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>
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>
