Release notes
Changelog
Feature releases, workflow improvements, and updates to the MerchantDrafts plugin. Major releases are versioned. Incremental changes are grouped by month.
v1.4
May 2025
Manufacturers Workspace & Batch Generation
New: Manufacturers Workspace
A dedicated workspace for reviewing, editing, and generating content across all WooCommerce manufacturer entries from a central list view. Mirrors the Categories Workspace pattern.
New: Batch generation for categories and manufacturers
Workspace batch runs now support categories and manufacturers, not just products. Generation resolves the correct prompt layers per entry automatically.
Improved: Prompt layer resolution in batch runs
Mixed-category and mixed-manufacturer batch jobs now correctly resolve Category Context and Manufacturer Description per item rather than using a single resolved value for the whole batch.
Fix: Review drawer state on large batches
The review drawer no longer loses scroll position when switching between products in batches exceeding 50 items.
v1.3
March 2025
Opportunity Radar & Writing Patterns
New: Opportunity Radar
A catalogue intelligence layer that surfaces products with missing or thin content so operators know where to focus generation effort. Filters by field coverage gaps across the WooCommerce product list.
New: Writing Pattern prompt layer
A store-level Settings field for defining sentence rhythm, vocabulary register, and formatting preferences. Applied automatically to every generation run alongside Business Context.
Improved: Settings layout
All prompt layer fields — Business Context, Writing Pattern, Category Context, Manufacturer Description — are now grouped under a dedicated Prompt Layers section in Settings for clearer configuration.
Improved: Generation Controls panel
The left-side generation controls now show which store-level layers are active for the current product before generation runs, giving operators visibility into the assembled context.
v1.2
January 2025
Categories Workspace & Image Fields
New: Categories Workspace
A dedicated workspace for generating and reviewing content across all WooCommerce category entries. Supports bulk generation with per-category prompt layer resolution.
New: Image field generation
Generation now covers product image fields — alt text, title, caption, and description — alongside the main copy package so media metadata can be handled in the same workflow.
New: BYOK (Bring Your Own Key)
Operators can supply their own OpenAI or Anthropic API key. Requests made using BYOK are routed directly to the provider without passing through MerchantDrafts hosted infrastructure.
Fix: Writeback field targeting
Resolved an issue where writeback would overwrite the wrong description field when both short and long description were generated in the same run. Each field now maps to its correct WooCommerce target.
v1.1
November 2024
Products Workspace & Prompt Layers Foundation
New: Products Workspace
A filterable list view for processing multiple products in batch. Supports filtered selection, batch generation, and a review drawer for approving or rejecting output before writeback.
New: Category Context & Manufacturer Description
Per-category and per-manufacturer prompt layer fields added to Settings. Resolved automatically per product at generation time — no manual per-product configuration needed.
New: Description Length control
A per-run control added to the generation controls panel for setting output length (short, medium, detailed). Applies to long description and short description independently.
Improved: Tone control options
Tone selector expanded from three options to six, covering: neutral, professional, conversational, confident, editorial, and technical.
v1.0
September 2024
Initial release
Product content generation
Generate product titles, short descriptions, long descriptions, and meta descriptions from the WooCommerce product editor. Review before writeback — no content is pushed live until the operator approves it.
Business Context & Writing Pattern (foundation)
Store-level Settings fields for brand voice and structural style. Applied automatically to every generation run as the baseline prompt layer stack.
Generation controls: Tone & What to Emphasize
Per-run controls added to the left-side generation panel. Tone and What to Emphasize narrow the output within the stored context layers without changing Settings.
Lifestyle Images (foundation)
Initial scene generation workflow for product visuals. Set a scene prompt, generate lifestyle images from the product context, and attach them to WooCommerce product media.