I ran XEOscan on emdashbuilder.cc after installing the emdash-geo-seo plugin. The scores came back strong — 92/100 for AI citation-readiness and 95/100 for classic SEO. Here is what the plugin actually does and what the numbers mean.
I wanted this site to show up in two places: Google search results, the way blogs always have, and inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini answers, the way blogs increasingly need to. emdash-geo-seo is the plugin I wrote to do both from a single source of truth, with an admin UI and zero redeploy to change a setting.
0.6.0 to 0.8.0 in one hop. Three packages bumped, every test green, deploy clean — and then the admin came back with "EmDash is not initialized." One migration in 0.8 thought it had work to do that the database had already done. Here is what 0.7 and 0.8 shipped, and how the bump actually went.
My last upgrade ended with "four problems, one clean deploy." This one had one — a stale lockfile of my own making. Here is what 0.6.0 shipped and how the bump actually went.
Why I put tracking snippets in a CMS plugin instead of a layout, which plugin format I picked and why, and a few things that cost me time along the way.
I leap-frogged from 0.1.1 straight to 0.3.0. Here's the full play-by-play — two sets of release notes I inherited, four small problems I had to solve, and one clean deploy.
EmDash ships its first patch release. Here's what changed, what broke at the type level, and the small adjustments needed to migrate an existing site.