Dirigible AI changelog

0.0.69 2026-10-25

Added

• Generate alt text from the page editor. In the theme's Accessibility panel, each image with missing or file-name alt text gets a Generate alt text button. The suggestion appears in the panel to check and edit; Use puts it on the image in the page, and saves it to the Media Library too when you can edit that image, so other pages using it pick it up. Nothing changes until you click Use. Editors and Authors can use it (anyone who can upload files and edit the page), not only Administrators. It uses the site's OpenRouter key and alt text model, and each person can generate up to 50 suggestions a day. Developers: the dirigible_ai_editor_alt_daily_cap filter changes the limit (0 turns the button off).

Security

• The new editor actions check that the user can upload files, edit the page, and see the image; saving to the Media Library also needs permission to edit that image. They use only the site's own key and model (nothing sent from the browser), and the daily limit is counted in one database update, so parallel requests can't run past it. The Media Library tools stay Administrator only.

0.0.68 2026-10-21

Changed

• AI Alt Text and AI Focal Points show their "Generation Completed" message as the same notices as the rest of the Dirigible dashboard. When a run stops early, the message stays until you dismiss it.
• AI Excerpts shows the results of saving, resetting and removing excerpts as dashboard notices instead of browser pop-ups. Errors and failed requests stay until you dismiss them.

0.0.67 2026-10-19

Fixed

• The plugin is called Dirigible AI Alt Text again, so sites still on 0.0.61 are offered updates: since the rename to Dirigible AI in 0.0.62, the update server hasn't recognised it, and those sites missed every release since (including the switch away from the Gemini 2.5 models OpenRouter retires on October 20, 2026). Settings, license and the tools are unchanged.

0.0.66 2026-10-14

Security

• Post text and uploads sent to the AI can no longer close the block that marks them as content to describe, however the tag is written (spacing, capitals, HTML entities or full-width brackets).

0.0.65 2026-10-14

Changed

• AI alt text is more useful to screen reader users: it uses the image's title, caption and the page it was uploaded to, writes in your site's language, gives the words of signs, posters and screenshots, names logos ("Acme logo"), says what a chart shows, and doesn't guess people's names, age or background. Stray quotation marks and openers like "Image of" are removed.
• The image is sent to the AI as a file instead of a link, so alt text and focal points also work on staging, password-protected and maintenance-mode sites.
• Excerpts and SEO descriptions are written in your site's language, use only facts from the post, and SEO descriptions are kept to 160 characters. A post with almost no text gets a message instead of an excerpt made up from the title.

Fixed

• When the OpenRouter key has reached its spending limit, the message says so (instead of saying the key wasn't accepted), and Generate All stops.
• Text on the page or in an upload (post text, captions, SVG files, visitor comments when summarising the live page) can't steer what the AI writes.

0.0.64 2026-10-14

Changed

• The recommended model is now Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. OpenRouter retires Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, Flash and Pro on October 20, 2026. Sites that chose one of those, or another model OpenRouter has removed, switch to its replacement automatically, with nothing to re-save. The model lists are refreshed.
• Generate All Alt Text works on three images at a time instead of one, waits and retries an image when the AI service is busy, and stops early, saying why, when the API key isn't accepted, the account is out of credits or the model isn't available.
• Each card on the AI Alt Text screen shows whether its alt text was Generated by the AI or written by hand (Manual). Generate All never replaces Manual alt text and says how many images it skipped. Alt text from before this update counts as Manual.

Fixed

• Automatic alt text no longer fails silently. If the chosen model can't be used, it tries once with the recommended model, and any other failure (no credits, rejected key) shows a notice on the Media Library and the AI Alt Text screen.
• Error messages say what went wrong (out of credits, rejected key, busy service, retired model) instead of "Check your API key and model".
• Models that think before answering (for example Gemini 3.8 Flash) no longer return empty or cut-off alt text, excerpts and focal points. A reply that was cut off is never saved.
• Saving alt text that hasn't changed no longer reports an error.

0.0.63 2026-10-08

Security

• AI-generated text in the plugin's admin screens is always escaped, including inside attributes.

Added

• Images the AI can't describe after three tries are marked Skipped on the AI Alt Text screen and in the Media Library. Background retries are paced (at most 20 a day per site), a short AI-service outage no longer ends them, and Generate All counts only images it actually described.

Fixed

• AI error messages already saved as Media Library alt text are cleared in the background and the image is tried again. Only text that reads like an AI error message is cleared (alt text a person typed, such as "No image available", is left alone), each change can be undone, and text already copied into pages by Image blocks isn't touched.
• AI replies such as "Please provide the image you would like me to describe." are never saved as alt text, excerpts or SEO descriptions.

0.0.62 2026-10-08

Changed

• The plugin is now called Dirigible AI, since it does more than alt text: AI Alt Text, AI Excerpts, AI Featured Images and AI Focal Points. Only the name changed: your settings, license and updates carry on as before, and the tools keep their names under Dirigible.

0.0.61 2026-10-01

Changed

• Update checks use the Dirigible theme's license handling, so a plugin with no license key no longer sends an empty one.

Fixed

• Generated alt text, excerpts, SEO descriptions and photo credits keep any backslash in the AI's reply.
• Excerpts and SEO descriptions saved from the AI panel keep backslashes you type.

0.0.60 2026-09-30

Security

• Updates come only from Dirigible: WordPress no longer matches this plugin to a WordPress.org listing with the same name.

Changed

• The installable zip is smaller: build sources, source maps, right-to-left stylesheets and Markdown are no longer shipped. Nothing sites load changed.

Fixed

• A visitor who lands while the plugin is being updated sees "This site is updating, refresh in a minute" instead of a critical error, and error replies never include server file paths.

0.0.59 2026-09-23

Added

• Builder-facing docs for Dirigible → AI Alt Text: getting started, generate missing alt text (Generate All vs per-card Generate and Save), and automatic alt text on upload.

0.0.58 2026-09-22

Changed

• Excerpts toolbar drops the Posts label and splits the remaining controls into equal columns, with Generate All as the primary button on the right.
• Reset Generated Excerpts moves into the Danger Zone next to Remove All Excerpts. Both actions are dark red buttons with aligned icons. The note distinguishes a reset, which keeps hand-written copy, from Remove All.

0.0.55 2026-09-21

Changed

• AI Alt Text, Excerpts, Featured Images, and Focal Points use a two-column Tools layout with sticky config accordions, quiet radio/checkbox rows, helper text inside rows, list/2/3 density switcher, aspect-ratio figures, Danger Zone under results, and a four-stat summary row.
• Admin page titles drop the redundant “Dirigible” prefix; suite pages share density and accordion scripts and enqueue theme admin-docs CSS when available.

0.0.45 2026-09-11

Changed

• Update featured-images.

0.0.44 2026-09-08

Changed

• Version bump (1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)).

0.0.43 2026-07-13

Added

• Add files: editor-seo.js.

Changed

• Update editor-excerpt.

0.0.40 2026-07-13

Added

• Add files: editor-excerpt.js, auto-alt.php.

Changed

• Update admin.

0.0.37 2026-07-10

Changed

• Update admin, excerpts, featured-images, focal-points.

0.0.35 2026-07-07

Changed

• Update featured-images.

0.0.34 2026-06-29

Changed

• Update admin, excerpts.

0.0.32 2026-06-22

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)).

0.0.31 2026-06-09

Changed

• Update admin, excerpts.

0.0.30 2026-06-08

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)).

0.0.29 2026-06-08

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)).

0.0.28 2026-06-08

Added

• Add files: focal-points.js, lock-solid-full.svg, pen-to-square-solid-full.svg.

Changed

• Update admin, excerpts.

0.0.26 2026-06-05

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)).

0.0.25 2026-06-05

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)).

0.0.24 2026-06-05

Changed

• Update admin, excerpts.

0.0.22 2026-06-05

Added

• Add files: arrows-rotate-solid-full.svg, trash-solid-full.svg, wand-magic-sparkles-solid-full.svg.

Changed

• Update admin, excerpts, featured-images.

0.0.21 2026-06-05

Added

• Add files: featured-images.js.

Changed

• Update admin, excerpts.

0.0.19 2026-06-04

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)).

0.0.18 2026-06-04

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)).

0.0.17 2026-06-04

Changed

• Update excerpts.

0.0.16 2026-06-04

Changed

• Update excerpts.

0.0.15 2026-06-04

Added

• Add files: excerpts.js.

Changed

• Update admin.

0.0.13 2026-06-04

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)).

0.0.12 2026-06-04

Changed

• Update admin.

0.0.11 2026-06-03

Changed

• Update admin.

0.0.10 2026-06-03

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)).

0.0.9 2026-06-03

Changed

• Update admin.

0.0.8 2025-11-26

Added

• Add 1000 oiption

Changed

• Update admin.

0.0.4 2025-11-24

Added

• Add files: CHANGELOG.md, arrows-rotate-solid-full.svg, editor-excerpt.js, editor-seo.js, excerpts.js, and 7 more.

Changed

• Update README, admin.