The pipeline previously ran all articles sequentially in a single PHP
process. On Hostinger, this timed out at ~120s — enough for 1 article
but not 2+. Now the pipeline generates article 1 in-process, then
queues articles 2..N as individual WP-Cron events. Each article gets
its own PHP process with its own execution time budget, so we can
generate any number of articles regardless of server time limits.
Architecture:
- Pipeline_Runner: orchestrate (collect+analyze+score) + first article,
then serialize remaining ideas to wp_options and chain cron events
- Article_Worker (new): focused single-article worker extracted from
the pipeline loop — content gen + editorial + publish
- Executor: new on_process_article_queue() handler for chained events;
status poller re-schedules orphaned queue jobs automatically
- Article_Idea: added to_array() for queue serialization
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The collector used INSERT IGNORE which silently skipped duplicate items
without updating their collected_at timestamp. After 24 hours, these
items fell out of the analyzer's window permanently — even though they
kept appearing in the RSS feed. This caused "No new source data to
analyze" on every run once the initial batch aged out.
Switch to INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE to refresh collected_at
(plus score and comment_count, which change over time on Reddit).
The analyzer's 24-hour window now sees re-fetched items again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dedup now has two narrow scopes instead of checking all posts ever:
1. Intra-batch: prevents proposing two articles on the same topic
within a single pipeline run (keyword overlap ≥60%)
2. Recent posts: checks only posts from the last 7 days to avoid
back-to-back similar content
Older articles are intentionally NOT checked — revisiting a topic
weeks later is fine. This prevents the dedup from becoming
increasingly aggressive as the blog grows, which was the root cause
of "no viable article ideas found" with 125 collected items.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The old has_similar_post() used WordPress search ('s' parameter) which
matches ANY word in the query. On a niche peptide blog, every topic
shares vocabulary like "BPC-157", "peptide", "dosage" — so all 125
ideas were false-positive deduped against existing posts, producing
zero viable article ideas.
New approach: extract meaningful keywords (strip stopwords), compare
against each existing post title, and only dedup when ≥60% of the
topic's keywords overlap with a single title. Also caches the title
list per pipeline run to avoid repeated queries.
Added summary logging so we can see exactly how many ideas pass
through each filter stage.
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>
media_handle_sideload() is only available in admin context. When the
pipeline runs via WP-Cron (background generation), the function is
undefined. Add require_once guards for media.php, file.php, and
image.php before calling sideload.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hostinger's LiteSpeed web server kills any HTTP connection that runs
longer than 120 seconds with a 500 "Request Timeout" error. The full
pipeline (Reddit fetch → topic scoring → article generation → editorial
pass → image gen ×2) takes 120-180s, causing "Request failed: error"
on every manual generation attempt.
Architecture change:
- Generate Now AJAX handler now schedules a one-shot WP-Cron event
and returns immediately (~100ms response time)
- New prautoblogger_manual_generation cron action runs the pipeline
in a separate PHP process free from the connection timeout
- Pipeline progress is written to a transient at each stage
- New prautoblogger_generation_status AJAX endpoint lets the frontend
poll progress every 5 seconds
- Frontend auto-resumes polling on page load if a generation is running
- Direct wp-cron.php loopback ensures cron fires even if DISABLE_WP_CRON
is set (common on Hostinger)
Version bump: 0.2.9 → 0.3.0
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace photography-style prompts with a comedy writer system prompt
that generates Far Side-style single-panel comic concepts with punchy
captions. The LLM rewriter now outputs a comic scene + caption line,
and the style suffix renders as classic black-ink newspaper comic on
yellowed newsprint.
Includes v3 style migration to auto-replace both the old infomercial
and the short-lived photography style in wp_options. Bumped max_tokens
to 180 to accommodate scene + caption output.
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>
Root cause: both attach_generated_images() in post-assembler and the
retroactive handler in executor passed null as source_data to the image
pipeline. The pipeline's Image B branch requires non-null source_data
to fire, so Image B was silently skipped on every article since the
feature was built.
Fix: added get_source_data_for_image() to Source_Collector to retrieve
the original Reddit post title/content by source_ids. Post-assembler
now pulls source_ids from the Article_Idea; executor pulls them from
the _prautoblogger_source_ids post meta saved by the publisher.
Also added a regression test proving Image B is skipped when source_data
is null, so this handoff gap will be caught if re-introduced.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the rule-based prompt builder with a cheap LLM call
(analysis model via OpenRouter) that distills article content into
concise visual scene descriptions. The old rule-based method becomes
the fallback if the LLM call fails.
Key design decisions:
- System prompt teaches the LLM to describe objects/setting/lighting
instead of abstract concepts, and to avoid faces (FLUX.1 weakness)
- Uses the analysis model (gemini-2.5-flash-lite) at ~$0.001/call
- Cost is logged to the analytics dashboard via log_api_call()
- Style suffix is still appended separately so the rewriter only
handles scene composition
Cost impact: +~$0.001 per image on top of ~$0.0008 generation cost.
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>
Move system prompt, user prompt, and performance context builders into
PRAutoBlogger_Analysis_Prompts. Analyzer retains orchestration, data
fetch, parsing, and storage. Backward-compatible private proxies kept.
Both files well under 300-line limit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Taxonomy assignment, generation log linking, LLM content sanitization,
default author resolution, and image pipeline attachment moved to
PRAutoBlogger_Post_Assembler as static helpers. Publisher retains
create_post orchestration, publish/draft flow, and meta building.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extract read-only reporting methods from PRAutoBlogger_Cost_Tracker into a new
PRAutoBlogger_Cost_Reporter class. This reduces Cost_Tracker from 313 to 206
lines and Reporter to 141 lines, both under the 300-line cap.
Changed files:
- Create includes/core/class-cost-reporter.php with reporting methods:
* get_monthly_spend(): float
* get_daily_spend(int $days = 30): array
* get_spend_by_stage(string $start_date, string $end_date): array
* get_budget_utilization(): float
- Update includes/core/class-cost-tracker.php:
* Remove reporting methods
* Update is_budget_exceeded() and would_exceed_budget() to use Cost_Reporter
* Keep get_current_run_cost() (tracks current pipeline run only)
* Add @see cross-reference to Cost_Reporter
- Update templates and admin classes to instantiate Cost_Reporter:
* templates/admin/metrics-page.php
* templates/admin/settings-page.php
* includes/admin/class-admin-notices.php
* includes/admin/class-dashboard-widget.php
- Split tests/unit/Core/CostTrackerTest.php:
* Create tests/unit/Core/CostReporterTest.php for reporter methods
* Keep run ID and budget enforcement tests in CostTrackerTest
Autoloader automatically discovers PRAutoBlogger_Cost_Reporter class.
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>
- Add `would_exceed_budget(float)` to pre-check budget before API calls
- Add `log_image_generation()` for image pipeline cost logging
- Guard Logger::log() against null $wpdb in unit test environments
- Both methods called by image pipeline (commit 1b) but were missing
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.
Co-authored-by: peptiderepo <peptiderepo@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Address CTO audit findings for PRAutoBlogger:
- CI pipeline now runs PHPCS (WordPress standards) and PHPUnit before deploy
- Removed TikTok/Instagram/YouTube stub providers (dead code, not registered)
- Rewrote PublisherTest with real behavioral assertions (post_status, metadata,
taxonomy, log linking, hooks) instead of method-existence checks
- Added cross-system LLM budget coordination docs to ARCHITECTURE.md
- Bumped version to 0.2.2
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LLMs sometimes ignore format instructions and wrap content in markdown
code fences or full HTML document structures. Added sanitize_llm_content()
to the publisher that strips these before wp_kses_post() runs, preventing
raw ```html blocks and <html><head><body> wrappers from reaching post_content.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Rewrite encryption with "enc:" prefix to permanently eliminate
the double-encryption bug on settings save
- Add one-time migration to clear legacy non-prefixed encrypted values
- Rewrite content analyzer prompts to request N distinct diverse topics
across 5 categories (question, complaint, comparison, news, guide)
- Pass target_count*2 from pipeline to analyzer for headroom
- Add skip_dedup flag so manual Generate Now always produces content
- Generate Now button now sends force=1 to clear stale locks
- Rename OpenRouter provider files to PSR-4 convention (hyphenated)
- Switch default models to google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
- Clean up reddit_debug log channel to standard 'reddit'
- Bump version to 0.2.1
Cost: ~$0.003/article with Gemini 2.0 Flash, ~34s pipeline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
WordPress plugin that auto-researches topics from Reddit, generates
SEO-optimized articles via OpenRouter LLMs, runs them through a chief
editor agent, and publishes on a daily schedule.
Includes:
- Full generation pipeline (collect → analyze → score → generate → review → publish)
- Cost tracking and budget enforcement
- Admin UI: settings, review queue, metrics, activity log
- CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions → WordPress REST deploy)
- Unit test suite (PHPUnit + Brain Monkey)
- Structured logging with configurable verbosity
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
