# IGNY8 Launch Tasks - Complete Implementation Guide

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# PHASE 0 ✅ Completed

## 1. Design System Consolidation 

✅ Update the rules files, to follow the rules in all changes for styles, for components, for coding rules, to use consistent design

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## 2. Visual Verifications

2.1 ✅ - All logos and images to update for dark and light color scheme layout, and logo design final as well as favicon, and move images to right folder
2.2 ✅ - Sidebar menu rearrange for items that need rearranging, and reduce padding/spacing
2.3 ✅ - Fix the sidebar active/selected menu and hover color
2.4 ✅ - Assign manually the colors to each module, and verify and fix that in each page and progress bar consistent colors are used, across module pages, automation and dashboard
2.5 ✅ - Use colors in setup, sites and account and all its subpages

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## 3. AI Provider Configuration

3.1 ✅ - Add Bria image generation and verify that DALL-E and Bria image generation are working
3.2 ✅ - Add and verify Claude API and models
3.3 ✅ - Update the 2 image sizes to be landscape and 2 square, and update the template to use full width image on full section, and half width content section

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# PRE-LAUNCH PHASE 1: Code Cleanup & Technical Debt ✅

> **Goal:** Clean, maintainable codebase before production lock  
> **Status:** Completed January 9, 2026  
> **Commits:** 4 commits, -3,218 lines removed, 24 files changed

## 1.1 - Legacy Code Cleanup ✅

### 1.1.1 - Identify Legacy Items ✅
**Action:** Audit and document all unused code

- [x] Unused pages in `frontend/src/pages/` - Removed 11 empty folders
- [x] Unused routes in `App.tsx` - Cleaned up
- [x] Unused components in `frontend/src/components/` - Removed empty folders
- [x] Unused API endpoints in backend - N/A (all in use)
- [x] Deprecated documentation references - Updated

### 1.1.2 - Remove Legacy Code ✅
- [x] Remove identified unused pages - Removed test files, empty folders
- [x] Remove orphaned routes - Cleaned up
- [x] Remove unused components - Removed 11 empty folders
- [x] Remove deprecated API endpoints - N/A
- [x] Update documentation to reflect removals - Updated

### 1.1.3 - Code Quality Verification ✅
- [x] Run ESLint with design system rules - Passed
- [x] Fix any design system violations - None found
- [x] Verify TypeScript strict mode compliance - Passed
- [x] Check for console.log/debug statements - Removed 17 instances

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# PRE-LAUNCH PHASE 4: Email & Notifications QA ✅

> **Goal:** Reliable email delivery and notification system  
> **Status:** Completed January 9, 2026

## 4.1 - Email Deliverability Testing ✅

### 4.1.1 - Spam Score Testing
- [x] Test Resend emails with mail-tester.com
- [x] Document spam score results
- [x] Address any deliverability issues

### 4.1.2 - Email Trigger Verification

| Trigger | Email Type | Service | Tested |
|---------|------------|---------|--------|
| User Registration | Welcome email | Resend | ✅ |
| Email Verification | Verification link | Resend | ✅ |
| Password Reset | Reset link | Resend | ✅ |
| Password Changed | Confirmation | Resend | ✅ |
| Plan Upgrade | Confirmation | Resend | ✅ |
| Payment Success | Receipt | Resend | ✅ |
| Payment Failed | Alert | Resend | ✅ |
| Automation Complete | Notification | Resend | ✅ |
| Content Ready | Notification | Resend | ✅ |

### 4.1.3 - Acceptable Deliverability Standards
- Target: 95%+ inbox placement ✅
- Bounce rate: <5% ✅
- Spam complaint rate: <0.1% ✅

## 4.2 - In-App Notifications ✅
- [x] Verify notification bell updates in real-time
- [x] Test notification read/unread states
- [x] Verify notification dropdown functionality
- [x] Check notifications page `/account/notifications`

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# PRE-LAUNCH PHASE 5: UX Improvements ✅

> **Goal:** Polished user experience for production  
> **Status:** Completed January 9, 2026  
> **Focus:** Enhanced search modal with filters, suggestions, and help integration

## 5.1 - Search Modal Enhancement ✅

**Current:** Enhanced with comprehensive features  
**Completed:** Full search experience with help integration

### Improvements: ✅
- [x] Add search filters (by type: keyword, content, site, etc.) - Implemented with category badges
- [x] Add recent searches history - Implemented (stored in localStorage)
- [x] Improve search results display with context - Added context snippets with highlighting
- [x] Add keyboard shortcuts (Cmd/Ctrl + K) - Already implemented
- [x] Quick actions from search results - Implemented with suggested questions
- [x] **Bonus:** Added help knowledge base with 25+ questions across 8 topics
- [x] **Bonus:** Added smart phrase matching (strips filler words, handles plurals)
- [x] **Bonus:** Added comprehensive keyword coverage (task, cluster, billing, invoice, etc.)

## 5.2 - Image Regeneration Feature ⏸️

> **Status:** Deferred to post-launch (Phase 9)  
> **Reason:** Current image generation is stable; regeneration is enhancement not critical for launch

## 5.3 - User Flow Polish ✅

> **Status:** Verified working - Ready for Phase 7 user testing

### Signup to First Content Flow ✅
1. [x] User signs up → verify smooth flow - Working
2. [x] Onboarding wizard → verify all steps work - Functional
3. [x] Add site → verify WordPress integration - Stable
4. [x] Add keywords → verify import works - Working
5. [x] Run clustering → verify AI works - Functional
6. [ ] Generate content → verify output quality - (Pending Phase 7 testing)
7. [ ] Publish to WordPress → verify integration - (Pending Phase 7 testing)

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# PRE-LAUNCH PHASE 6: Data Backup & Cleanup ✅

> **Goal:** Fresh database for production launch  
> **Status:** Completed January 9, 2026  
> **Deliverables:** Django management commands + comprehensive documentation

## 6.1 - System Configuration Backup ✅

### 6.1.1 - Export System Data
**Keep these (system configuration):**

| Model Group | Export Format | Location |
|-------------|---------------|----------|
| Plans | JSON | `/backups/config/plans.json` |
| AIModelConfig | JSON | `/backups/config/ai_models.json` |
| CreditCostConfig | JSON | `/backups/config/credit_costs.json` |
| GlobalIntegrationSettings | JSON | `/backups/config/integrations.json` |
| SystemSettings | JSON | `/backups/config/system.json` |
| Prompts | JSON | `/backups/config/prompts.json` |
| AuthorProfiles | JSON | `/backups/config/authors.json` |
| Industries & Sectors | JSON | `/backups/config/industries.json` |
| SeedKeywords | JSON | `/backups/config/seed_keywords.json` |

### 6.1.2 - Document Configuration Values ✅
- [x] Export all Plan configurations - Command: `export_system_config`
- [x] Export all AI model settings - Included in export
- [x] Export all prompt templates - Included in export
- [x] Export all system settings - Included in export
- [x] Store in version control - Ready to commit before V1.0

**Implementation:** `/backend/igny8_core/management/commands/export_system_config.py`  
**Usage:** `python manage.py export_system_config --output=/backups/v1-config.json`

## 6.2 - User Data Cleanup ✅

### 6.2.1 - Clear User-Generated Data ✅
**Remove ALL user-specific data:**

- [x] All Sites (except internal test sites) - Command ready
- [x] All Keywords - Command ready
- [x] All Clusters - Command ready
- [x] All Content Ideas - Command ready
- [x] All Tasks - Command ready
- [x] All Content - Command ready
- [x] All Images - Command ready
- [x] All Automation Runs - Command ready
- [x] All Publishing Records - Command ready
- [x] All Sync Events - Command ready
- [x] All Credit Transactions (except system) - Command ready
- [x] All Credit Usage Logs - Command ready
- [x] All Notifications - Command ready

**Implementation:** `/backend/igny8_core/management/commands/cleanup_user_data.py`  
**Usage:** `python manage.py cleanup_user_data --confirm`  
**Safety:** Includes dry-run mode, confirmation prompts, atomic transactions

### 6.2.2 - Clear Logs ✅
- [x] Application logs - Manual cleanup script provided
- [x] Celery task logs - Manual cleanup script provided
- [x] Automation logs - Covered by cleanup command
- [x] Publishing sync logs - Covered by cleanup command
- [x] Error logs - Manual cleanup documented

### 6.2.3 - Clear Media Storage ✅
- [x] Remove all generated images - Included in cleanup command
- [x] Clear CDN cache if applicable - Documented
- [x] Verify storage is empty - Verification steps included

**Documentation:** `/docs/plans/PHASE-6-BACKUP-CLEANUP-GUIDE.md` (300+ lines)

## 6.3 - V1.0 Configuration Lock ⏳

> **Status:** Ready to execute before V1.0 deployment  
> **Note:** Commands and documentation prepared, will run during Phase 8 deployment

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# PHASE 1: App UI Quick Fixes

## 1.1 - Credits Display Fix ✅

**Location**: App header component

**Current**: Shows abbreviated format (e.g., "12k")

**Required**: Show full number (e.g., "12,000")

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## 1.2 - Sites Card Redesign ✅

**Location**: Sites listing/grid component

**Changes required**:
- Reduce padding to half of current value
- Use smaller badges for all 3 badges
- Move URL to below the site title (currently beside or above)
- Show description only when not empty (hide element completely if empty)

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## 1.3 - Page Loading Standardization ✅

**Current problem**: Each page has its own loading spinner/text implementation

**Required solution**:
- Remove all individual page loading implementations
- Implement loading state in global app wrapper (same component where sidebar/header resides)
- Single consistent spinner/text across entire app
- Same approach as standard page margins/padding (defined once globally)

**Location**: App layout wrapper component (where sidebar/header are defined)

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## 1.4 - Global Layout Spacing ✅

**Required**:
- Define exact padding in global app layout ONLY:
  - Below header: 12px
  - After sidebar: 12px
  - Top/bottom: 12px
  - Left/right: 12px
- Remove ALL inner margins and padding from internal page main wrappers
- Every page should inherit spacing from global layout, not define its own

**Location**: Global app layout component

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## 1.5 - Button Standardization ✅

**Current problems**:
1. Icon-on-top bug: Some buttons render icon above text instead of inline
2. Inconsistent `type` attribute: Some buttons have `type="button"`, some don't
3. No unified component usage across app

**Required solution**:

Create/enforce global button components for each variant:

| Variant | Component | Usage |
|---------|-----------|-------|
| Standard button | `<Button>` | Default actions |
| Button with icon | `<Button icon={...}>` | Actions with icon left/right of text |
| Icon-only button | `<IconButton>` | Toolbar actions, compact UI |
| Button group | `<ButtonGroup>` | Related actions grouped together |
| Toggle button | `<ToggleButton>` | On/off states |

**Implementation requirements**:
- All variants should NOT require `type="button"` in the HTML output (handle internally in component)
- Icon must render INLINE with text (flex row), never on top (flex column)
- Single source of truth for each button type
- Audit entire codebase and replace all ad-hoc button implementations

**Audit command**:
```bash
grep -rn "<button" src/ --include="*.jsx" --include="*.tsx"
```

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## 1.6 - Legacy Cleanup ❌

**Action**: Remove all unused pages, routes, and related data from:
- System codebase
- Documentation

**Note**: Identify specific legacy items before removal

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# PHASE 2: App Features & Improvements

## 2.1 - Setup Wizard Redesign ✅

**Current problems**:
- Converted from modal - not a good design
- Unnecessary header and icon on wizard main page
- Unclear intro cards

**Required changes**:
1. Convert to proper page style (like other app pages)
2. Remove unnecessary header from wizard main page
3. Create cleaner, better intro cards that clearly explain:
   - What is being provided through wizard
   - What each step accomplishes
   - What user will have after completion

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## 2.2 - Dashboard Widgets (3 new) ✅

**Location**: Home/Dashboard page

### Widget 1: Sites Overview ✅
- Show sites with small data/status info
- Include action buttons to directly navigate to:
  - Site settings
  - Site actions
- Compact format showing key site health indicators

### Widget 2: Credits Usage ✅
- Remaining credits display
- AI runs count
- Style: Match existing site dashboard widget style
- Visual progress indicator for usage

### Widget 3: Account Info ✅
Display the following account-related information:
- Credits consumed (this billing period)
- Credits remaining
- Reset day (when credits refresh)
- Last payment date
- Next payment due date
- Current plan/package type

**Note**: Evaluate and track what account-related info is most valuable to display

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## 2.3 - WordPress & Content Templates ❌

### 2.3.1 - Post Template Optimization
- Review and optimize WordPress post template structure
- Improve SEO elements
- Ensure clean HTML output

### 2.3.2 - Header Section Cleanup
**Current**: Shows various tags including non-public/non-SEO-friendly ones

**Required**:
- Show ONLY publicly visible, SEO-friendly tags
- Show ONLY tags that are working/functional
- Remove all other tags from header section

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# PHASE 3: Credits, Pricing & Payments

## 3.1 - Credits Structure ✅

### 3.1.1 - Token Costing ✅
- Finalize credits token costing
- Define limits per plan
- Document per-plan structure

### 3.1.2 - Pricing Display ✅
- Finalize what to show in pricing plans on frontend
- Finalize what to show in pricing plans in-app
- Ensure consistency between both

### 3.1.3 - Subscription Verification ✅
- Verify correct renewal date logic
- Verify correct reset of credits date
- Test edge cases (upgrades, downgrades, mid-cycle changes)

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## 3.2 - Payment Integration ✅

### 3.2.1 - Stripe Integration ✅
- Full payment flow integration
- Subscription management
- Webhook handling

### 3.2.2 - PayPal Integration ✅
- Full payment flow integration
- Subscription management
- Webhook handling

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## 3.3 - Plans & Packages ✅

### 3.3.1 - Upgrade Flow ✅
- Credits package upgrade flow
- Plan upgrade flow
- Proration handling

### 3.3.2 - Service Packages ✅
Create two package types:

| Package | Type | Includes |
|---------|------|----------|
| Setup App | One-time | Initial configuration, onboarding |
| Campaign Management | Monthly | Keyword selection, ongoing management |

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# PHASE 4: Email Setup ✅

## 4.1 - Email Services ✅

| Use Case | Service | Free Limit | Why |
|----------|---------|------------|-----|
| **Transactional** | **Resend** | 3,000/mo | Better deliverability, faster delivery, cleaner API |
| **Marketing** | **Brevo** | 9,000/mo | Higher volume, built-in templates, unsubscribe management, analytics |

**Total free capacity**: 12,000 emails/month

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## 4.2 - Email Implementation ✅

### 4.2.1 - Service Configuration ✅
- Configure Resend for transactional emails
- Configure Brevo for marketing emails
- Set up API keys and authentication

### 4.2.2 - App Integration ✅
- Integrate both providers into app backend
- Create email service abstraction layer
- Route emails to correct provider based on type

### 4.2.3 - Email Triggers Definition ✅
Define and configure when emails are triggered:

| Email Type | Trigger | Service |
|------------|---------|---------|
| Signup confirmation | User registration | Resend |
| Password reset | User request | Resend |
| Alert notifications | System events | Resend |
| Newsletters | Scheduled/manual | Brevo |
| Marketing campaigns | Scheduled/manual | Brevo |

**Action**: Audit backend/frontend to ensure all triggers are configured

### 4.2.4 - Mail History Log ✅
**Requirements**:
- Store small mail details (not full content)
- Archive every 30 days
- Compact format to minimize database clutter
- Must remain accessible for later reference

**Suggested schema**:
```
- id
- email_type (transactional/marketing)
- recipient_email (hashed or partial)
- subject_summary
- status (sent/failed/bounced)
- sent_at
- archived_at
```

### 4.2.5 - Verification ✅
- Verify all signup emails sending successfully
- Verify all alert emails sending successfully
- Verify all notification emails sending successfully
- Create test suite for email delivery

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# PHASE 5: Pipeline & Testing

## 5.1 - Pipeline Verification

- Run complete manual pipeline end-to-end
- Run complete automated pipeline end-to-end
- Document and fix any issues found

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## 5.2 - QA & Testing

### 5.2.1 - CRUD Operations
- Collect current CRUD implementation from codebase
- Visually verify each operation
- Functionally verify each operation manually
- Document any issues

### 5.2.2 - Automation Pipeline
- Full end-to-end test
- From clustering to publishing
- Verify each stage completes correctly

### 5.2.3 - Credits Accuracy
- Verify accurate credits consumption
- Verify accurate cost calculations
- Test edge cases (zero credits, negative, overflow)

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# PHASE 6: Data Cleanup & Deployment

## 6.1 - Data Cleanup

Clear ALL IGNY8 data:
- Sites
- Images
- Content
- All database tables
- All logs

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## 6.2 - V1.0 Configuration Lock

- Final configuration lock for V1.0 release
- Document all configuration values
- No changes after lock without version bump

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## 6.3 - User Testing

### New User Signup Test
- Signup 3 new users on Starter plan - verify
- Signup 3 new users on Growth plan - verify
- Signup 3 new users on Scale plan - verify

### Personal Deployment
- Use own account to deploy personal sites

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## 6.4 - Site Deployments

Deploy and verify the following sites:
- [ ] homeg8.com
- [ ] massagersmart.com
- [ ] Alorig.com
- [ ] SalmanSadiq.com
- [ ] AIAI.pk

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# PHASE 7: Documentation & Media

## 7.1 - Documentation Updates ✅

- ✅ Update all feature documentation
- ✅ Finalize help documentation
- ✅ Ensure accuracy with V1.0 release features

**Completed Items**:
- Updated docs/INDEX.md to v1.6.1
- Updated CHANGELOG.md with v1.6.1 release details
- Updated Help.tsx with 8-stage pipeline, visual flowcharts, accurate module docs
- All documentation synced with current codebase

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## 7.2 - Media Creation ❌

### 7.2.1 - Feature Screencasts ❌
- Create screencast of healthy data from each page
- Show real/representative data, not empty states

### 7.2.2 - Feature Explainer Videos ❌
- Create videos explaining each feature
- Focus on value proposition and use cases

### 7.2.3 - Tutorial Videos ❌
- Create functional screencasts
- How-to video tutorials for common workflows

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# PHASE 8: Frontend Marketing Site

> ⚠️ **DEPENDENCY**: This phase can ONLY be finalized after Phase 7 documentation is complete

## 8.1 - Site Content ✅

- ✅ Complete site content based on:
  - Final documentation
  - Final feature set
  - Help documentation
- ✅ Ensure messaging matches actual V1.0 capabilities

**Completed Items**:
- Updated Home.tsx with 8-stage pipeline and 7 automation handoffs
- Updated Product.tsx with accurate module descriptions and features
- Updated Tour.tsx with 5 detailed steps and accurate pipeline
- Updated Solutions.tsx with current architecture details
- All marketing pages synced with app architecture

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## 8.2 - Pricing Page ✅

Simple pricing page with three plans:

| Plan | Price |
|------|-------|
| Starter | $99/mo |
| Growth | $199/mo |
| Scale | $299/mo |

- ✅ Include credits information for each plan
- ✅ Clear feature comparison

**Completed Items**:
- Updated Pricing.tsx feature matrix with accurate AI providers
- Added image generation details (5 credits basic, 25 credits premium)
- Updated with DALL-E 3, Runware, Bria providers

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## 8.3 - Upcoming Features Section ✅

**Location**: Frontend marketing site ONLY (not in-app)

- ✅ Created dedicated `/upcoming` page with timeline-based feature groups
- ✅ Organized features into 3 phases: Feb 2026, Q2 2026, Q3-Q4 2026
- ✅ Added to footer navigation under "Resources"

**Completed Features Documented**:

**Phase 1 - Launching February 2026**:
- Linker Module (internal/external linking with clustering)
- Optimizer Module (content re-optimization engine)

**Phase 2 - Launching Q2 2026**:
- Products Pages (e-commerce product content generation)
- Services Pages (service business content engine)
- Company Pages (corporate website essentials)

**Phase 3 - Launching Q3-Q4 2026**:
- Socializer Module (multi-platform social publishing)
- Video Content Creator (AI video generation & publishing)
- Site Builder (the SEO holy grail)
- Advanced Analytics (performance insights & reporting)

**Visual Design**:
- Unique color badges for each timeline phase
- Rich visual layout with gradients and hover effects
- Feature cards with icons, descriptions, and detailed bullet points
- Consistent with existing marketing site design system

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# Execution Summary

| Phase | Scope | Difficulty | Dependencies |
|-------|-------|------------|--------------|
| 1 | App UI quick fixes | Easy | None |
| 2 | App features | Medium | Phase 1 |
| 3 | Credits/Payments | Medium | None |
| 4 | Email setup | Medium | None |
| 5 | Pipeline/Testing | Medium | Phases 1-4 |
| 6 | Cleanup/Deploy | Medium | Phase 5 |
| 7 | Documentation | Medium | Phase 6 |
| 8 | Frontend site | Easy-Medium | **Phase 7 (hard dependency)** |

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# Parallel Execution

**Can run simultaneously**:
- Phase 1 + Phase 3 + Phase 4 (all independent)
- Phase 2 (after Phase 1) + Phase 3 + Phase 4

**Must be sequential**:
- Phase 5 → Phase 6 → Phase 7 → Phase 8

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# PRE-LAUNCH PHASE 2: Content & Template Optimization ✅

> **Goal:** Production-ready content generation and publishing  
> **Status:** Completed January 11, 2026  

## 2.1 - WordPress Post Template ✅

### 2.1.1 - Template Structure Review ✅
**Location:** Backend content generation + WordPress publishing

- [x] Review HTML output structure
- [x] Validate semantic HTML (proper H1-H6 hierarchy)
- [x] Verify responsive image handling
- [x] Check internal link formatting

### 2.1.2 - SEO Elements Optimization ✅
- [x] Meta title generation quality
- [x] Meta description generation quality
- [x] Open Graph tags implementation
- [x] Schema.org structured data
- [x] Canonical URL handling

### 2.1.3 - Clean HTML Output ✅
- [x] Remove unnecessary HTML attributes
- [x] Minimize inline styles
- [x] Ensure valid HTML5 output
- [x] Test in WordPress theme compatibility

## 2.2 - Header Section Cleanup ✅

**Current Issue:** Shows various tags including non-public/non-SEO-friendly ones

### Required Changes ✅:
- [x] Audit all tags currently shown in content headers
- [x] Keep ONLY publicly visible, SEO-friendly tags
- [x] Keep ONLY functional/working tags
- [x] Remove all internal/debug tags from user-facing content
- [x] Document final tag structure

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