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ThinkRank AI SEO – AI SEO Plugin for WordPress: Schema, XML Sitemaps, Meta Tags, Search Console & Local SEO / 2.7.0
ThinkRank AI SEO – AI SEO Plugin for WordPress: Schema, XML Sitemaps, Meta Tags, Search Console & Local SEO v2.7.0
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← All changes | includes/core/class-settings.php +265 -52 2.0.12.7.0 View file →
@@ -58,8 +58,47 @@
58 58 * the feature resolves %separator% from Site Identity (#318).
59 59 *
60 60 * @since 1.29.1
61 61 */
62 + /**
63 + * AI providers this plugin supports.
64 + *
65 + * Single source of truth for the REST enum, the connection test's dispatch
66 + * and sanitize_setting(), so the three cannot disagree about what is legal.
67 + *
68 + * @since 2.2.0
69 + * @var string[]
70 + */
71 + public const SUPPORTED_AI_PROVIDERS = ['openai', 'claude', 'gemini', 'openrouter'];
72 +
73 + /**
74 + * The stored value meaning "the user has not chosen a provider yet".
75 + *
76 + * A fresh install ships with no provider selected: picking one is the
77 + * user's call, and pre-selecting OpenAI made the settings screen open with
78 + * a warning about a missing key for a provider nobody had asked for (#572).
79 + * Every write path accepts this alongside SUPPORTED_AI_PROVIDERS.
80 + *
81 + * @since 2.1.3
82 + */
83 + public const AI_PROVIDER_NONE = '';
84 +
85 + /**
86 + * One-time marker for {@see Settings::retire_seeded_ai_provider()}.
87 + */
88 + private const PROVIDER_MIGRATION_OPTION = 'thinkrank_ai_provider_migration';
89 + private const PROVIDER_MIGRATION_VERSION = '1';
90 +
91 + /**
92 + * Legal values for the `ai_provider` setting, including "not chosen".
93 + *
94 + * @since 2.1.3
95 + * @return string[]
96 + */
97 + public static function selectable_ai_providers(): array {
98 + return array_merge([self::AI_PROVIDER_NONE], self::SUPPORTED_AI_PROVIDERS);
99 + }
100 +
62 101 const DEFAULT_AUTHOR_ARCHIVES_TITLE = '%author_name% %separator% %site_title% %page%';
63 102 const DEFAULT_AUTHOR_ARCHIVES_META_DESC = 'Articles written by %author_name% on %site_title%';
64 103
65 104 /**
@@ -77,8 +116,12 @@
77 116 */
78 117 private const EMPTY_IS_A_VALUE = [
79 118 'author_archives_title',
80 119 'author_archives_meta_desc',
120 + // '' is the "no provider chosen" state, not "fall back to the default".
121 + // Without this, deselecting a provider would be undone by any caller
122 + // that passes its own fallback to get() (#572).
123 + 'ai_provider',
81 124 ];
82 125
83 126 /**
84 127 * Shared singleton instance
@@ -130,9 +173,9 @@
130 173 * @var array
131 174 */
132 175 private array $defaults = [
133 176 // AI Settings
134 - 'ai_provider' => 'openai',
177 + 'ai_provider' => self::AI_PROVIDER_NONE,
135 178 'openai_api_key' => '',
136 179 'openai_model' => self::DEFAULT_OPENAI_MODEL,
137 180 'claude_api_key' => '',
138 181 'claude_model' => self::DEFAULT_CLAUDE_MODEL, // Recommended default (best speed/quality balance)
@@ -188,37 +231,8 @@
188 231 'seo_score_threshold' => 70,
189 232 'enable_meta_generation' => true,
190 233 'enable_schema_markup' => true,
191 234
192 - // Auto AI Optimization (on-publish metadata fill; #248 P1)
193 - 'auto_ai_meta_enabled' => false,
194 - 'auto_ai_meta_post_types' => ['post'],
195 -
196 - // Brand Visibility v2. The brand profile drives question generation
197 - // and mention detection; per-platform keys let this feature query
198 - // several assistants without changing the site-wide AI provider.
199 - 'bv_brand_name' => '',
200 - 'bv_variants' => [],
201 - 'bv_location' => '',
202 - 'bv_category' => '',
203 - 'bv_description' => '',
204 - 'bv_competitors' => [],
205 - 'bv_queries' => [],
206 - 'bv_platforms' => ['chatgpt'],
207 - 'bv_samples' => 1,
208 - 'bv_key_chatgpt' => '',
209 - 'bv_key_gemini' => '',
210 - 'bv_key_claude' => '',
211 - 'bv_key_perplexity' => '',
212 - // Empty = use the platform's default model (see Brand_Visibility_Providers).
213 - 'bv_model_chatgpt' => '',
214 - 'bv_model_gemini' => '',
215 - 'bv_model_claude' => '',
216 - 'bv_model_perplexity' => '',
217 -
218 - // AI Brand Visibility (BYO-key checks; #248 P1)
219 - 'brand_visibility_queries' => [],
220 -
221 235 // Author Archives Settings
222 236 'author_archives_enabled' => true,
223 237 'author_archives_index' => true,
224 238 'author_archives_show_empty' => false,
@@ -235,8 +249,16 @@
235 249 'retry_attempts' => 3,
236 250 // Exposes the standalone Migration admin page for re-running SEO data
237 251 // imports after setup. Hidden by default; opt-in for advanced/support use.
238 252 'enable_migration_tools' => false,
253 + // Exposes ThinkRank's own export / restore. Off by default, like the
254 + // migration toggle above: both are occasional, admin-only tools, and a
255 + // menu item nobody asked for is a menu item in the way. Your data is
256 + // never locked in — the switch is one click away in
257 + // Settings > Import / Export, and turning it on immediately restores
258 + // the screen and the menu item. Off hides the export card and, unless
259 + // migration tools are on, the Import / Export menu item with it.
260 + 'enable_import_export' => false,
239 261
240 262 // Privacy Settings
241 263 'data_retention_days' => 90,
242 264 'anonymize_logs' => true,
@@ -245,16 +267,8 @@
245 267 // Integration Settings
246 268 'google_analytics_id' => '',
247 269 'search_console_property' => '',
248 270
249 - // GA4 Tracking Settings
250 - 'ga4_measurement_id' => '',
251 - 'ga4_auto_inject' => false,
252 - 'ga4_anonymize_ip' => false,
253 - 'ga4_exclude_admin' => false,
254 - 'ga4_tracking_verified' => false,
255 - 'ga4_last_verification' => '',
256 -
257 271 // SEO Analytics Settings
258 272 'seo_analytics_enabled' => false,
259 273 'seo_analytics_setup_completed' => false,
260 274 'seo_analytics_google_analytics_property_id' => '',
@@ -303,11 +317,102 @@
303 317 * @return void
304 318 */
305 319 public function init(): void {
306 320 add_action('admin_init', [$this, 'register_settings']);
321 + // Admin-only: a front-end pageview can never need this migration, and
322 + // the marker is a non-autoloaded option, so hooking it unconditionally
323 + // bought one dedicated query on every request for the life of the
324 + // install (#588).
325 + if (is_admin()) {
326 + add_action('init', [self::class, 'retire_seeded_ai_provider']);
327 + }
307 328 }
308 329
309 330 /**
331 + * Clear the OpenAI selection that older versions seeded on activation.
332 + *
333 + * Changing the default only helps installs created after the change. Every
334 + * site activated before it still carries `ai_provider = 'openai'` written by
335 + * Activator::set_default_options(), and still opens Settings warning about a
336 + * missing key for a provider nobody picked — the whole complaint in #572.
337 + *
338 + * "OpenAI with no OpenAI key" is provably not a user's choice: the settings
339 + * form refuses to save a provider without a key, so the only way to reach
340 + * that state is the old activation seed. A site that genuinely chose OpenAI
341 + * has a key and is left alone, as is any site on another provider.
342 + *
343 + * Version-gated so it runs once and never fights a user who later clears
344 + * their key but keeps the provider selected.
345 + *
346 + * @since 2.1.3
347 + *
348 + * @return void
349 + */
350 + public static function retire_seeded_ai_provider(): void {
351 + if (get_option(self::PROVIDER_MIGRATION_OPTION) === self::PROVIDER_MIGRATION_VERSION) {
352 + self::promote_migration_marker_to_autoload();
353 + return;
354 + }
355 +
356 + // Record first: a site that somehow fails the checks below must not
357 + // re-test on every request for the rest of its life. Autoloaded on
358 + // purpose — it is a short write-once flag that is read on every admin
359 + // request, which is exactly what autoload is for; storing it
360 + // non-autoloaded bought a dedicated query per request instead (#588).
361 + update_option(self::PROVIDER_MIGRATION_OPTION, self::PROVIDER_MIGRATION_VERSION, true);
362 +
363 + if (get_option('thinkrank_ai_provider', null) !== 'openai') {
364 + return;
365 + }
366 +
367 + // Read the stored option directly rather than through Settings::get().
368 + // Only emptiness matters here, and get() adds two things this decision
369 + // must not depend on: a per-instance cache that may already be primed,
370 + // and decryption that can yield '' for a key that is genuinely present.
371 + // The raw option is non-empty whenever a key exists, encrypted or not.
372 + if ('' !== (string) get_option('thinkrank_openai_api_key', '')) {
373 + // A real choice, backed by a key. Leave it.
374 + return;
375 + }
376 +
377 + // Write through the shared instance, not a throwaway one: set() refreshes
378 + // only the cache of the object it is called on, so a private instance
379 + // would leave the registered component serving the old value for the
380 + // rest of this request — including to the admin page it localizes.
381 + self::instance()->set('ai_provider', self::AI_PROVIDER_NONE);
382 + }
383 +
384 + /**
385 + * Move a legacy migration marker into the autoloaded set.
386 + *
387 + * Sites that ran the migration on 2.1.3 wrote the marker with
388 + * `autoload = false`, and the version gate above returns before the write
389 + * that would correct it — so those installs keep paying a dedicated query
390 + * to read a one-byte flag on every admin request, which is the cost #588
391 + * was about. Promote it once.
392 + *
393 + * Free to test: alloptions is loaded from the object cache once per request
394 + * regardless, and an autoloaded marker is in it, so the steady state after
395 + * the promotion is a cache lookup and nothing else. wp_set_option_autoload()
396 + * arrived in WP 6.4 and the plugin supports 6.0, hence the guard.
397 + *
398 + * @since 2.2.0
399 + *
400 + * @return void
401 + */
402 + private static function promote_migration_marker_to_autoload(): void {
403 + if (!function_exists('wp_set_option_autoload') || !function_exists('wp_load_alloptions')) {
404 + return;
405 + }
406 +
407 + if (array_key_exists(self::PROVIDER_MIGRATION_OPTION, wp_load_alloptions())) {
408 + return;
409 + }
410 +
411 + wp_set_option_autoload(self::PROVIDER_MIGRATION_OPTION, true);
412 + }
413 +
414 + /**
310 415 * Register WordPress settings
311 416 *
312 417 * @return void
313 418 */
@@ -318,8 +423,47 @@
318 423 ]);
319 424 }
320 425
321 426 /**
427 + * Warm the option cache for a batch of setting keys in one query.
428 + *
429 + * Every `thinkrank_*` option is autoload=off, so WordPress cannot serve
430 + * them from `alloptions` and each get() below is its own round-trip. A
431 + * caller that reads a known list of keys should prime it first: on a
432 + * ~1ms managed-hosting round-trip, sixteen of those on an anonymous
433 + * pageview is ~16ms spent on values the page may not use (#393).
434 + *
435 + * get() memoizes within the request, so only the first read of each key
436 + * ever reaches the database — this is what collapses those first reads.
437 + * Keys already memoized are left out of the batch.
438 + *
439 + * wp_prime_option_caches() is WP 6.4+; the plugin supports 6.0, so an
440 + * older site simply keeps the previous behaviour.
441 + *
442 + * @since 2.1.0
443 + *
444 + * @param string[] $keys Setting keys, without the `thinkrank_` prefix.
445 + * @return void
446 + */
447 + public function prime(array $keys): void {
448 + if (!function_exists('wp_prime_option_caches')) {
449 + return;
450 + }
451 +
452 + $unread = [];
453 +
454 + foreach ($keys as $key) {
455 + if (!isset($this->cache[$key])) {
456 + $unread[] = 'thinkrank_' . $key;
457 + }
458 + }
459 +
460 + if (!empty($unread)) {
461 + wp_prime_option_caches($unread);
462 + }
463 + }
464 +
465 + /**
322 466 * Get setting value
323 467 *
324 468 * @param string $key Setting key
325 469 * @param mixed $fallback Default value
@@ -397,10 +541,14 @@
397 541 if (!array_key_exists($key, $this->defaults)) {
398 542 return false;
399 543 }
400 544
545 + // Apply the declared per-key sanitizer before anything is stored. This
546 + // is the path essentially every caller takes, so skipping it left the
547 + // whole sanitize_setting() switch unreachable — max_tokens,
548 + // cache_duration and temperature persisted whatever string arrived.
549 + $value = $this->sanitize_setting($key, $value);
401 550
402 -
403 551 // Encrypt if needed
404 552 $encrypted_value = $this->maybe_encrypt($key, $value);
405 553
406 554 // Save to WordPress options or user meta
@@ -481,8 +629,23 @@
481 629 return $result;
482 630 }
483 631
484 632 /**
633 + * Setting keys whose values are encrypted at rest.
634 + *
635 + * Exposed so callers that must never emit a credential — the data exporter
636 + * in particular — can filter against the same list this class encrypts
637 + * with, instead of keeping a copy that silently drifts when a key is added.
638 + *
639 + * @since 2.2.0
640 + *
641 + * @return string[] Setting keys.
642 + */
643 + public function get_encrypted_keys(): array {
644 + return $this->encrypted_keys;
645 + }
646 +
647 + /**
485 648 * Get all settings (optimized with bulk caching)
486 649 *
487 650 * @param int $user_id User ID (0 for global)
488 651 * @return array All settings
@@ -549,8 +712,44 @@
549 712 return $sanitized;
550 713 }
551 714
552 715 /**
716 + * Sanitize a nested array, preserving its shape.
717 + *
718 + * Scalars keep their type (an int threshold stays an int); strings are
719 + * text-sanitized; objects are dropped, since no setting stores one.
720 + *
721 + * @since 2.2.0
722 + * @param array $value Array to sanitize.
723 + * @param int $depth Current recursion depth.
724 + * @return array
725 + */
726 + private function sanitize_array_recursive(array $value, int $depth = 0): array {
727 + // Settings are configuration, not arbitrary payloads; a cap keeps a
728 + // malformed deep structure from recursing without bound.
729 + if ($depth > 10) {
730 + return [];
731 + }
732 +
733 + $sanitized = [];
734 + foreach ($value as $item_key => $item) {
735 + $key = is_string($item_key) ? sanitize_key($item_key) : $item_key;
736 +
737 + if (is_array($item)) {
738 + $sanitized[$key] = $this->sanitize_array_recursive($item, $depth + 1);
739 + } elseif (is_object($item)) {
740 + continue;
741 + } elseif (is_bool($item) || is_int($item) || is_float($item)) {
742 + $sanitized[$key] = $item;
743 + } else {
744 + $sanitized[$key] = sanitize_text_field((string) $item);
745 + }
746 + }
747 +
748 + return $sanitized;
749 + }
750 +
751 + /**
553 752 * Sanitize individual setting
554 753 *
555 754 * @param string $key Setting key
556 755 * @param mixed $value Setting value
@@ -575,10 +774,17 @@
575 774 case 'openrouter_api_key':
576 775 return sanitize_text_field($value);
577 776
578 777 case 'ai_provider':
579 - return sanitize_key($value);
778 + // sanitize_key() maps '' to '', which is AI_PROVIDER_NONE — the
779 + // deliberate "no provider chosen" state, so it must survive here
780 + // rather than being folded back into the default (#572).
781 + $provider = sanitize_key($value);
580 782
783 + return in_array($provider, self::selectable_ai_providers(), true)
784 + ? $provider
785 + : $this->defaults['ai_provider'];
786 +
581 787 case 'openai_model':
582 788 case 'claude_model':
583 789 case 'gemini_model':
584 790 case 'openrouter_model':
@@ -615,8 +821,17 @@
615 821 foreach ($value as $threshold_key => $threshold_value) {
616 822 if (is_array($threshold_value)) {
617 823 continue;
618 824 }
825 + if (is_bool($threshold_value)) {
826 + // Keep booleans as booleans. is_numeric() is false for
827 + // one, so it used to fall to the string arm and a true
828 + // came back as "1" — invisible while this ran only on
829 + // the register_setting() path, now that set() routes
830 + // every write through here it is a type change on save.
831 + $thresholds[sanitize_key($threshold_key)] = $threshold_value;
832 + continue;
833 + }
619 834 $thresholds[sanitize_key($threshold_key)] = is_numeric($threshold_value)
620 835 ? $threshold_value + 0
621 836 : sanitize_text_field((string) $threshold_value);
622 837 }
@@ -628,9 +843,12 @@
628 843 return sanitize_text_field($value);
629 844
630 845 case 'robots_txt_content':
631 846 // Multi-line content — sanitize_text_field() collapses newlines
632 - // and would flatten the whole file onto a single line.
847 + // and would flatten the whole file onto a single line. set()
848 + // routes every write through here, so a caller that chose
849 + // sanitize_textarea_field() itself is otherwise silently
850 + // overridden by the default: arm below (#587).
633 851 return sanitize_textarea_field($value);
634 852
635 853 default:
636 854 if (is_bool($value)) {
@@ -637,19 +855,14 @@
637 855 return (bool) $value;
638 856 } elseif (is_string($value)) {
639 857 return sanitize_text_field($value);
640 858 } elseif (is_array($value)) {
641 - // Flat list/map of scalars; nested members are dropped rather
642 - // than passed to a string sanitizer that would fatal on them.
643 - $sanitized = [];
644 - foreach ($value as $item_key => $item) {
645 - if (is_array($item) || is_object($item)) {
646 - continue;
647 - }
648 - $sanitized[is_string($item_key) ? sanitize_key($item_key) : $item_key] =
649 - sanitize_text_field((string) $item);
650 - }
651 - return $sanitized;
859 + // Recurse rather than drop. Skipping nested members was
860 + // harmless while this ran only on the register_setting()
861 + // path, but set() now routes every write through here, and
862 + // structured settings (lists of maps) were being silently
863 + // emptied on save.
864 + return $this->sanitize_array_recursive($value);
652 865 }
653 866 return $value;
654 867 }
655 868 }