Two gaps made posts 650/657 appear to silently "lose" their featured
images on 2026-04-20:
1. The batch provider tagged each failed key with ['error' => ...] but
the ERROR log line it emitted didn't identify which key failed, so
operators couldn't tell image_a from image_b in the event log when
one of two parallel requests died.
2. Image_Pipeline::process_image_a/_b folded the per-key error into
$result['errors'] and returned silently, with no WARNING row. Ops
only learned about the miss when the outer catch in the caller fired
— and on the 2026-04-20 incident that outer catch didn't fire, so
nothing was logged at all except an unrelated pricing warning.
Fix:
- class-open-router-image-batch.php: collect_result() takes the request
key as its first argument and every Logger::error message reads
'OpenRouter batch image gen <class> for key "<key>": <detail>'.
Matches the shape of OpenRouter_Image_Support::log_retry.
- class-image-pipeline.php: process_image_a and process_image_b now
emit a Logger::warning('image_pipeline') row whenever $image_data is
missing or carries an error key, in addition to pushing to
$result['errors']. The warning fires whether or not the outer catch
runs.
Test: ImagePipelineTest::test_partial_batch_failure_emits_warning_log_row
mocks $wpdb, runs the pipeline with image_a erroring, and asserts at
least one warning/image_pipeline row was inserted.
No behavior change beyond logging; cost impact zero.
Part of the v0.8.0 image bundle (issues from thread image-mime-bug).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New toggle in Images settings controls whether the source-data-based
second image is generated. Disabling saves one image gen call + one
LLM prompt rewrite per article. Defaults to enabled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both Image A and Image B now fire concurrently through a single
generate_image_batch() call instead of sequentially. Total wall-clock
time equals the slowest image (~20s), not the sum (~40s), which
eliminates the Image B timeout problem on Hostinger where
max_execution_time killed the cron before the second request finished.
New files:
- class-open-router-image-batch.php — curl_multi orchestrator
- generate_image_batch() added to image provider interface
Pipeline refactored: prompts built upfront, single batch call, results
processed per-key. Cloudflare provider gets a sequential fallback.
Tests updated for batch API. All files under 300-line cap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three fixes in one:
1. Duplicate image: prepend_caption_to_post() was embedding the full
image + caption as a <figure> block, but the theme already displays
the featured image. Now only the caption text is prepended — no
second copy of the image.
2. Hardcoded model names: removed all FLUX.1/FLUX.2 references from
model-agnostic code (pipeline, prompt builder, sideloader, OpenRouter
provider, interface, admin labels). The Cloudflare provider still
references FLUX since it specifically wraps that model family.
3. Test alignment: OpenRouterImagePricingTest was asserting against
removed models (flux-2-pro, seedream). Updated to match current
COST_PER_IMAGE entries (Gemini Flash, GPT-5 Image).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Captions were being baked into the image by the FLUX model, causing
text to get cut off at the edges. Now the LLM generates scene and
caption separately — the scene drives image gen (with explicit
"no text in the image" instruction), and the caption is inserted
as a styled <figure>/<figcaption> HTML block at the top of the post.
Changes:
- rewrite_via_llm() returns array{scene, caption} instead of string
- build_article_prompt() and build_source_prompt() return {prompt, caption}
- Style suffix v4: removes "caption text" instruction, adds "no text" directive
- Image pipeline destructures prompt/caption, stores caption in attachment meta
- prepend_caption_to_post() inserts figure+figcaption HTML into post content
- Deduplicated generate_image_a/b into shared generate_single_image()
- One-time v4 migration auto-updates existing style suffix on deploy
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two fixes:
1. Image attachment: moved set_post_thumbnail() and Image B post meta
into generate_and_attach_images() so they persist immediately after
each image generates. Previously the caller set them after both images
completed — if the process timed out (common with GPT-5 Image at
~30s/image), the featured image was never attached and Image B was
never attempted.
2. Image prompts: replaced FLUX.1-optimized rewriter system prompt and
90s infomercial style suffix with prompts optimized for Gemini Flash
Image and GPT-5 Image. New style: premium scientific lifestyle
photography with golds/teals color grading. Includes one-time migration
to update stored style suffix.
Also logs when Image B is skipped due to missing source data (previously
silent), helping diagnose why some posts only get one image.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PHP 8.3 TypeError and Error extend \Throwable but NOT \Exception,
so catch(\Exception) silently drops them — explaining why the
generation pipeline fails at the publishing step with no activity
log entry. Now every catch in the generation path catches
\Throwable and logs the exception class name for diagnostics.
Bump to v0.2.7.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces Cloudflare Workers AI (FLUX.1 schnell) as the default image
provider with OpenRouter, which offers FLUX.2 Pro, Seedream 3.0,
Gemini Flash Image, and GPT Image 1 at comparable or better pricing.
- New provider class (3-file split: provider, pricing, support) reuses
the existing OpenRouter API key and Cloudflare AI Gateway
- Admin settings: new Image Provider dropdown (openrouter/cloudflare),
model picker shows all available image models from both providers
- Image pipeline auto-selects the configured provider at construction
- Cost logging now uses actual model name instead of hardcoded flux-1-schnell
- Default model changed to black-forest-labs/flux-2-pro ($0.03/image)
- Unit tests for pricing resolution and provider response parsing
Cost impact: FLUX.2 Pro at $0.03/image vs schnell at $0.0007/image —
~43x more expensive per image, but dramatically better quality. At 2
images/article × 1 article/day = ~$1.80/month. Seedream 3.0 ($0.003)
available as a budget alternative.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FLUX.1 schnell requires width and height to be divisible by 8.
The default OG image size 1200×630 has 630 % 8 = 6 remainder,
causing HTTP 400 on every image generation call.
Changes:
- Pipeline default height 630 → 632 (nearest 8-aligned value)
- Provider now rounds any dimension to nearest multiple of 8 as
a defensive guard before sending to the API
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Wrap cost_usd accumulation in is_wp_error() guard so WP_Error
returns from generate_image_a/b don't crash on array access
- Add PRAUTOBLOGGER_DEFAULT_IMAGE_STYLE_SUFFIX to test bootstrap
- Add is_wp_error, sanitize_title, esc_html__ mocks to ImagePipelineTest
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Union types (array|WP_Error, int|WP_Error, string|WP_Error) require
PHP 8.0+. Removed return type declarations while keeping @return
docblocks intact for IDE/static analysis support.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Completes the image + A/B experiment workstream by integrating
image generation into the post publishing pipeline.
New classes:
- class-image-pipeline.php: Orchestrates A/B generation (article-driven
Image A → featured; source-driven Image B → post meta). Each image
independently fallible; article publishes even if both fail.
- class-image-prompt-builder.php: Synthesizes visual prompts from article
title+content and Reddit source data. Appends CEO-locked 90s infomercial
style suffix. Keeps prompts concise for FLUX.1 quality.
- class-image-media-sideloader.php: Downloads image bytes, creates temp
file, sideloads via media_handle_sideload(), sets alt text and metadata,
cleans up temp files.
Changes to existing files:
- Publisher.attach_generated_images(): Runs image pipeline post-creation,
sets _thumbnail_id (Image A) and _prautoblogger_image_b_id (Image B).
Errors logged but don't block post publication.
- Settings: prautoblogger_image_enabled (toggle, default off).
Tests:
- ImagePipelineTest.php: Orchestration, cost tracking, graceful failures.
- ImagePromptBuilderTest.php: Prompt generation, length limits.
Docs:
- ARCHITECTURE.md: New step 6b in data flow, new files in file tree.
- CHANGELOG.md: Commit 1a/1b breakdown.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
