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ThinkRank AI SEO – AI SEO Plugin for WordPress: Schema, XML Sitemaps, Meta Tags, Search Console & Local SEO / 2.9.0
ThinkRank AI SEO – AI SEO Plugin for WordPress: Schema, XML Sitemaps, Meta Tags, Search Console & Local SEO v2.9.0
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← All changes | includes/core/class-activator.php +213 -15 1.28.02.9.0 View file →
@@ -29,19 +29,35 @@
29 29 */
30 30 class Activator {
31 31
32 32 /**
33 + * Option the uninstaller sets to record a deliberate removal.
34 + *
35 + * Pro's Free_Plugin_Installer skips its silent auto-install while this is
36 + * set, so activating again — the user asking for the plugin back — has to
37 + * clear it. Keep in sync with uninstall.php.
38 + */
39 + public const UNINSTALLED_OPTION = 'thinkrank_uninstalled';
40 +
41 + /**
33 42 * Plugin activation tasks
34 - *
43 + *
35 44 * @return void
36 45 * @throws \Exception If activation fails
37 46 */
38 47 public function activate(): void {
48 + delete_option(self::UNINSTALLED_OPTION);
49 +
39 50 $this->check_requirements();
40 51 $this->create_database_tables();
52 + // Both must precede set_default_options(): they read
53 + // `thinkrank_version`, which that method creates.
54 + $this->retire_sitemap_legacy_fallback();
55 + $this->seed_feed_defaults();
41 56 $this->set_default_options();
42 57 $this->setup_indexnow_key();
43 58 $this->schedule_cron_jobs();
59 + $this->restore_webroot_artifacts();
44 60 $this->set_activation_flag();
45 61
46 62 // Grant the admin capabilities here rather than waiting for the `init`
47 63 // hook Role_Manager registers, so the menu is reachable on the very
@@ -103,10 +119,10 @@
103 119 * @throws \Exception If requirements not met
104 120 */
105 121 private function check_requirements(): void {
106 122 // PHP version check
107 - if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '8.0', '<')) {
108 - throw new \Exception('ThinkRank requires PHP 8.0 or higher');
123 + if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '7.4', '<')) {
124 + throw new \Exception('ThinkRank requires PHP 7.4 or higher');
109 125 }
110 126
111 127 // WordPress version check
112 128 if (version_compare(get_bloginfo('version'), '6.0', '<')) {
@@ -120,15 +136,34 @@
120 136 throw new \Exception(sprintf("Required PHP extension '%s' is not loaded", esc_html($extension)));
121 137 }
122 138 }
123 139
124 - // Check if we can write to WordPress root directory (for robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemaps)
125 - if (!wp_is_writable(ABSPATH)) {
126 - // Log warning but don't block activation — some hosts restrict ABSPATH writes
127 - // and file-writing features will gracefully degrade via WP_Filesystem checks
140 + // Check if we can write to WordPress root directory (for robots.txt, llms.txt,
141 + // the Instant Indexing key file). Never blocks activation — some hosts restrict
142 + // ABSPATH writes by design.
143 + //
144 + // The result is recorded rather than only logged. It used to reach error_log()
145 + // and only under WP_DEBUG, so on a production site nobody was ever told, and the
146 + // features that need it failed later with messages describing the symptom rather
147 + // than the cause (#753). Webroot_Writable_Notice re-evaluates the condition live —
148 + // permissions change without a reactivation — and this value only distinguishes
149 + // "never worked here" from "worked until the host changed something".
150 + $writable = wp_is_writable(ABSPATH);
151 +
152 + update_option(
153 + \ThinkRank\Admin\Webroot_Writable_Notice::OPT_ACTIVATION_STATE,
154 + $writable ? 'writable' : 'not-writable',
155 + false
156 + );
157 +
158 + if (!$writable) {
159 + // A fresh activation on a broken root should warn even if a previous
160 + // install's dismissal is still on record.
161 + delete_option(\ThinkRank\Admin\Webroot_Writable_Notice::OPT_DISMISSED);
162 +
128 163 if ( defined( 'WP_DEBUG' ) && WP_DEBUG ) {
129 164 // phpcs:ignore WordPress.PHP.DevelopmentFunctions.error_log_error_log
130 - error_log('ThinkRank: WordPress root directory is not writable. Some features (robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemaps) may not work.');
165 + error_log('ThinkRank: WordPress root directory is not writable. robots.txt, llms.txt and the Instant Indexing key file cannot be published; the sitemap falls back to dynamic delivery.');
131 166 }
132 167 }
133 168 }
134 169
@@ -153,12 +188,11 @@
153 188 throw new \Exception($error_message);
154 189 }
155 190
156 191 // Add performance indexes for Phase 2 optimization
157 - $index_results = $schema->add_performance_indexes();
158 - if (!$index_results) {
159 - // Performance indexes could not be created - activation continues
160 - }
192 + // Best effort: activation continues if the performance indexes
193 + // cannot be created.
194 + $schema->add_performance_indexes();
161 195
162 196 // Database tables created successfully
163 197
164 198 } catch (\Exception $e) {
@@ -168,8 +202,100 @@
168 202
169 203
170 204
171 205 /**
206 + * On a brand-new install, close the pre-2.1.1 sitemap ownership fallback
207 + * before it can ever open.
208 + *
209 + * {@see thinkrank_webroot_sitemap_is_ours()} keeps one narrow escape hatch:
210 + * a sitemap written before 2.1.1 with `enable_styling` off carries neither
211 + * the marker nor our XSL href, so it can only be recognised by the name the
212 + * stored settings derive. That fallback is gated on this install never
213 + * having written a marked sitemap — but "never written one" describes two
214 + * completely different sites:
215 + *
216 + * - a pre-2.1.1 install that has not regenerated since upgrading, which
217 + * is exactly what the fallback exists to recover; and
218 + * - a fresh install that simply has not generated yet, which cannot have
219 + * a legacy file of ours on disk at all.
220 + *
221 + * On the second, the fallback has nothing to recover and can only delete
222 + * somebody else's sitemap from one of the canonical names — #515 again, in
223 + * a site that never had the problem the fallback addresses. It is not a
224 + * narrow window either: `regenerate_sitemap_from_settings()` returns early
225 + * while the master `enabled` flag is off, so a site with sitemaps disabled
226 + * and styling saved off never records a marked write, and stays exposed for
227 + * as long as it stays in that configuration.
228 + *
229 + * Recording the marker here on a fresh install separates the two cases. An
230 + * upgrade does not reach this code — WordPress does not re-run the
231 + * activation hook on update — so a genuine pre-2.1.1 site keeps the
232 + * fallback until its first marked write, exactly as before.
233 + *
234 + * `thinkrank_version` is the signal: set_default_options() adds it only
235 + * when absent and never updates it, so it is missing on the very first
236 + * activation and present on every one after.
237 + *
238 + * @since 2.1.1
239 + *
240 + * @return void
241 + */
242 + private function retire_sitemap_legacy_fallback(): void {
243 + if (get_option('thinkrank_version') !== false) {
244 + return;
245 + }
246 +
247 + require_once THINKRANK_PLUGIN_DIR . 'includes/cleanup-webroot.php';
248 +
249 + add_option(THINKRANK_SITEMAP_MARKED_WRITE_OPTION, '1', '', false);
250 + }
251 +
252 + /**
253 + * Give a brand-new install the feed posture the competitors ship with.
254 + *
255 + * The feed controls (#635) default to off in
256 + * {@see Site_Identity_Manager::get_default_settings()}, and they have to:
257 + * two of the three change what a site already publishes. Signing every
258 + * entry adds a line to what existing subscribers receive, and noindexing
259 + * feeds withdraws URLs a site may have had indexed for years — on a podcast
260 + * site, whose feed has to stay indexable, silently at that. Neither belongs
261 + * in a plugin update.
262 + *
263 + * A first install has no subscribers and no indexed feed, so there is
264 + * nothing to change and the protective defaults are simply the right
265 + * starting point — which is what The SEO Framework, Yoast and Rank Math all
266 + * ship. Seeding them here rather than in the defaults is what separates the
267 + * two cases.
268 + *
269 + * Excerpt-only is left off even here: it changes what readers get rather
270 + * than what scrapers can take, and that is the site owner's call.
271 + *
272 + * Same signal and same reasoning as {@see self::retire_sitemap_legacy_fallback()}:
273 + * `thinkrank_version` is absent only on the very first activation, and an
274 + * upgrade does not re-run the activation hook at all.
275 + *
276 + * @since 2.7.0
277 + *
278 + * @return void
279 + */
280 + private function seed_feed_defaults(): void {
281 + if (get_option('thinkrank_version') !== false) {
282 + return;
283 + }
284 +
285 + $manager = new \ThinkRank\SEO\Site_Identity_Manager();
286 +
287 + $manager->save_settings(
288 + 'site',
289 + null,
290 + [
291 + 'feed_source_link' => true,
292 + 'feed_noindex' => true,
293 + ]
294 + );
295 + }
296 +
297 + /**
172 298 * Set default plugin options
173 299 *
174 300 * @return void
175 301 */
@@ -176,11 +302,11 @@
176 302 private function set_default_options(): void {
177 303 $default_options = [
178 304 'thinkrank_version' => THINKRANK_VERSION,
179 305
180 - 'thinkrank_ai_provider' => 'openai',
306 + 'thinkrank_ai_provider' => \ThinkRank\Core\Settings::AI_PROVIDER_NONE,
181 307 'thinkrank_cache_duration' => 3600, // 1 hour
182 - 'thinkrank_max_requests_per_minute' => 10,
308 + 'thinkrank_max_requests_per_minute' => 0,
183 309 'thinkrank_enable_logging' => true,
184 310 'thinkrank_auto_optimize' => false,
185 311 'thinkrank_seo_score_threshold' => 70,
186 312 ];
@@ -193,10 +319,82 @@
193 319 }
194 320
195 321
196 322 /**
323 + * Republish the web-root artifacts deactivation took away.
324 + *
325 + * Deactivation removes the published sitemap, robots.txt and llms.txt so an
326 + * inactive ThinkRank stops shadowing whatever the user switched to (#510).
327 + * That is only safe if switching the plugin back on puts them back, which is
328 + * what this does.
329 + *
330 + * Restores strictly what {@see Deactivator::REPUBLISH_OPTION} recorded as
331 + * having been removed — never "everything the settings would allow", which
332 + * on a fresh install would publish files the site never had.
333 + *
334 + * The sitemap goes through schedule_regeneration() rather than being built
335 + * inline: a full rebuild on a large site is far too slow to sit inside an
336 + * activation request, and the debounced hook already respects the master
337 + * `enabled` flag. robots.txt and llms.txt are single small writes, so they
338 + * happen here.
339 + *
340 + * @since 2.1.0
341 + *
342 + * @return void
343 + */
344 + private function restore_webroot_artifacts(): void {
345 + $republish = get_option(Deactivator::REPUBLISH_OPTION, null);
346 +
347 + if ($republish === null) {
348 + // No recorded deactivation — a first install, or an activation that
349 + // already consumed the record.
350 + return;
351 + }
352 +
353 + // Consume it first. A restore that fatals must not re-run on every
354 + // subsequent activation, and each entry below is independently guarded.
355 + delete_option(Deactivator::REPUBLISH_OPTION);
356 +
357 + if (!is_array($republish)) {
358 + return;
359 + }
360 +
361 + try {
362 + if (in_array('sitemap', $republish, true) && class_exists('ThinkRank\\SEO\\Sitemap_Generator')) {
363 + // Read-only instance: the hook-registering one would bind a
364 + // second set of content-change listeners to this request.
365 + (new \ThinkRank\SEO\Sitemap_Generator(false))->schedule_regeneration();
366 + }
367 +
368 + if (in_array('robots', $republish, true) && class_exists('ThinkRank\\SEO\\Site_Identity_Manager')) {
369 + (new \ThinkRank\SEO\Site_Identity_Manager())->sync_robots_txt_file();
370 + }
371 +
372 + if (in_array('llms', $republish, true) && class_exists('ThinkRank\\SEO\\LLMs_Txt_Manager')) {
373 + $llms = new \ThinkRank\SEO\LLMs_Txt_Manager();
374 + $content = $llms->get_published_content();
375 +
376 + // write_llms_txt_to_file() enforces the enabled toggle and the
377 + // delivery mode itself, so an empty document is the only case
378 + // worth short-circuiting here.
379 + if ($content !== '') {
380 + $llms->write_llms_txt_to_file($content);
381 + }
382 + }
383 + } catch (\Throwable $e) {
384 + // A failed republish must not block activation — the user would be
385 + // left unable to switch the plugin on at all. The artifacts rebuild
386 + // on the next content or settings save.
387 + if (defined('WP_DEBUG') && WP_DEBUG) {
388 + // phpcs:ignore WordPress.PHP.DevelopmentFunctions.error_log_error_log
389 + error_log('ThinkRank: failed to restore web-root artifacts: ' . $e->getMessage());
390 + }
391 + }
392 + }
393 +
394 + /**
197 395 * Schedule cron jobs
198 - *
396 + *
199 397 * @return void
200 398 */
201 399 private function schedule_cron_jobs(): void {
202 400