NovaStream SEO

NovaStream's WordPress SEO plugin.

Requirements

• WordPress 6.5 or newer is recommended for native plugin-dependency handling.
• Advanced Custom Fields Pro must be installed and active separately.

ACF Pro is intentionally not bundled with this plugin. WordPress can enforce the dependency when ACF Pro uses its standard advanced-custom-fields-pro plugin directory. A runtime check also prevents fatal errors and displays an administrator notice on older or manually managed installations.

Updates and releases

The plugin uses Plugin Update Checker 5.7 to follow stable, non-prerelease GitHub releases and tags. Commits on main are not a production release by themselves. Do not add a GitHub token, deploy key, or other credential to the plugin: every file shipped with a WordPress plugin must be treated as public.

To publish a release:

1. Update both version declarations in seo.php.
2. Merge the release commit into main.
3. Create a matching Git tag and GitHub release (for example, 1.1.9).
4. Verify the update from a WordPress installation before broad deployment.

The repository must remain public for credential-free update checks and downloads to work on installed sites.

The updater is vendored at vendor/plugin-update-checker. When upgrading it, copy the official runtime package and retain its MIT license.txt; do not copy examples, build scripts, or development configuration into this plugin.

Security

Never commit credentials, even when the repository is private or the value is encoded. If a credential is committed, revoke it first and then remove it from all branches and tags before making the repository public.