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ThinkRank AI SEO – AI SEO Plugin for WordPress: Schema, XML Sitemaps, Meta Tags, Search Console & Local SEO v2.9.0
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← All changes | includes/seo/class-site-identity-manager.php +395 -19 2.4.0 → 2.9.0 View file →
@@ -40,8 +40,36 @@
40 40 */
41 41 class Site_Identity_Manager extends Abstract_SEO_Manager {
42 42
43 43 /**
44 + * The per-context title formats as ThinkRank ships them.
45 + *
46 + * These are not in get_default_settings(): the admin screen seeds them on
47 + * first save, so on a real install they are stored values, indistinguishable
48 + * from a template the user typed. The migration needs to tell those two
49 + * apart — it may overwrite a shipped default with an imported template, and
50 + * must never overwrite a choice the user made — so this is the record of
51 + * what "untouched" looks like.
52 + *
53 + * Keep in step with getDefaultSettings() in
54 + * src/admin/components/essential-seo/SiteIdentityTab.js. SiteIdentityTitleFormatDefaultsTest
55 + * fails when the two drift.
56 + *
57 + * @since 2.8.0
58 + * @var array<string, string>
59 + */
60 + public const TITLE_FORMAT_DEFAULTS = [
61 + 'homepage_title' => '%site_title% %sep% %site_description%',
62 + 'post_title' => '%post_title% %sep% %site_title%',
63 + 'page_title' => '%page_title% %sep% %site_title%',
64 + 'category_title' => '%category_title% %sep% %site_title%',
65 + 'tag_title' => '%tag_title% %sep% %site_title%',
66 + 'author_title' => '%author_name% %sep% %site_title%',
67 + 'search_title' => 'Search Results for "%search_term%" %sep% %site_title%',
68 + 'archive_title' => '%archive_title% %sep% %site_title%',
69 + ];
70 +
71 + /**
44 72 * WordPress filesystem instance
45 73 *
46 74 * @since 1.0.0
47 75 * @var \WP_Filesystem_Base|null
@@ -303,8 +331,91 @@
303 331 }
304 332 }
305 333
306 334 /**
335 + * Save settings, then refresh what a new canonical scheme invalidates.
336 + *
337 + * The static sitemap files are written with the scheme in force when they
338 + * were built, and nothing else rebuilds them until a post or term changes.
339 + * So a change of scheme left every `<loc>` on the old one while canonical
340 + * and og:url had already moved (#736). Every writer (the settings route,
341 + * the robots route, the MCP abilities, an import) lands here.
342 + *
343 + * @since 2.7.0
344 + *
345 + * @param string $context_type Context type.
346 + * @param int|null $context_id Context ID.
347 + * @param array $settings Settings to save.
348 + * @return bool
349 + */
350 + public function save_settings(string $context_type, ?int $context_id, array $settings): bool {
351 + if (!self::touches_canonical_scheme($context_type, $context_id, $settings)) {
352 + return parent::save_settings($context_type, $context_id, $settings);
353 + }
354 +
355 + $before = Url_Scheme::preference();
356 + $saved = parent::save_settings($context_type, $context_id, $settings);
357 +
358 + if ($saved) {
359 + $this->on_canonical_scheme_saved($before);
360 + }
361 +
362 + return $saved;
363 + }
364 +
365 + /**
366 + * Whether a save can change the site-wide canonical scheme.
367 + *
368 + * @since 2.7.0
369 + *
370 + * @param string $context_type Context type.
371 + * @param int|null $context_id Context ID.
372 + * @param array $settings Settings being saved.
373 + * @return bool
374 + */
375 + public static function touches_canonical_scheme(string $context_type, ?int $context_id, array $settings): bool {
376 + return 'site' === sanitize_key($context_type)
377 + && empty($context_id)
378 + && array_key_exists('canonical_scheme', $settings);
379 + }
380 +
381 + /**
382 + * Rebuild the static sitemaps when the effective scheme changed.
383 + *
384 + * Compares the effective preference, filter included, so a site whose
385 + * scheme is pinned by `thinkrank_canonical_scheme` does not rebuild on a
386 + * stored value that changes nothing it publishes.
387 + *
388 + * @since 2.7.0
389 + *
390 + * @param string $before Effective scheme before the save.
391 + * @return void
392 + */
393 + protected function on_canonical_scheme_saved(string $before): void {
394 + // The preference is cached for the request; the save just changed it.
395 + Url_Scheme::reset();
396 +
397 + if (Url_Scheme::preference() === $before) {
398 + return;
399 + }
400 +
401 + $this->schedule_sitemap_rebuild();
402 + }
403 +
404 + /**
405 + * Queue a settings-driven sitemap rebuild.
406 + *
407 + * Debounced and run after the response, like any other settings change
408 + * that alters what the sitemap publishes.
409 + *
410 + * @since 2.7.0
411 + * @return void
412 + */
413 + protected function schedule_sitemap_rebuild(): void {
414 + (new Sitemap_Generator(false))->schedule_regeneration();
415 + }
416 +
417 + /**
307 418 * Build the icon derivatives for a newly chosen favicon.
308 419 *
309 420 * Runs on save, which is the only moment the choice changes and the only
310 421 * place image work belongs — resolving a size on the front end must stay a
@@ -709,8 +820,17 @@
709 820 $body = ($custom !== '' && !$fully_blocked)
710 821 ? $this->strip_robots_header($custom)
711 822 : trim($this->generate_robots_txt()['content']);
712 823
824 + // The per-agent AI directives are machine-owned, so they are composed
825 + // here rather than stored: the textarea holds the user's body, with
826 + // the fenced block stripped out of every read and re-applied on every
827 + // render. A site-wide block already disallows everyone, so adding the
828 + // per-agent group there would be noise restating the same refusal.
829 + if (!$fully_blocked) {
830 + $body = $this->apply_ai_crawler_block($body, $settings);
831 + }
832 +
713 833 if ($body === '') {
714 834 return '';
715 835 }
716 836
@@ -786,9 +906,12 @@
786 906 $settings = $this->get_settings('site');
787 907
788 908 // Compare bodies, not raw strings: the auto-generated header carries a
789 909 // regeneration timestamp that always differs and means nothing here.
790 - $served = $this->strip_robots_header($effective['content']);
910 + // The AI crawler block is composed at render time on both sides, so it
911 + // is identical by construction and comparing it would only ever report
912 + // a false drift the admin cannot act on.
913 + $served = $this->strip_ai_crawler_block($this->strip_robots_header($effective['content']));
791 914
792 915 // Measure against the body the editor is displaying — get_served_robots_body()
793 916 // — not against render_robots_txt(). Two things made the old comparison
794 917 // report "in sync" while the screen showed rules no crawler receives:
@@ -1166,17 +1289,19 @@
1166 1289 $home_text = $settings['breadcrumb_home_text'] ?? 'Home';
1167 1290 if (empty($home_text)) {
1168 1291 $optimization['warnings'][] = 'Empty home text reduces accessibility for screen readers';
1169 1292 $optimization['score'] -= 15;
1170 - } elseif (strlen($home_text) > 20) {
1171 - $optimization['suggestions'][] = 'Keep home text concise (current: ' . strlen($home_text) . ' chars)';
1293 + } elseif (mb_strlen($home_text) > 20) {
1294 + // mb_strlen: this number is shown to the user as "chars" (#687).
1295 + $optimization['suggestions'][] = 'Keep home text concise (current: ' . mb_strlen($home_text) . ' chars)';
1172 1296 $optimization['score'] -= 5;
1173 1297 }
1174 1298
1175 1299 // Check prefix usage
1176 1300 $prefix = $settings['breadcrumb_prefix'] ?? '';
1177 - if (!empty($prefix) && strlen($prefix) > 50) {
1178 - $optimization['suggestions'][] = 'Breadcrumb prefix is quite long (' . strlen($prefix) . ' chars) - consider shortening';
1301 + if (!empty($prefix) && mb_strlen($prefix) > 50) {
1302 + // mb_strlen: this number is shown to the user as "chars" (#687).
1303 + $optimization['suggestions'][] = 'Breadcrumb prefix is quite long (' . mb_strlen($prefix) . ' chars) - consider shortening';
1179 1304 $optimization['score'] -= 5;
1180 1305 }
1181 1306
1182 1307 // Current page display
@@ -2747,8 +2872,47 @@
2747 2872 * @since 2.0.1
2748 2873 *
2749 2874 * @return string[]
2750 2875 */
2876 + /**
2877 + * The stored alternate name(s), shaped for schema output.
2878 + *
2879 + * schema.org and Google both allow `alternateName` to carry one value or
2880 + * several, and the store already round-trips either shape, so this accepts
2881 + * both and normalises: null when there is nothing to publish, a bare string
2882 + * for one name, a list for more. Emitting a one-element array would be
2883 + * valid but noisier than it needs to be.
2884 + *
2885 + * Shared because both WebSite producers need it and must agree — a property
2886 + * added to one and not the other is how #688 happened.
2887 + *
2888 + * @since 2.7.0
2889 + *
2890 + * @param mixed $value Stored alternate_name value.
2891 + * @return string|string[]|null
2892 + */
2893 + public static function alternate_name_for_schema($value) {
2894 + $names = [];
2895 +
2896 + foreach ((array) $value as $name) {
2897 + if (!is_scalar($name)) {
2898 + continue;
2899 + }
2900 +
2901 + $name = trim((string) $name);
2902 +
2903 + if ('' !== $name && !in_array($name, $names, true)) {
2904 + $names[] = $name;
2905 + }
2906 + }
2907 +
2908 + if (empty($names)) {
2909 + return null;
2910 + }
2911 +
2912 + return 1 === count($names) ? $names[0] : $names;
2913 + }
2914 +
2751 2915 protected function additional_setting_keys(): array {
2752 2916 return [
2753 2917 // Title formats, one per context.
2754 2918 'homepage_title', 'post_title', 'page_title', 'category_title',
@@ -2762,8 +2926,10 @@
2762 2926 // Schema toggles that live on this screen.
2763 2927 'organization_schema', 'knowledge_graph',
2764 2928 // Robots rules composed by the Robots.txt panel.
2765 2929 'custom_robots_rules',
2930 + // Per-agent AI crawler allow/block map (#657).
2931 + 'ai_crawler_rules',
2766 2932 // Hero section.
2767 2933 'hero_title', 'hero_subtitle', 'hero_cta_text', 'hero_cta_url',
2768 2934 'hero_background_image',
2769 2935 // Local SEO / business details.
@@ -2775,8 +2941,44 @@
2775 2941 ];
2776 2942 }
2777 2943
2778 2944 /**
2945 + * Sanitize settings, normalising the AI crawler rule map.
2946 + *
2947 + * The generic array sanitizer keeps the shape but says nothing about the
2948 + * values: a payload could store `ai_crawler_rules[gptbot] = "maybe"`, or a
2949 + * slug no crawler answers to, and both would round-trip through every
2950 + * later response. Normalising here rather than in the REST handler puts it
2951 + * on the one path every writer shares — the settings route, the robots
2952 + * route and the MCP abilities all land in save_settings() (#657).
2953 + *
2954 + * @since 2.5.0
2955 + *
2956 + * @param array $settings Settings to sanitize.
2957 + * @param string $context_type Context type.
2958 + * @return array Sanitized settings.
2959 + */
2960 + protected function sanitize_settings(array $settings, string $context_type = 'site'): array {
2961 + $sanitized = parent::sanitize_settings($settings, $context_type);
2962 +
2963 + if (array_key_exists('ai_crawler_rules', $sanitized)) {
2964 + $sanitized['ai_crawler_rules'] = AI_Crawlers::normalize_rules($sanitized['ai_crawler_rules']);
2965 + }
2966 +
2967 + // Same reasoning one key up, for the scheme override (#638). Anything
2968 + // that is not one of the three modes means "follow WordPress", and is
2969 + // stored as that rather than kept verbatim — otherwise get-site-identity
2970 + // -settings would report a scheme the site does not actually publish.
2971 + if (array_key_exists('canonical_scheme', $sanitized)) {
2972 + $sanitized['canonical_scheme'] = in_array($sanitized['canonical_scheme'], Url_Scheme::MODES, true)
2973 + ? $sanitized['canonical_scheme']
2974 + : Url_Scheme::AUTOMATIC;
2975 + }
2976 +
2977 + return $sanitized;
2978 + }
2979 +
2980 + /**
2779 2981 * Get default settings for a context type (implements interface)
2780 2982 *
2781 2983 * @since 1.0.0
2782 2984 *
@@ -2796,9 +2998,32 @@
2796 2998 'breadcrumb_home_text' => 'Home',
2797 2999 'breadcrumb_separator' => '>',
2798 3000 'robots_txt_enabled' => true,
2799 3001 'allow_search_engines' => true,
3002 + // Answer 404 when a content selector in the URL resolved to
3003 + // nothing (#634). On by default, unlike the other new settings
3004 + // here: it changes no URL a visitor or a correct crawler uses, only
3005 + // ones where WordPress resolved nothing and served the blog listing
3006 + // at 200 anyway.
3007 + 'query_protection' => true,
3008 +
3009 + // Feed controls (#635). All three off, so an upgrade changes
3010 + // nothing about what an existing site already sends its
3011 + // subscribers; a brand-new install is seeded with the signature and
3012 + // the noindex on, in Activator::seed_feed_defaults().
3013 + 'feed_excerpt_only' => false,
3014 + 'feed_source_link' => false,
3015 + 'feed_noindex' => false,
3016 +
3017 + // The scheme self-referential URLs go out with (#638). 'automatic'
3018 + // means substitute nothing and follow WordPress, which is what
3019 + // every site did before the setting existed.
3020 + 'canonical_scheme' => Url_Scheme::AUTOMATIC,
2800 3021 'robots_txt_content' => '',
3022 + // Empty map = every AI crawler allowed. Defaults must stay
3023 + // permissive so an upgrade never starts blocking a crawler a site
3024 + // was happily serving (#657).
3025 + 'ai_crawler_rules' => [],
2801 3026 'logo_url' => '',
2802 3027 'favicon_url' => '',
2803 3028 'apple_touch_icon_url' => ''
2804 3029 ];
@@ -3007,16 +3232,17 @@
3007 3232 // Remove extra whitespace
3008 3233 $title = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $title);
3009 3234 $title = trim($title);
3010 3235
3011 - // Ensure title is not too long (60 characters max for SEO)
3012 - if (strlen($title) > 60) {
3013 - // Try to truncate at word boundary
3014 - $title = wp_trim_words($title, 8, '...');
3015 - if (strlen($title) > 60) {
3016 - $title = substr($title, 0, 57) . '...';
3017 - }
3018 - }
3236 + // Ensure title is not too long (60 characters max for SEO).
3237 + // All three units here were wrong for non-Latin text: strlen() counts
3238 + // BYTES so the gate fired at 20 Thai characters, wp_trim_words() counts
3239 + // CHARACTERS on th/ja/zh_* so `8` cut the title to 8 of them, and
3240 + // substr() cuts bytes so it split a character mid-sequence (#687).
3241 + $title = \ThinkRank\Core\Seo_Text::trim_to_length(
3242 + $title,
3243 + \ThinkRank\Core\Seo_Text::TITLE_MAX_LENGTH
3244 + );
3019 3245
3020 3246 // Ensure title is not empty
3021 3247 if (empty($title)) {
3022 3248 $title = get_bloginfo('name');
@@ -3406,8 +3632,29 @@
3406 3632 * @since 1.0.0
3407 3633 * @return array Array of sitemap URLs
3408 3634 */
3409 3635 private function get_sitemap_urls_for_robots(): array {
3636 + // One wrapper over every return path below, including the #104 extras.
3637 + // The Sitemap: line is the only absolute URL of ours in robots.txt and
3638 + // the one a crawler follows to find everything else, so it has to carry
3639 + // the site's scheme preference (#638). Applied here rather than where
3640 + // the body is assembled, because that path also renders a robots.txt a
3641 + // site owner typed themselves, and their text is not ours to rewrite.
3642 + return array_map(
3643 + static function (string $url): string {
3644 + return Url_Scheme::apply($url);
3645 + },
3646 + $this->collect_sitemap_urls_for_robots()
3647 + );
3648 + }
3649 +
3650 + /**
3651 + * The sitemap URLs robots.txt advertises, before the scheme preference.
3652 + *
3653 + * @since 1.0.0
3654 + * @return array Array of sitemap URLs
3655 + */
3656 + private function collect_sitemap_urls_for_robots(): array {
3410 3657 try {
3411 3658 // Get sitemap settings
3412 3659 $sitemap_generator = new \ThinkRank\SEO\Sitemap_Generator();
3413 3660 $sitemap_settings = $sitemap_generator->get_settings('site');
@@ -3456,9 +3703,22 @@
3456 3703 // business sitemap and the sitemaps other plugins register both land
3457 3704 // here for the same reason, so they go through one list (#104).
3458 3705 $extra = [];
3459 3706
3460 - if (file_exists(ABSPATH . 'local-sitemap.xml')) {
3707 + // Not a file test. Under dynamic delivery the local sitemap is
3708 + // served from PHP and no file is ever written, so file_exists()
3709 + // silently dropped a sitemap the site really does publish (#752).
3710 + // On static sites the file is still what proves it, so both count.
3711 + $local_sitemap_published = file_exists(ABSPATH . 'local-sitemap.xml');
3712 +
3713 + if (!$local_sitemap_published && class_exists('ThinkRank\\SEO\\Sitemap_Generator')) {
3714 + $generator = new \ThinkRank\SEO\Sitemap_Generator(false);
3715 +
3716 + $local_sitemap_published = 'dynamic' === $generator->resolve_delivery_mode()
3717 + && $generator->publishes_local_sitemap();
3718 + }
3719 +
3720 + if ($local_sitemap_published) {
3461 3721 $extra[] = '/local-sitemap.xml';
3462 3722 }
3463 3723
3464 3724 foreach (\ThinkRank\SEO\Sitemap_Generator::additional_sitemaps() as $path) {
@@ -3654,8 +3914,116 @@
3654 3914 return $rules;
3655 3915 }
3656 3916
3657 3917 /**
3918 + * Opening fence of the machine-owned AI crawler region.
3919 + *
3920 + * @since 2.5.0
3921 + * @var string
3922 + */
3923 + public const AI_BLOCK_BEGIN = '# BEGIN ThinkRank AI crawlers';
3924 +
3925 + /**
3926 + * Closing fence of the machine-owned AI crawler region.
3927 + *
3928 + * @since 2.5.0
3929 + * @var string
3930 + */
3931 + public const AI_BLOCK_END = '# END ThinkRank AI crawlers';
3932 +
3933 + /**
3934 + * Render the fenced AI crawler region for the current settings.
3935 + *
3936 + * One `User-agent:` / `Disallow: /` record per blocked crawler. Allowed
3937 + * crawlers emit nothing at all: `Disallow:` with an empty value is the
3938 + * robots.txt way of saying "allow everything", but writing eighteen such
3939 + * records to say what silence already says would triple the file and
3940 + * invite the reading that an unlisted crawler is therefore refused.
3941 + *
3942 + * @since 2.5.0
3943 + *
3944 + * @param array $settings Site settings.
3945 + * @return string Fenced block, newline-terminated, or '' when nothing is blocked.
3946 + */
3947 + private function build_ai_crawler_block(array $settings): string {
3948 + $blocked = AI_Crawlers::blocked_slugs($settings['ai_crawler_rules'] ?? []);
3949 +
3950 + if (empty($blocked)) {
3951 + return '';
3952 + }
3953 +
3954 + $agents = AI_Crawlers::all();
3955 +
3956 + $lines = [
3957 + self::AI_BLOCK_BEGIN,
3958 + '# Managed by ThinkRank — edits between these lines are overwritten.',
3959 + ];
3960 +
3961 + foreach ($blocked as $slug) {
3962 + $lines[] = '';
3963 + $lines[] = 'User-agent: ' . $agents[$slug]['token'];
3964 + $lines[] = 'Disallow: /';
3965 + }
3966 +
3967 + $lines[] = self::AI_BLOCK_END;
3968 +
3969 + return implode("\n", $lines) . "\n";
3970 + }
3971 +
3972 + /**
3973 + * Remove the fenced AI crawler region from a robots.txt body.
3974 + *
3975 + * Tolerates a missing closing fence rather than leaving the rest of the
3976 + * file swallowed: a truncated write, or someone deleting the END line by
3977 + * hand, would otherwise make every subsequent read drop everything below
3978 + * the opening fence.
3979 + *
3980 + * @since 2.5.0
3981 + *
3982 + * @param string $body Robots.txt body.
3983 + * @return string Body with the region removed.
3984 + */
3985 + public function strip_ai_crawler_block(string $body): string {
3986 + if (false === strpos($body, self::AI_BLOCK_BEGIN)) {
3987 + return $body;
3988 + }
3989 +
3990 + $pattern = '/\R*' . preg_quote(self::AI_BLOCK_BEGIN, '/')
3991 + . '.*?(?:' . preg_quote(self::AI_BLOCK_END, '/') . '|\z)\R*/s';
3992 +
3993 + return trim((string) preg_replace($pattern, "\n\n", $body, 1));
3994 + }
3995 +
3996 + /**
3997 + * Put the current AI crawler region into a robots.txt body.
3998 + *
3999 + * Replaces an existing region in place so the block keeps its position in
4000 + * a hand-ordered file, and appends when there is none. Everything outside
4001 + * the fences is returned untouched — that is the whole point of fencing
4002 + * it, since the body is also a free-text field the user edits.
4003 + *
4004 + * @since 2.5.0
4005 + *
4006 + * @param string $body Robots.txt body (fences optional).
4007 + * @param array $settings Site settings.
4008 + * @return string Body carrying the current region.
4009 + */
4010 + private function apply_ai_crawler_block(string $body, array $settings): string {
4011 + $stripped = $this->strip_ai_crawler_block($body);
4012 + $block = $this->build_ai_crawler_block($settings);
4013 +
4014 + if ('' === $block) {
4015 + return $stripped;
4016 + }
4017 +
4018 + if ('' === trim($stripped)) {
4019 + return trim($block);
4020 + }
4021 +
4022 + return rtrim($stripped) . "\n\n" . trim($block);
4023 + }
4024 +
4025 + /**
3658 4026 * The auto-generated header prepended to the served robots.txt.
3659 4027 *
3660 4028 * Kept separate from the body so it is only ever added at render time with
3661 4029 * a fresh timestamp, never stored or shown in the editable textarea.
@@ -3692,11 +4060,16 @@
3692 4060 */
3693 4061 public function get_served_robots_body(): string {
3694 4062 $settings = $this->get_settings('site');
3695 4063
4064 + // The AI block is stripped from every one of these paths. A physical
4065 + // robots.txt we wrote carries it, and the stored override is whatever
4066 + // the textarea last held — so without this the block round-trips into
4067 + // the editor, gets saved as ordinary body text, and is then appended
4068 + // to a second time on the next render.
3696 4069 $custom = trim((string) ($settings['robots_txt_content'] ?? ''));
3697 4070 if ($custom !== '') {
3698 - return $this->strip_robots_header($custom);
4071 + return $this->strip_ai_crawler_block($this->strip_robots_header($custom));
3699 4072 }
3700 4073
3701 4074 $robots_file = ABSPATH . 'robots.txt';
3702 4075 if (file_exists($robots_file)) {
@@ -3702,13 +4075,13 @@
3702 4075 if (file_exists($robots_file)) {
3703 4076 // phpcs:ignore WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_get_contents_file_get_contents, WordPress.PHP.NoSilencedErrors.Discouraged -- an unreadable robots.txt is an expected state answered with an empty string.
3704 4077 $raw = (string) @file_get_contents($robots_file);
3705 4078 if ($raw !== '') {
3706 - return $this->strip_robots_header($raw);
4079 + return $this->strip_ai_crawler_block($this->strip_robots_header($raw));
3707 4080 }
3708 4081 }
3709 4082
3710 - return trim($this->generate_robots_txt()['content']);
4083 + return $this->strip_ai_crawler_block(trim($this->generate_robots_txt()['content']));
3711 4084 }
3712 4085 private function get_site_identity_data(array $settings): array {
3713 4086 return [
3714 4087 'site_name' => $settings['site_name'] ?? get_bloginfo('name'),
@@ -3770,11 +4143,14 @@
3770 4143 $optimization['validation']['valid'] = false;
3771 4144 }
3772 4145
3773 4146 if (!empty($value) && isset($config['max_length'])) {
3774 - if (strlen($value) > $config['max_length']) {
4147 + // The warning says "characters", so measure and cut in characters:
4148 + // strlen()/substr() fired early on non-Latin values and the
4149 + // suggested replacement was cut mid-character (#687).
4150 + if (mb_strlen($value) > $config['max_length']) {
3775 4151 $optimization['validation']['warnings'][] = "{$element} exceeds maximum length of {$config['max_length']} characters";
3776 - $optimization['optimized_value'] = substr($value, 0, $config['max_length']);
4152 + $optimization['optimized_value'] = \ThinkRank\Core\Seo_Text::trim_to_length($value, (int) $config['max_length']);
3777 4153 }
3778 4154 }
3779 4155
3780 4156 // SEO-specific optimizations