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5.7 – 2026-05-24

Day-after follow-up to 5.6 — runtime-only brand blocks, engagement-gated Web Push, plus three small admin polish items

Web Push — engagement-gated banner (Chrome quiet-UI mitigation)
* NEW: the opt-in banner no longer mounts on a flat setTimeout(SHOW_DELAY_MS). It now waits for AIEO Session Tracker to dispatch an aieo:engagement CustomEvent on document at one of these milestones: pageviews-2, pageviews-3, scroll-25, scroll-50, scroll-75, add-to-cart, time-30s. The "Show delay (ms)” admin setting becomes a minimum-wait floor (banner never appears before that even if scroll fires at 2s)
* NEW: hard-cap fallback at 90s — visitors who never hit a milestone but also don’t bounce still see the banner eventually
* Graceful degradation: when AIEO Session Tracker is absent (operator disabled it OR runtime-only install without the admin asset), falls back to the original flat-timeout behavior so no install regresses
* Why this matters: Chrome’s quieter notification permission UI auto-denies prompts on domains with low acceptance rates. Asking bounce visitors on first-page-load poisons the reputation — every silent auto-denial counts as a "Block” signal. By only prompting engaged visitors, the acceptance rate per prompt climbs and Chrome’s quiet UI fires less aggressively over time
* Engagement signal source: AIEO_SESSION_TRACKER.pageViewsInSession (new public property, sessionStorage-backed, incremented eagerly even for bounce visitors so counts are accurate). New aieo:engagement CustomEvent is also dispatched from inside trackAddToCart and trackScrollDepth so other consumers can hook in too — no new tracker, just extends what’s already there

Brand blocks now runtime-resolvable — admin plugin no longer required for storefront pages that render aieo/brand-*
* NEW: AIEO_Runtime_Brand_Blocks delegate in the runtime plugin registers the six brand-related server-rendered blocks (aieo/brand-azindex, brand-slider, brand-rails, brand-related, brand-archive-hero, brand-story) at init priority 29 so they’re available even when the admin plugin isn’t in the request’s plugin whitelist. block.json + render.php files stay in the admin plugin’s directory (single source of truth); AIEO_Core_Brand_Vitals autoloads via the mu-plugins autoloader regardless of admin being active
* AIEO_Blocks_Loader::register_blocks() now consults WP_Block_Type_Registry::is_registered() before each register_block_type() call — when both plugins are active the runtime registration at init@29 wins, and admin’s loop at init@30 silently skips already-registered blocks (no more _doing_it_wrong notices from duplicate registration)
* Shared style handle aieo-article-cards (needed by brand-related) is also registered by the runtime delegate so brand-related renders correctly in runtime-only mode
* Use case: pages with brand sliders / brand A-Z directory / related-brands rails on category, blog, and landing pages no longer require the full admin plugin on every request — same render output, ~40 ms saved per page on cold-cache fetches

Fix — Session Tracker JS 404 + MIME-type refusal on every front-end page
* Fixed: aieo-session-tracker.js returned HTTP 404 with text/html body because the class was moved to the runtime plugin (Phase 1.5) but the JS asset was left behind in the admin plugin. plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . '../assets/js/aieo-session-tracker.js' from the runtime class resolved to runtime/assets/js/aieo-session-tracker.js — which didn’t exist. Browsers logged "Refused to execute script from … because its MIME type (‘text/html’) is not executable” on every page load. The asset now ships alongside both plugin copies of the class so the runtime-first autoloader path finds its own asset

Critical fix — Web Push: opt-in pipeline broken by deferred JS + Service-Worker 404 + silent localStorage throws
* Fixed: AIEO_DMM_Web_Push now registers rocket_delay_js_exclusions on activation so WP Rocket’s "Delay JavaScript execution” feature stops treating aieo-push-optin, aieoPush, aieo-push-sw and aieo-magic-link-modal as deferred-until-interaction scripts. Without this, the opt-in banner JS only ran after a mouse-move / scroll / click that lands inside the page — bots, remote-desktop sessions, and visitors who follow a deep link straight to a product page never triggered it, so the subscribe POST never fired. Now Just Works on every install with no operator config
* Fixed: aieo-push-optin.js silently died on Edge’s Tracking Prevention (and Safari ITP) when localStorage.getItem() threw — the unguarded call killed the entire IIFE before the banner could even render. Now wrapped in try/catch; blocked storage is treated as "no cooldown set” so the banner still appears
* NEW: silent re-subscribe path — when Notification.permission === 'granted' from a prior visit but no wp_aieo_push_subscriptions row exists (e.g. the earlier SW-404 bug killed the original POST), the JS now silently registers the SW, calls pushManager.subscribe() and POSTs the result on page load. No banner re-prompt, no operator action — historical "granted but never recorded” users heal themselves on next visit
* Improved: postSubscription() now checks response.ok and throws on non-2xx so the outer try/catch records the failure instead of fire-and-forget. CFG.debug-gated console output for the operator who wants to dig in
* See docs/WEB_PUSH_INSTALL.md §4 for the Nginx location = /aieo-push-sw.js block — the third leg of this trio (404 SW URL was the upstream root cause on the FF prod incident 2026-05-23)

Data Prep Schedule — product_attributes stage added so brand blocks self-populate without the manual rebuild
* NEW: hourly data-prep cron now runs a product_attributes stage between category_hierarchy and product_vitals. This stage calls the AIEO_InsertCoreProductAttributes stored procedure with the operator’s configured brand / vendor / size / color attribute taxonomies — resolving parent brand_id from wp_term_relationships. The existing propagate_brand stage then copies parent → variations as before
* Why it matters: brand blocks (aieo/brand-azindex, brand-slider, brand-rails, brand-related, brand-archive-hero, brand-story) used to render empty on sites where the operator hadn’t ticked "Please recreate the product core attributes and principal categories” in the Operational Efficiency Settings UI. That checkbox is now correctly scoped as a manual intervention only — the hourly schedule covers the day-to-day case
* Defensive: the new stage uses information_schema.ROUTINES to verify the SP exists before CALLing it — older installs without the SP get a clean no-op instead of breaking the whole tick

Google Reviews — single-location auto-fallback + clearer empty states
* NEW: when the aieo/google-reviews block (or [aieo_google_reviews] shortcode) is in "Single location” mode but no slug is set AND the page can’t auto-resolve a location from context, the block now falls back to the operator’s only configured location if exactly one exists. Most SMB stores have a single physical shop — they no longer need to pick a slug for every block instance, the block just works
* Improved: the empty-state message now shows the actual number of locations configured and steers the operator to the right next step. "No Google Reviews locations configured yet — add one under…” (when 0 exist) vs "You have N locations configured — pick one via the block’s sidebar, or switch to All-locations / Cards grid mode” (when 2+ exist). Replaces the old cryptic "Set a location slug, or place this block on a page bound to a location row”
* The admin Settings tab now carries a full "How to display the reviews on the storefront” help card explaining the FSE block, the three shortcodes, all 11 attributes, and a do_shortcode() PHP-template snippet — so operators on classic themes / page builders find the docs without leaving the admin

Google Reviews — shortcodes for non-FSE themes + runtime-only exposure
* NEW: [aieo_google_reviews] shortcode — wraps the same render path the aieo/google-reviews block uses, so classic themes / widget areas / page-builder pages can drop in Google Reviews without needing FSE block-template editing. Single-location mode when a location attribute is supplied ([aieo_google_reviews location="downtown"]), all-locations mixed-feed otherwise ([aieo_google_reviews]). All block attributes are exposed in snake_case: min_rating, max_count, layout (grid/list/carousel), presentation (static/slider/rotator), autoplay_sec, show_overall, show_rate_us, show_maps_button, heading, mode (single/all_mixed/cards_grid)
* NEW: [aieo_google_locations_grid] shortcode — convenience alias forced to mode="cards_grid" for the per-location cards layout. Accepts the same attributes
* Single source of truth: both shortcodes call AIEO_Google_Reviews_Block::render() directly, so the cache, the markup, and the CSS handle are identical to the block output — operators can mix-and-match blocks (FSE) and shortcodes (classic) on the same site without divergent rendering
* NEW: AIEO_Runtime_Google_Reviews delegate exposes the block + shortcodes to runtime-only contexts — admin’s AIEO_DMM_Google_Reviews module is no longer required on the frontend. block class files stay in admin’s includes/dmm/google-reviews/ (single source of truth); the mu-plugins autoloader resolves them on demand. The block class is now idempotent (AIEO_Google_Reviews_Block::register() guarded by a $registered flag) and admin’s call is gated behind ! defined( 'AIEO_RUNTIME_OWNS_AJAX' ) so runtime is exclusive when both plugins are active. Same aieo/store-info block also exposed

Data Prep Schedule
* NEW: product_attributes stage runs hourly between category_hierarchy and product_vitals — calls AIEO_InsertCoreProductAttributes automatically so parent brand_id populates without ticking the manual "Recreate product core attributes” checkbox
* NEW: per-stage Notes column in the Last-run table — shows useful metrics per stage (e.g. "4921 / 13513 with brand · 194 distinct brands”)

Admin polish
* Fixed: Database Performance Optimization card no longer hardcodes "MariaDB 11.4+ detected!” / "MySQL 8.0+ detected!” — now interpolates the actual detected version from aieo_check_mariadb_version() (e.g. "MariaDB 11.8.7 detected!”). Falls back to the prior threshold strings if version_number is somehow missing
* Fixed: Google Reviews → Locations admin no longer uses Femme-Fatale-specific placeholder text (piraeus slug, Femme Fatale Πειραιάς display name). All four placeholders are now generic + translatable (e.g. main-store, downtown, branch-2, Customer-facing label for this location, etc.) so the form isn’t shipping client-branded examples

5.6 – 2026-05-23

Same-day follow-up to 5.5 — Fulfillment UX polish + two production hotfixes + CSV round-trip cleanup

Production hotfixes
* Hotfix: Undefined constant "AIEO_VERSION" fatal in AIEO_Wishlist::enqueue_assets() on category pages when AIEO Runtime loads before the main plugin’s constant definition. Defensive defined() fallback chain in the runtime: AIEO_VERSION → AIEO_RUNTIME_VERSION → '0.0.0'. Same pattern for AIEO_FILE. Surfaced on prod femme-fatale.gr /me-ammonia/ as a site-wide HTTP 500 immediately after the 5.5 upgrade
* Performance: new AIEO_Perf::strip_aioseo_product_schema_on_archives() short-circuits AIOSEO Pro’s Product / WooCommerceProduct / Offer / AggregateOffer schema graphs on archive and taxonomy pages. AIOSEO was iterating every product in the loop and calling $product->get_available_variations(), which on Iconic Variation Swatches triggers a $wpdb->get_results() per variation — ~900 queries per render on a 15-variable-product category. Single-product pages are unaffected (full JSON-LD still emitted where Google rich results actually matter). Prod render time on /me-ammonia/: 9.4s → 3.2s

Fulfillment — order-edit meta box
* Fixed: Add Voucher carrier dropdown was showing every registered carrier including disabled ones. Now filters to operator-enabled carriers + custom carriers only (matches the rest of the admin)
* Fixed: pressing Enter in the tracking-number input was submitting the order’s outer form, navigating to the "Downloaded products” panel. The AIEO meta-box inputs now suppress Enter and trigger the explicit Save button instead
* Improved: ACS (and any carrier already mapped via get_carrier_for_order()) is pre-selected when the modal opens, instead of defaulting to the alphabetical-first carrier
* Improved: button labels now reflect what will actually happen — "Save tracking” / "Generate voucher” by mode, with a paired "Save + mark completed” / "Generate voucher + mark completed” for the common single-click flow
* Fixed: custom carriers with create_mode = 'manual' (no API integration) no longer error with "driver does not support create_voucher”. The manual flow now persists the tracking number directly and fires the customer email, bypassing the driver call

Fulfillment — Carriers without API admin
* NEW: inline Edit button next to Remove on every row — label and tracking-URL template editable in place; Save / Cancel pair posts to the same upsert AJAX endpoint
* Fixed: tracking_url_template field was being silently ignored by the courier-driver base when an operator overrode the per-carrier default. AIEO_Courier_Driver_Base::tracking_url() now consults the operator-saved template first
* NEW: filter aieo_custom_carriers — themes / plugins can register carriers from functions.php, same pattern as WooCommerce Shipment Tracking’s wc_shipment_tracking_get_providers

Fulfillment — Settings
* NEW: "Backfill customer shipping paid” card — one-shot retrospective pass that fills _aieo_customer_shipping_paid on historical orders so the Shipment Cost reports’ income column is populated for past periods (not only orders placed after the cost-tracking went live)

Shipment Cost reports
* NEW: sortable column headers on the results table — click to sort by orders / income / our cost / free-shipping subsidy. In-memory client-side sort (the result set is already paginated server-side)

Role-based pricing — CSV round-trip
* Fixed: import now strips a leading UTF-8 BOM from the uploaded file before parsing (Excel-on-Windows exports leave one). Previously caused "must include sku column” errors when the actual header was \xEF\xBB\xBFsku
* Fixed: import auto-detects the separator (, vs ; vs \t) by counting candidates in the first line. Greek-locale Excel exports use ;; the previous hardcoded , parser produced unparseable single-column rows
* Improved: import error messages now state the detected separator and the header row that was parsed, so operators can see exactly why their file was rejected
* Fixed: export no longer prepends a UTF-8 BOM. Cross-environment round-trips (export from one site, import into another) used to fail until the import learned to strip BOMs; now the file is BOM-clean from the start, keeping cat / awk / diff output untouched as well

Critical fix — Social Login settings silently wiped on every Save
* Fixed: AIEO_DMM_Social_Login::ajax_save_settings() used the sanitize_text_field( $array ) anti-pattern as the guard for both providers and intents POST arrays. sanitize_text_field() on an array returns '' (empty string), so is_array('') was always false — every Save click silently wrote empty providers + every-intent-off, regardless of what the operator had ticked in the UI. Symptom: "I’ve enabled Google + Facebook for login / checkout but the buttons never render anywhere.” The guard is now is_array($_POST['providers']) directly; per-field sanitization (sanitize_text_field, sanitize_key) still runs on each value. Operators with previously-wiped settings need to re-enter their config once
* Same anti-pattern was caught in 3 other modules in 5.2 (see memory wp_sanitize_text_field_array_antipattern); this one slipped through because the SSO admin tab is less frequently tested

Marketplace Order Importer — webhook setup guide + Rooster-derived tokens
* NEW: per-vendor "Setup help” card on the AIEO MOI → Vendors tab. Surfaces the webhook URL prominently with a one-click Copy button and per-provider step-by-step instructions for where to paste it into the marketplace’s merchant panel. For Skroutz: deep-links to the exact merchants.skroutz.gr settings page, names the field operators need to find ("Webhook URL / Webhook παραγγελιών”), and reminds them to deactivate the legacy skroutz-marketplace-xml-for-woocommerce plugin once the new URL is saved. Poll-only providers (Shopflix, eMag) get the card skipped — nothing for the operator to do
* NEW: webhook tokens on freshly-created vendors are now derived from the operator’s Rooster API key via substr(hash('sha256', $rooster_key . '|moi-webhook|' . $vendor_slug), 0, 20). Each install gets a unique, stable, self-identifying webhook URL — and the URL is regenerable from the Rooster key alone, so losing the vendor row no longer means re-pasting random tokens into every marketplace panel. Hash, not substring, so the token never exposes any portion of the Rooster key. Falls back to a random token on standalone (non-Rooster) installs
* NEW: per-vendor "Use Rooster-derived token” button on the setup card lets operators migrate existing random tokens to the Rooster-derived value (a small "✓ Token derived from your Rooster API key” badge then appears under the URL). Skips gracefully when Rooster isn’t connected
* AIEO_MOI_Vendor_Manager::derive_webhook_token_from_rooster($slug) + rotate_webhook_token_from_rooster($id) are the new helpers; new optional contract method webhook_setup_steps($url) on providers drives the per-provider guidance (Skroutz ships it; absent on poll-only providers)

Product Display — classic-theme info-column ordering
* Fixed: the operator-saved Display Order for the info-column cluster (Product Meta / Payment Logos / Trust Badges / …) was only being honored on FSE themes. On classic themes those modules were hardcoded to woocommerce_single_product_summary priorities 30 / 35 / 40, so Product Meta always rendered last regardless of how the operator dragged the rows. New AIEO_DMM_Product_Display::reorder_classic_theme_cluster() re-prioritises the three callbacks into the 31–34 band per the saved order, mirroring the existing reorder_classic_theme_recos() pattern. Modules with independent slot logic on classic themes (Brand Display’s position picker, Brand Gifts’ pre-cart band, Complementary / Waitlist / Product Needs’ add-to-cart-form positions) are intentionally left where they are

Deprecation
* AIEO_DMM_Shipment_Tracking module renamed in the admin sidebar to "Shipment Tracking (legacy)” with a yellow deprecation banner. The new Fulfillment → Carriers system supersedes it end-to-end; the legacy module will be removed in a future release

5.5 – 2026-05-23

MAJOR RELEASE: WooCommerce 10.9 forward-compatibility + critical fix for the silent variation-attribute wipe + unified third-party variation gallery filter

Critical fix — silent loss of variations on save (long-standing bug)
* Fixed: products whose variation attribute is type image or button no longer lose their is_variation declaration when the parent product is saved. The bug: AIEO’s image / button attribute types never registered an admin form-field renderer for their term multi-select. When WC’s classic editor’s product-save handler ran, attribute_values[] was empty in POST for those attribute rows, so WC’s WC_Meta_Box_Product_Data::prepare_attributes() dropped them — wiping _product_attributes for the variation attribute on every product save
* Fixed: new public method AIEO_DMM_Swatches::render_custom_attribute_terms_select() hooks woocommerce_product_option_terms for color/image/button types and emits the same wc-taxonomy-term-search multiselect WC uses for select-typed attributes. Future saves preserve _product_attributes correctly
* Added: one-shot auto-repair for products that were already silently broken. On plugin update, reconstructs the missing variation-attribute declaration from each variation’s attribute_pa_* postmeta and re-attaches the term relationships to the parent. Skips products that reference deleted (orphan) taxonomies — those need manual re-mapping by the operator

WooCommerce 10.9 forward-compatibility — variation_gallery + wc-visual-attribute
* NEW: declares compatibility with WC 10.9’s experimental variation_gallery feature via FeaturesUtil::declare_compatibility(). When merchants enable the toggle in Settings → Advanced → Features, AIEO’s variation gallery data is already in WC’s canonical postmetas — no migration window, no broken stores
* NEW: declares compatibility with WC 10.9’s experimental wc-visual-attribute (Color swatches for attributes) feature
* Schema migration: botiga_variation_gallery → _thumbnail_id + _product_image_gallery (CSV) + _wc_variation_gallery_legacy_fallback_disabled = yes sentinel on every variation. Video entries (uploaded video attachments + YouTube / Vimeo embed JSON) relocate to the AIEO sidecar _aieo_variation_gallery_videos with their original positions preserved for re-interleaving at render time
* Schema migration: term swatch metas product_attribute_color / product_attribute_color_type / gradient + multiple sub-keys → WC canonical color term meta + AIEO sidecars (_aieo_swatch_color_type, _aieo_swatch_gradient, _aieo_swatch_multiple). Image-type swatches relocate product_attribute_image → _aieo_swatch_image_id. Legacy keys are preserved as read-fallback during the cutover window
* Schema migration: attribute taxonomies with attribute_type = 'color' flip to wc-visual so WC’s native chips, filter blocks, and the variation-selector inner block recognise them. Operator-opt-in: the flip only runs when WC’s wc-visual-attribute feature is enabled
* Migration runs via Action Scheduler in 250-item batches; idempotent; also exposed as wp aieo migrate wc-compat for manual / observable runs
* When WC’s variation_gallery feature is enabled, AIEO unhooks \Automattic\WooCommerce\Internal\VariationGallery\ClassicVariationGalleryAdmin::render_variation_gallery_field so the admin shows AIEO’s picker (which handles videos) instead of two competing pickers

New filter aieo_variation_gallery_image_ids — bridge for third-party storage
* NEW: single public filter apply_filters('aieo_variation_gallery_image_ids', $ids, $variation_id, $context). Third-party plugins / themes (Iconic Variations, the retired WooCommerce.com Additional Variation Images extension, custom themes) hook this filter from functions.php to tell AIEO where they store variation gallery image IDs. Return non-null array to short-circuit; return null to delegate to AIEO’s canonical → legacy resolution
* NEW: AIEO_DMM_Variations_Gallery::resolve_image_ids($vid, $ctx) — the single public reader every AIEO module calls. Replaces direct postmeta reads in: variation gallery admin picker, woocommerce_available_variation JS payload, aieo/product-variations-gallery block render, exchanger import/export, data-prep stage
* $context values: 'admin', 'frontend', 'block_render', 'data_prep', 'serializer' — let third-party adapters apply different rules per caller
* Documentation: docs/FILTER_VARIATION_GALLERY_IMAGE_IDS.md with 4 worked examples (Iconic, Additional Variation Images, custom theme, context-aware) + performance + testing notes

Marketplace feeds gain variation gallery URLs
* NEW: vitals.image_gallery_urls (existing column, now populated) gets a fresh data-prep stage that walks _product_image_gallery for each row and emits a CSV of full-size URLs. Marketplace feeds (Google Shopping g:additional_image_link, Skroutz <additional_image>, Shopify images) now ship variation galleries without a separate API call
* SQL bulk-fill (canonical _product_image_gallery first, legacy botiga_variation_gallery fallback) handles 20-image galleries via a chained SUBSTRING_INDEX walk; ~1s for 39k rows on the FF benchmarker
* PHP post-pass applies the aieo_variation_gallery_image_ids filter only when registered, so the typical store pays zero extra DB cost

Cart, sticky-add-to-cart, and product-card readers updated for the new sidecar metas
* class-aieo-dmm-swatches-runtime.php::resolve_term_color_style() — read order is now AIEO sidecar (_aieo_swatch_color_type + _aieo_swatch_gradient / _aieo_swatch_multiple) → WC canonical color → legacy product_attribute_color*. Gradient and multiple-color swatches keep rendering as before; new term edits use canonical + sidecar without breaking legacy plugins that still read the old keys
* class-aieo-dmm-swatches-runtime.php::resolve_term_image_src() — _aieo_swatch_image_id → product_attribute_image → new aieo_swatch_image_id_for_term filter for forward-compat when WC adds image swatches (currently WC10.9-dev ships color swatches only)
* class-aieo-dmm-checkout-product-images.php — same sidecar → canonical → legacy chain when picking the cart-line variation thumbnail
* class-aieo-dmm-sticky-atc.php — color, gradient, multiple-color, and image swatches all read through the new resolution chain. Sticky cart on PDP keeps rendering brand-specific image swatches identically pre- and post-migration
* class-aieo-dmm-data-prep-scheduler.php — SQL for variation_swatch and image_url updated to two-pass (canonical preferred, legacy as WHERE NULL fill-in)

Custom carriers — inline Edit + new third-party filter
* NEW: inline Edit button on every row in the "Carriers without API” admin table. Label and tracking-URL template become editable in place; Save / Cancel pair posts to the same aieo_ff_save_custom_carrier AJAX endpoint (slug is the upsert key). The shipping-method-link dropdown keeps its own per-row autosave — Edit doesn’t touch it
* NEW: filter aieo_custom_carriers lets themes / plugins register carriers from functions.php, mirroring WooCommerce Shipment Tracking’s wc_shipment_tracking_get_providers pattern. Carriers added via filter appear identically to operator-added ones in the admin table, the order-row tracking dropdown, and customer emails. Operator overrides via save win on the next read (option-side wins because the upsert is final)

Exchanger (product import/export) writes WC canonical
* class-aieo-exchanger-product-serializer.php — variation gallery export goes through resolve_image_ids(), so third-party filters and WC10.9 canonical reads both round-trip correctly
* class-aieo-exchanger-product-importer.php — imported variation galleries now write to _thumbnail_id + _product_image_gallery + sentinel (drops the legacy botiga_variation_gallery write target). Existing exports stay readable

Attribute-type registration cleanup
* available_attribute_types() — keeps AIEO-only image + button types always. Registers color only when WC’s wc-visual substitute isn’t already present in the filter chain (avoids two "Color” entries in the admin dropdown post-migration). Pre-migration / WC feature off, behavior is unchanged

Tested up to: WooCommerce 10.9-dev nightly, validated on the femme-fatale.gr benchmarker (39k vitals rows, 7,443 variations migrated, 6,789 with multi-image galleries). Legacy om-product-swatches v1.0.4 coexists cleanly — both plugins write their own keys on term save, no conflict

5.0 – 2026-05-15

MAJOR RELEASE: Insights Chat (Claude-powered), Joint Session × Attribution Analytics, Four-Layer Retention, and the Pro Tier

Insights Chat — Claude-powered, in-admin
* NEW: Tools → Insights Chat — ask your shop questions in plain language using the AI Chat Anthropic key you already have
* NEW: 33 purpose-built Claude data abilities (registered through the WordPress Abilities API)
* NEW: Categorized accordion suggestion chips across 11 question groups — Customers, Brand portfolio, Recommendation rails, Attribution & archives, Product needs audit, Star ratings, Content & blog, Cross-skill, Store analytics, Promotions / launches / sales, Newsletters & campaigns
* NEW: Tool-use loop with bidirectional Anthropic-safe tool naming
* NEW: All chips and abilities respect manage_woocommerce capability

Session Tracker × Attribution Engine Integration
* NEW: Cross-cuts engagement (session tracker) with conversion (attribution engine) via a shared aieo_session_id cookie
* NEW: Blog-post attribution — clicks from blog posts to products now carry source=blog_post + source_meta.post_id
* NEW: Engagement-bucket buy-probability — empirical P(cart-add) per (scroll-quartile, time-quartile, mouse-activity) bucket
* NEW: Abandoned-cart triage, cart-removal analysis, rating × conversion correlation, need × conversion correlation
* NEW: 11 new joint-analytics abilities backing the chat suggestion chips
* Improved: Attribution Engine now respects Session Tracker’s consent state (GDPR alignment)

Insights Remote DB Streaming + Four-Layer Retention
* NEW: Insights Remote DB Settings tab — stream raw events to your own operator-owned MariaDB / MySQL via the existing ERP connection registry
* NEW: Configurable export frequency (15 min / hourly / daily) with per-table lag dashboard and dry-run "Test export”
* NEW: 5 pre-aggregated daily rollup tables so the chat abilities never hit raw event tables — millisecond responses regardless of history size
* NEW: aieo_aggregate_rollups nightly cron + unified aieo_archive_run weekly cron
* NEW: Tightened hot retention — 14 days (sessions), 30 days (reco events), 365 days (cart-adds)
* NEW: Local-purge failsafe — hot rows are NOT deleted until the remote-export bookkeeping confirms receipt
* Improved: Net stable DB footprint ~1.1 GB year-over-year (was unbounded — projected 6-8 GB by year 2)

Star Ratings → SEO Schema Bridge
* NEW: AggregateRating JSON-LD bridged into AIOSEO, Yoast, and RankMath via their schema filters
* NEW: Fallback head-injected JSON-LD when no SEO plugin is detected
* NEW: Per-feature enable/disable toggle on the Star Ratings admin page

Floating Mini Side-Cart, Sticky ATC & Free-Shipping Bar
* NEW: Two-column floating mini-cart — left: "You might like” recommendations, right: Shopping Bag / Recently Viewed tabs with the free-shipping progress bar right under the tab header
* NEW: 500 ms debounced quantity AJAX → 400-byte JSON → optimistic client-side recompute — qty changes feel instant, no full cart recalculation on the server
* NEW: Session-level HTML cache keyed by cart_hash (30 s TTL); WC fragments integration keeps every other widget in sync
* NEW: Side-cart recommendations sourced from the DMM product-bundle endpoint — same cached HTML powers the product page AND the mini-cart
* NEW: Sticky Add-to-Cart bar (DOM classes + JS global kept verbatim so existing CSS/JS bundles work without modification)
* NEW: Free-Shipping admin — threshold + product / brand exclusions, with the package-rates filter that strips free shipping when any excluded item is in the cart

Pricing Engine — Role Pricing, Brand Discounts, Loyalty Classes
* NEW: Per-role price overrides via CSV upload (staged batch validation → AJAX batches); mirrors into the legacy om-role-pricing table so existing storefront integrations keep working byte-for-byte
* NEW: Brand-level % discounts with optional start/end-date windows
* NEW: Loyalty class definitions + user assignments — applied in the global pricing recipe by AIEO_DMM_Pricing_Engine
* NEW: Stacking recipe: Role Pricing → Brand Discount → Loyalty Class — each customer sees the strongest applicable price

Conversion Boosters — Brand Gifts & Exit Intent
* NEW: Brand-based free-gift offers — gift (price = 0) auto-added when the cart subtotal of the offer’s brand(s) crosses min_subtotal within the date window
* NEW: Configurable exit-intent modal — fires on cursor exit-intent after a warm-up delay; two HTML bodies (generic site-wide + upgraded checkout-specific); optional restriction to checkout-only or anonymous visitors; session-storage dismissal
* NEW: Legacy exit-intent-offer standalone plugin auto-imported on first read and deactivated — no manual migration

Marketplace Connectors & Shipping
* NEW: Marketplace Order Importer — pulls Skroutz / e-shop / Amazon orders into WooCommerce as native orders so attribution, stock, customer profiles, and fulfillment stay unified. Per-vendor webhook URLs with rotatable tokens, configurable SKU strategy, default order status per vendor
* NEW: Streaming Marketplace Feeds generator — handles 35k-product catalogues without blowing memory; include/exclude rules by product or brand, XML or CSV output, per-feed cron registration on save
* NEW: Shipment Tracking provider list cleaned up — drops US/UK/Canada/Germany defaults, adds Greek + Cypriot carriers + Stoferno.gr
* NEW: Smart Shipping Label — guests / postcode-less carts see "Carrier (Από €X.XX)” with the minimum rate so they know shipping isn’t free without seeing a misleading default. Free-shipping carts hide method prices and the generic "Free shipping” pseudo-method (customer still picks a real carrier, just with €0). Greek "184 53” postcodes auto-normalize to "18453”

Customer Intelligence + Web Push + Voice-of-Customer
* NEW: wp_aieo_customer_intelligence — keyed by eponymous_id (AIEO’s canonical customer identity), with secondary wp_user_id + source_table columns so anonymous → logged-in stitching has a single home
* NEW: Chunked recompute stored procedure over AIEO’s pre-built snapshot tables — omnichannel customer view (eshop + in-store merged) is the source of truth
* NEW: Behavioural segments — Top customers, Lost cohort, Lookalikes, Abandoned-cart, reactivation
* NEW: Triggered web-push flows — welcome, reactivation, price-drop, back-in-stock — with full dispatch log + per-subscriber delivery + click attribution
* NEW: Customer Survey Intelligence — Gravity Forms 18 + 20 ingest (real-time hook + daily cron safety net + manual button), 7 high-signal metrics (NPS class, overall satisfaction, professional-verified, personal priorities, discovery channel, gift category preference, personal profile), composite voc_score (0-100)
* NEW: "Notify me when back in stock” Waitlist — out-of-stock product pages render the signup form, stock watcher emails subscribers when stock flips back; one-shot migration from the legacy PPE waitlist table
* NEW: Wishlist analytics — read-only admin views: which products are most-wishlisted, which surfaces drive adds, which pages / categories convert to wishlist

Pro Tier — Frosted-Glass Overlays on 13 Admin Tabs
* NEW: Apple-glass overlay with PRO badge, feature-specific title + description + bullets, and "Upgrade to Pro” CTA
* NEW: Pro-locked tabs — Attribution Dashboard, Advertising Campaigns, Web Push, Customer Intelligence Surveys, Insights Chat, Shipment Cost Reports, Insights Remote DB Settings, Action Scheduler Cleanup, ERP Bridge, ERP Database, Order Documents & Couriers, Marketplace Order Importer, Branch Stock Scanner, Order Cancellations
* Improved: Pro detection now honors BOTH paths — eshop-optimizer.com Pro membership OR a valid rooster.systems Content Connector API key (either is sufficient)
* Improved: Locked tabs do not execute heavy queries or expose credentials for non-Pro operators

Attribution Menu Restructure
* NEW: New top-level "Attribution” menu group containing the Dashboard and the Advertising Campaigns admin
* NEW: Campaigns auto-populate from utm_campaign — no manual correlation needed; new campaign slugs appear as auto_draft rows after the next dashboard load
* Improved: Advertising Campaigns moved from Pricing & Offers into Attribution (same dropdown as the dashboard it shares data with)

Greek Translation Pass + i18n Hygiene
* NEW: ~70 new Greek (el) translation strings covering Pro overlays, suggestion chips, and admin navigator labels
* Improved: All 11 admin-navigator group labels wrapped in __()
* Improved: 117 i18n errors fixed across the plugin

Plugin-check & Security Hygiene
* Improved: Plugin-check ERRORs reduced from 132 to 0 (excluding the agreed-upon DB stored-procedure exceptions acknowledged by the WordPress.org plugin review team)
* Improved: All AJAX handlers routed through a centralised nonce verifier
* Improved: Every new DB-touching ability has min/max input bounds and sanitize_key on all string keys

Architectural Improvements
* NEW: Module V2 manifest pattern (data/admin/frontend/compute split scaffolding — opt-in per module migration)
* NEW: .distignore file at plugin root keeps internal docs, dev tooling, and the Claude Code skill pack out of the wp.org distribution …