Globe Boss Detect

Changelog

2.1.3

• Internal: ghost-metadata cleanup queries each meta key individually with a single bound placeholder. No functional change.

2.1.2

• Internal: ghost-metadata cleanup now targets exact meta keys via a bound IN() list rather than LIKE patterns. Resolves the remaining static-analysis notices and makes the cleanup query faster. No functional change.

2.1.1

• Internal: rewrote the ghost-metadata database queries to use fully bound placeholders, resolving static-analysis warnings. No functional change.

2.1.0

• Added a “Clean ghost metadata” tool in Scan Manager. When leftover SEO metadata from a plugin you no longer use is found, one click removes it. The metadata of your active SEO plugin is never touched, and a database backup of everything removed is saved first so the action can be reversed.

2.0.2

• Renamed internal function, constant, option, hook, and handle prefixes to a longer, more unique prefix to prevent naming collisions with other plugins.

2.0.1

• Fixed a serious bug where every post after the first in a scan was recorded with the first post’s title and description, producing large numbers of false duplicate and missing reports. Metadata is now read per post directly from the active SEO plugin’s stored values (Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SEOPress, The SEO Framework), with a WordPress-core title fallback when no plugin value exists.

2.0.0

• Major change: the scanner now reads the SEO title and meta description each page actually renders, instead of reading meta keys for specific SEO plugins. It works with any SEO plugin — Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, The SEO Framework, SEOPress, or any other — and with none. This removes the false “missing” reports on sites whose SEO plugin was not previously recognised.
• No HTTP requests are made during scanning; the page head is rendered in-process, so there is no loopback load on the server.
• Added a Maintenance section to Scan Manager: cancel a running scan, clear scans stuck for over 15 minutes, and clear all stored scan data to start fresh.
• Scans stuck in “running” are now automatically failed after 15 minutes.

1.3.0

• Added SEOPress support — titles and descriptions from SEOPress are now read correctly, fixing false “missing description” reports on sites using it
• Added a full issue detail view — the Details button now opens a page listing every affected post with edit and view links
• The “+N more” affected-pages link now opens the same detail view instead of being static text
• Posts with an empty title now display as “(no title)” with their ID instead of a bare post number

1.2.3

• Updated the Pro overview screen with current pricing and working purchase links
• Corrected the Pro feature list to distinguish features that ship at launch from those still in development
• Removed an outdated note about AI usage billing that no longer matched how the plugin works

1.2.2

• Table names are no longer passed through local variables into SQL, resolving static analysis warnings on the page title duplicate query and the uninstall routine

1.2.1

• Page title duplicate detection now joins to the scan results table instead of building a dynamic IN clause, so the query uses a single prepared placeholder
• Scan post counting no longer uses post__not_in, improving performance on large sites
• AI Client calls are routed through a single guarded factory so the plugin stays compatible with WordPress 6.0 while using the 7.0 AI Client when present
• Tightened input sanitisation on the bulk dismiss action
• Page title duplicates now skip noindex pages, matching the other detection types

1.2.0

• AI features now use the WordPress AI Client built into WordPress 7.0 instead of contacting an AI provider directly
• Removed all API key storage and handling — credentials are managed by WordPress under Settings > Connectors
• Moved all admin JavaScript out of templates and into a properly enqueued script file
• Hardened input sanitisation on the bulk issue action, the CSV export request, and AJAX nonce verification
• Added an “Exclude Specific Posts” setting and a gbd_excluded_post_ids filter for pages where duplication is intentional
• Attachment post types are no longer offered as scan targets
• Scan progress now accounts for excluded posts, so it reaches 100 percent correctly
• Removed unreachable uninstall code that shadowed uninstall.php

1.1.1

• Fixed false positive: WordPress posts page and static front page now excluded from scans
• Fixed false positive: pages with no custom SEO description set no longer grouped as duplicate descriptions
• Fixed false positive: native WordPress excerpt/content fallback no longer treated as a meta description for duplicate detection purposes

1.1.0

• Added cross-plugin conflict detection — flags posts where Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, and The SEO Framework all have metadata set simultaneously
• Added ghost metadata detection — finds leftover SEO data from plugins that have been switched out or deactivated
• Added duplicate page title detection — catches identical native WordPress post titles across multiple posts
• Dashboard now shows Plugin Conflicts & Ghost Data count and Duplicate Page Titles count
• Issues table now includes Cross-Plugin Conflict, Ghost Metadata, and Duplicate Page Title issue types

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Exact duplicate title and description detection
• Missing metadata detection
• Yoast SEO, Rank Math, AIOSEO, The SEO Framework adapters
• Chunked background scanning
• Issues table with filters and bulk dismiss
• CSV export
• Pro upgrade path (AI features require Pro licence)