StoreHelper Kit – Toolkit

StoreHelper Kit is the most comprehensive maintenance and optimization suite designed specifically for WooCommerce store owners and developers. Stop juggling dozens of single-purpose plugins—StoreHelper Kit brings all the essential tools you need into one beautiful, unified dashboard.

Whether you are managing a small boutique or a massive catalog with thousands of products, StoreHelper Kit saves you hours of manual work every week. From AI-powered SEO generation to bulk price updates and database cleanup, we’ve got you covered.

🚀 Key Features

• Unified Dashboard: Access all tools from a single, modern, and responsive interface.
• AI-Powered Automation: Leverage OpenAI to generate SEO-optimized ALT texts, product descriptions (coming soon), and tags.
• Bulk Operations: Update prices, delete products, and clean up unused media in seconds.
• Smart Filtering: Quickly find the tools you need with our categorized and searchable navigation.

🛠️ Available Tools

🧠 AI & SEO Tools

• Image Alt Text Generator (AI)
  • Automatically generate descriptive, SEO-friendly ALT text for your product images.
  • Uses OpenAI Vision API to analyze the actual image content.
  • Considers your product context (Focus Keywords, Meta Descriptions) for maximum SEO impact.
  • New in 3.0: Real-time progress tracking and improved error handling.

📦 Product Management

• Bulk Price Updater

  • Run flash sales or global price adjustments with ease.
  • Filter by Category, Attribute, or Price Range.
  • Increase or decrease prices by fixed amounts or percentages.
  • Supports Variable Products and scheduled price changes.

• Bulk Product Delete

  • Clean up your catalog by mass-deleting products.
  • Filter by Category, Stock Status (e.g., Out of Stock), or Price.
  • Option: Automatically delete associated images to free up server space.

• Auto Cross-Sells

  • Boost your Average Order Value (AOV) automatically.
  • Generates Cross-sell and Up-sell links between products in the same category.
  • Randomized linking ensures diverse product exposure.

🎨 Design & Navigation

• Structured Menu Builder

  • Turn your WooCommerce Category tree into a WordPress Menu in one click.
  • Preserves parent-child hierarchy perfectly.
  • Ideal for stores with hundreds of categories where manual menu creation is impossible.

• Filter Builder

  • Create AJAX-powered attribute filters for your shop sidebar.
  • Select top attributes (Color, Size, Brand) and customize their labels.
  • Improves customer navigation and conversion rates.

• Brand Image Finder

  • Automatically fetch brand logos using SeekLogo and Clearbit APIs.
  • Assigns logos to your product attribute terms (e.g., “Nike”, “Adidas”).
  • Keeps your brand filters looking professional.

🧹 Cleanup & Maintenance

• Unused Media Cleaner

  • Scan your Media Library for “orphan” images not attached to any post or product.
  • Safely delete unused files to reduce backup size and improve site speed.

• Category Level Deleter

  • Prune your category tree by deleting specific levels (e.g., “Delete all 3rd-level subcategories”).
  • Perfect for restructuring imported catalogs.

🔜 Coming Soon (Roadmap)

We are constantly adding new tools. Here is what’s coming next:

• AI Image to Description: Generate full product descriptions from images.
• AI SEO Tags Generator: Auto-create Meta Titles and Descriptions.
• Abandoned Cart Lite: Recover lost sales with email reminders.
• Duplicate Finder: Merge duplicate products to fix catalog issues.
• Order Cleaner: Bulk delete old or cancelled orders.
• Watermark Applier: Protect your product images in bulk.

External Services

This plugin integrates with the following third-party services. All requests occur only when you initiate logo retrieval or image updates:

1. SeekLogo API

   • Purpose: Automated logo search and retrieval.
   • Data sent: Brand name or taxonomy term.
   • When: On-demand, when fetching or auto-updating brand images.
   • Terms of Service: https://seeklogo.com/terms-of-service
   • Privacy Policy: https://seeklogo.com/privacy-policy

2. Clearbit Logo API (optional)

   • Purpose: Fallback logo lookup using Clearbit’s Logo service.
   • Data sent: Brand domain or name.
   • When: Only if SeekLogo returns no results and the option is enabled in settings.
   • Terms of Service: https://clearbit.com/legal/terms
   • Privacy Policy: https://clearbit.com/legal/privacy

3. WordPress.org Plugin API

   • Purpose: Retrieve plugin icons and metadata if linked to a WordPress.org project.
   • Data sent: Plugin slug.
   • When: When displaying plugin-related images in the admin interface.
   • Terms & Privacy: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/plugin-assets-api/

4. OpenAI API

   • Purpose: AI‑powered generation of image ALT text (vision + text).
   • Data sent: Image URL and a short textual prompt with page/post context (e.g., focus keyword, meta description). Your API key is used to authorize the request.
   • When: Only when you explicitly trigger ALT generation for selected images.
   • Terms of Use: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use
   • Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy

1. Upload the storehelper-kit folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Go to WooCommerce > StoreHelper Kit to access the dashboard.
4. (Optional) Enter your OpenAI API Key in the Settings tab to enable AI features.

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   Dashboard Overview - A beautiful, unified interface for all your tools.

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   AI Alt Text Generator - Generate SEO-optimized ALT tags in bulk.

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   Bulk Price Updater - Run sales and update prices globally.

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   Menu Builder - Create complex category menus in seconds.

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   Settings Panel - Configure API keys and global options.

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3.0

(25.11.2025)
* Major Update: Redesigned Admin UI with a modern, card-based dashboard.
* New: Added “Support” and “Settings” quick access buttons.
* New: Smart API Key detection – see instantly which AI tools are ready to use.
* New: Dashboard Filters – toggle between All, AI, and Setup Required tools.
* Improved: Enhanced attribute-stats.php stability and JSON response handling.
* Improved: Better error handling for AI generation tasks.
* Added: Detailed documentation and tool descriptions.

2.6

(07.08.2025)
* Improved: ALT Text Generator now runs sequential per-image requests via AJAX to avoid timeouts/HTTP2 protocol issues and provide a smoother experience.
* Added: Real-time progress modal with success/error counters and a live log of operations.
* Added: Robust error logging to wp-content/uploads/storehelper-logs/alt_text_generator.log with fallback to wp-content/alt_text_generator.log.
* Improved: Clean JSON responses and stricter nonce validation to prevent mixed admin HTML in responses and to surface clear error messages.
* Improved: Keyword handling — when no focus keyword is available, ALT is generated from image and page context without failing.
* UI: Refined filters layout, compact modal, textarea for ALT, sticky actions bar, and a per-page selector with working pagination.
* Fix: Eliminated sporadic 400 Bad Request cases by routing same-page POSTs and cleaning output buffers before returning JSON.

2.5

(03.08.2025)
* New: AI Alt Text Generator for images — analyzes page content and the image itself to produce natural, keyword‑aware ALT attributes.
* New: Structured Menu Builder — instantly builds a full navigation tree from all WooCommerce categories, preserving hierarchy; scales to 100s and 1,000s of categories.
* Integration: OpenAI for ALT generation (requires your API key).

2.3

• Enforced mandatory nonce validation for dashboard tool selection to prevent CSRF.
• Added ‘nonceDashboard’ field to the localized script in storehelper_kit_admin_assets() for secure AJAX requests.
• Removed legacy nonce check block and ensured early termination on missing or invalid nonce in storehelper_kit_admin_dashboard().

2.2

• Added deep sanitization of the attributes array in the attribute statistics tool using sanitize_text_field( wp_unslash( ... ) ).
• Corrected use of the variable for limiting displayed attributes instead of insecure direct reading from.
• Added a nonce check (storehelper_kit_dashboard_nonce) in storehelper_kit_admin_dashboard() to prevent CSRF.

2.1

• Replaced external placeholder URL with local logo-placeholder.jpg.
• Documented SeekLogo and Clearbit services with separate Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links.
• Added ABSPATH guard to prevent direct file access in plugin PHP files.
• Implemented nonce and current_user_can() checks for all AJAX handlers and form submissions.
• Sanitized, validated, and escaped all incoming and outgoing data.
• Replaced unsafe SQL calls with get_posts() (WP_Query) for secure database interactions.
• Renamed generic option names to unique prefixes (e.g., storehelperkit_widget_...).

2.0

• Major overhaul: refactored all tools for better performance and security.
• Added support for PHP 8.1+ and modern WordPress APIs.
• Improved i18n compliance and sanitized all inputs/outputs.
• Updated readme, documentation, and screenshots.

1.9

• Fixed price update batching bug.
• Added nonce verification to all AJAX actions.
• Enhanced filters in attribute statistics tool.

1.8

• Initial public release.