines
* Fix: Keywords: Add/Edit: Validation: Improved error messages when validating field values
* Fix: Keywords: Add/Edit: Use <label> for field names for accessibility
* Fix: Keywords: Edit: Form field values wouldn't display immediately after correcting a validation error and successfully saving
* Fix: Keywords: Typo on table when no Keywords exist
* Added: Generate: Content: Trash and Delete Generated Content will Trash / Delete in batches to avoid timeouts
* Fix: Generate: Content: Gutenberg: Don't remove Permalink field on non-Content Group Post Types
* Fix: Generate: Content: Set Author as current logged in WordPress User if none is specified
* Fix: Generate: Content: Ensure Author or Random Author specified prior to Generation.  See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/page-generator-pro/generate-content/#fields--author

= 1.5.5 =
* Added: Generate: Content: Publish draft Content Group immediately before Test, Generate or Generate via Browser to ensure generation works in Gutenberg
* Added: Generate: Content: Prevent Preview of Content Group. Use Test functionality to test output
* Added: Keywords: Screen Options to define Keywords per Page
* Fix: Keywords: Retain Search, Order and Order By parameters when using Pagination

= 1.5.4 =
* Added: Generate: Content: Developer Actions.  See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/page-generator-pro/developers/
* Added: Forms: Accessibility: Replaced Titles with <label> elements that focus the given input element on click
* Added: Performance: Only load required Plugin classes depending on the request type
* Fix: Generate: Don't attempt to replace Keywords that don't exist
* Fix: CSS: Renamed option class to wpzinc-option to avoid CSS conflicts with third party Plugins
* Fix: Generate: Improved Performance by ~80% when using ~10,000+ Keyword Terms and/or Keyword Transformations, Columns and nth Terms.
* Fix: Activation: Prevent DB character set / collation errors on table creation by using WordPress' native get_charset_collate()
* Fix: Generate: Content: Keyword Dropdown: Ensure width does not exceed meta box
* Fix: Generate: Content: Keyword Dropdown: Ensure height does not exceed 120px and is scrollable
* Fix: Keywords: Could not Save Keyword when defining several columns that would exceed 200 characters in total length 

= 1.5.3 =
* Added: Keywords: Keyword Names can include any language
* Fix: Keywords: Terms: Remove empty newlines
* Fix: Keywords: Database error: Field 'columns doesn't have a default value

= 1.5.2 =
* Added: Generate: Content: Verbose logging on Generation
* Added: Generate: Content: Metaboxes are no longer filtered out or removed, ensuring better third party Theme / Plugin compatibility (e.g. SEO Plugins)
* Added: Generate: Content: Autocomplete Keyword Suggestions displayed when typing in Title and Permalink fields 
* Added: Generate: Content: TinyMCE: Autocomplete Keyword Suggestions displayed when typing "{"
* Added: Generate: Content: Gutenberg Blocks: Autocomplete Keyword Suggestions displayed when typing
* Added: Generate: Content: Warning when specifying a static Permalink
* Added: Generate: Content: Trash / Delete Generated Content options if Generated Content exists
* Added: Generate: Content: Test: Verbose errors displayed on generated test Page / Post
* Fix: Keywords: Aligned "Search results for" label correctly when searching for Keywords
* Fix: Generate: Content: Only attempt to UTF-8 Post Excerpt when Page Generation fails and the Post Type supports Excerpts
* Fix: Generate: Content: Trim setting values to avoid failures
* Fix: Generate: Content: Renamed Remove Trackbacks and Pingbacks to Remove Track / Pingbacks, to avoid text overflowing in the UI
* Fix: Generate: Content: Gutenberg: Don't display Gutenberg's Permalink Panel in the sidebar, as it's not used.
* Fix: Generate: Content: Only fetch Group Settings once, to improve performance
* Fix: Generate: Content: Only fetch Keywords once, to improve performance
* Fix: Generate: Ensure progress bar styles don't override other styles in the WordPress Admin UI
* Fix: Removed unused logging from Javascript
* Fix: Localization strings

= 1.5.1 =
* Added: Generate: Content: Optimized performance for generation
* Fix: Compatibility when using multiple WP Zinc Plugins
* Fix: Only load JS when required for performance
* Fix: Activation: Fix ‘Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes’ error on Keyword Table creation for MySQL 5.6 and lower 
* Fix: Generate: Content: Undefined index: group_id Javascript errors
* Fix: Generate: Content: Author field search failing
* Fix: Minified all CSS and JS for performance

= 1.5.0 =
* Fix: Fatal error on Plugin Activation

= 1.4.9 =
* Added: Success and Error Notices can be dismissed
* Fix: Generate: Honor Page Template Setting
* Fix: Keywords: Ensure that Sorting Keywords in the table doesn't re-trigger a duplicate or delete event
* Fix: Activation: Don't specify ENGINE on CREATE TABLE syntax
* Fix: Multisite: Network Activation: Ensure database tables are automatically created on all existing sites
* Fix: Multisite: Network Activation: Ensure database tables are automatically created on new sites created after Network Activation of Plugin
* Fix: Multisite: Site Activation: Ensure database tables are created
* Fix: UI Enhancements for mobile compatibility
* Fix: ACF and Divi compatibility
* Fix: Generate: Action Buttons CSS to ensure buttons aren't cut off
* Fix: Removed all select2 references, as select2 is no longer used 
* Fix: Keywords: Allow Keywords to be sorted ascending and descending when clicking Keywords column in table

= 1.4.8 =
* Added: Generate Content: Test, Generate and Delete Generated Content Actions in Sidebar for Gutenberg Editor
* Added: Generate Content: Gutenberg Compatibility
* Added: Keywords: Use native wpdb class insert(), update() and delete() functions when creating, updating and deleting Keywords
* Added: Generate: Content: Yoast SEO: Prevent Yoast SEO stripping curly braces from Canonical URL
* Added: Generate: Output: Display Keywords + Term Replacements used in each Page Generation
* Fix: Generate Content: Gutenberg: Save all Settings 
* Fix: Generate Content: Initialize array in a PHP 5+ compatible manner
* Fix: Generate Content: Ignore _wp_page_template if supplied in Post Meta; this ensures the Content Group's Page Template is always honored.
* Fix: Generate Content: Improved error message in Test and Generate mode when the total number of possible keyword term combinations exceeds PHP's floating point limit.
* Fix: Generate Content: Confirmation Dialogs localized for translation
* Fix: Generate Content: Correctly replace keywords when using PHP versions older than 5.5.x (please upgrade to PHP 7 - PHP 5.x is end of life January 1st 2019: http://php.net/supported-versions.php)
* Fix: Generate Content: Author field now uses selectize asynchronous search for better performance on sites with a large number of WordPress Users
* Fix: Exclude Content Groups from Yoast SEO Sitemaps, regardless of Yoast settings

= 1.4.7 =
* Fix: Call wp_enqueue_media() on Plugin screens, because Plugins which register Meta Boxes and Yoast SEO wrongly assume that there is always a Visual Editor and Featured Image on a Post Type

= 1.4.6 =
* Added: Don't initialize plugin if the Pro version is installed; prevents 500 internal server errors when users wrongly attempt to run both Free + Pro versions at the same time
* Added: show_in_rest = false for Content Groups, until we're happy that the Gutenberg editor is stable in WordPress 
* Added: Generate: Output: Display Keywords + Term Replacements used in each Page and Post Generation 
* Fix: Generate: Use date_i18n() instead of date() to ensure that published Posts honor WordPress' locale
* Fix: Generate: Attributes: Only display Template option if the Post Type has registered templates available
* Fix: Generate: Prevent Preview / View of Group on frontend, which results in errors (use 'Test' method instead)
* Fix: Keywords: Prevent spaces in Keywords
* Fix: Generate: Prevent spaces in Permalink
* Fix: Code formatting

= 1.4.5 =
* Fix: Generate: Fatal error when using certain Themes

= 1.4.4 =
* Added: Post Type Template Support (WordPress 4.7+)
* Added: Generate: Support for large keyword term combinations in All mode (e.g. 100 million+ pages). Requires PHP 5.5+
* Fix: Keywords: Prevent spaces in Keywords
* Fix: Generate: Prevent spaces in Permalink
* Fix: Code formatting
* Fix: Generate: Use date_i18n() instead of date() to ensure that published Posts honor WordPress' locale
* Fix: 404 errors on generated Pages when Page Parent was previous set and then removed

= 1.4.3 =
* Added: Improved UI
* Fix: Uncaught TypeError: Illegal constructor in admin-min.js for clipboard.js functionality

= 1.4.2 =
* Fix: Generate: Blank screen for some users

= 1.4.1 =
* Fix: Undefined variable errors

= 1.4.0 =
* Fix: Only display Review Helper for Super Admin and Admin

= 1.3.9 =
* Added: Review Helper to check if the user needs help
* Updated: Dashboard Submodule

= 1.3.8 =
* Added: Version bump to match Pro version, using same core codebase and UI for basic features. Fixes several oustanding bugs
* Added: Post Type: Use variable for Post Type Name for better abstraction
* Fix: Generate: Don't attempt to test for permitted meta boxes if none exist
* Fix: Generate: Check Custom Fields are set before running checks on them
* Fix: Use Plugin Name variable for better abstraction
* Fix: Improved Installation and Upgrade routines

= 1.0.6 =
* Fix: Changed branding from WP Cube to WP Zinc

= 1.0.5 =
* Fix: Display keywords in keyword table

= 1.0.4 =
* Tested with WordPress 4.3
* Fix: plugin_dir_path() and plugin_dir_url() used for Multisite / symlink support

= 1.0.3 =
* Fix: Dashboard errors
* Fix: Changed Menu Icon
* Fix: WordPress 4.0 compatibility

= 1.0.2 =
* Added: Support for HTML elements in keyword data

= 1.0.1 =
* Added translation support and .pot file

= 1.0 =
* First release.

== Upgrade Notice ==