SiteSuperCharger

Changelog

5.5.33

Release date: Apr 30th, 2026

• SEO improvements.
• Stability fixes.

5.5.32

Release date: Apr 29th, 2026

• Internal cleanup.
• Stability fixes.
• Interface improvements.

5.5.31

Release date: Apr 28th, 2026

• Performance improvements.
• Stability fixes.
• Bugfixes.

5.5.30

Release date: Apr 27th, 2026

• Stability fixes.
• Security improvements.
• Bugfixes.
• Admin improvements.

5.5.29

Release date: Apr 26th, 2026

• Self-enabling auto-updates: SiteSuperCharger now auto-updates itself from wp.org by default. Previously, WordPress required admins to manually opt-in to plugin auto-update per-plugin in the admin Plugins screen, and on most managed sites that opt-in was never flipped — so sites stagnated on whatever version they last received. Starting with this release, the plugin tells WordPress “yes, auto-update me” via the standard auto_update_plugin filter. Site admins who genuinely need to pin a specific version can disable this by defining SSC_DISABLE_AUTOUPDATE in wp-config.php. Other plugins on the site are unaffected — they still follow whatever the site admin has configured.

5.5.28

Release date: Apr 25th, 2026

• Plugin Settings now shows the Site GUID and the SSC app URL on the Overview tab, with click-to-select formatting — no more hunting through wp_options to find the GUID for a support ticket.
• New “Sync now” button on the Overview tab: pulls the latest config from the SSC app immediately instead of waiting for the next 5-minute cycle. Useful right after changing settings in the SSC app.
• Auto-purge on save: when a page or post is published or updated, that single URL is purged from the Cloudflare cache automatically so the next visitor sees fresh content. Throttled to one purge per URL per 30 seconds so block-editor save-revise loops don’t spam Cloudflare. Goes through the new credential-pass-through proxy when proxy mode is enabled, so no CF token has to live on the WordPress site for this to work.
• New token-mismatch warning: if the SSC app starts rejecting this site’s API token (because it was rotated in the SSC app and not updated here), a loud red “API token mismatch” card appears on the Overview tab so admins can fix it before settings sync, command polling, and health reporting all silently break.
• Sitemap status card now shows “SEO plugin detected” before “HTML sitemap display” — the upstream context appears first.
• Security tab AI Crawler Policy is now a radio-button list with a one-paragraph plain-English description per option (instead of a tiny dropdown). Choosing the right policy no longer requires reading the docs. New “View live robots.txt” link opens the rendered file in a new tab so admins can verify the policy took effect.
• Lead-conversion tracking for Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, WPForms, and Formidable Forms: successful submissions now fire a GA4 generate_lead event automatically. Closes the form-conversion gap that previously required MonsterInsights Pro.
• Cloudflare connection card on the Security tab: paste a Cloudflare API token to connect a site whose domain isn’t already linked in the SSC app. The token is forwarded directly to the SSC server, encrypted at rest, and stored there — it is never written to this WordPress site.
• New security policy applied site-wide: any non-public credential the SSC app sends down (e.g. Cloudflare API token) is now stripped from the local cache before storage. The plugin asks the SSC server to perform credential-bound actions (cache purge, etc.) instead of holding the key itself.
• New “Export URLs” card on the Sitemap tab: download a CSV of every published URL on the site (pages, posts, and any public custom post types). Columns include post type, ID, title, status, last-modified date, and whether the URL is SSC-managed. Replaces the separate “Export All URLs” plugin.
• Plugin audit rules: Edit Author Slug now flagged as redundant for security (SiteSuperCharger already blocks ?author=N and the /wp-json/wp/v2/users REST endpoint); Malcure Malware Shield documented as a complement to SiteSuperCharger’s drift-hash + spam quarantine; Export All URLs flagged as redundant once the new built-in export ships.
• Save buttons across the v6 admin UI now use a cloud-upload icon (matching the standard rolled out across SiteSuperCharger this week).
• Manual “Purge this page from Cloudflare” button on the post and page edit screens (Publish meta box). Complements the auto-purge on save for cases where you want to clear the edge cache without re-saving.
• Daily health-grade-drop email digest: when a site’s overall SiteSuperCharger health grade drops a letter (A → B, B → C, etc.), the admin gets an email with the failing checks. No spam on recoveries or same-grade ticks. Disable per-site by setting the wp_option ssc_health_alert_enabled to 0.
• New “Recent activity” card on the Overview tab: surfaces the last 5 audit-log events inline so admins see what SiteSuperCharger has been doing without leaving the page.
• Maintenance buttons redesigned: each maintenance action (Rebuild content, Check duplicates, Clear cache – all pages, Clear cache – SSC only, Check for plugin update) now appears as a label-and-description row with a real button on the right, instead of full-card “panels” that didn’t read as clickable buttons.
• Health tab: new blue “How to reach a perfect score” guidance bar (only shown when grade < A) listing the most common gaps in plain language — Trust Badges, Claim Responses, Tracking IDs, AI Crawler Policy, Redirects.
• Redirects tab: inline “Add redirect” form replacing the old “click a link to classic admin” flow. Fields for from URL, to URL, HTTP code, and an optional note. Reloads on save to show the new entry.
• Tracking tab: replaced the placeholder “coming soon” panel with a real vertical list of every tracking ID this plugin emits (Facebook Pixel, GA4, GTM, Google Ads, Consent Mode v2). Each row shows whether it’s configured and the actual value where applicable. Custom head/footer scripts (when set) are previewed in a code block so admins can see exactly what’s being injected.
• Schema tab: new “Current schema values” card showing how many trust badges and ClaimReview entries are configured (with the first one’s name as a sanity check), plus a one-click button to open Google’s Rich Results test pre-filled with this site’s home URL.

• Slug-collision fix on landing-page sync: when SiteSuperCharger creates or updates a landing page and another post is already holding the desired URL slug (admin-created page, leftover from a prior install, or a stale draft), WordPress used to silently append -2 to the new page — producing pages like /shingle-roof-installation-2/ and breaking the canonical URL. SiteSuperCharger now detects the collision and reclaims the slug: stale SiteSuperCharger pages with mismatched IDs are moved to Trash (recoverable), admin-created pages get their slug renamed to <slug>-admin-<ID> so the human’s content is preserved but the canonical SiteSuperCharger URL is freed. Audit log entries are written for each reclaim. Closes the kangaroof ~12% landing-page-404 issue.
  Release date: Apr 24th, 2026

• Daily file-integrity check: SiteSuperCharger now records a fingerprint of every plugin/theme/core file once a day and reports any unexplained changes back to the admin app. Catches tampering and silent file corruption that ClamAV alone wouldn’t notice.

• Bundles every fix and feature from 5.5.22 through 5.5.26 (cumulative release).

5.5.26

Release date: Apr 24th, 2026

• WooCommerce purchase tracking in Google Analytics 4: product views, add-to-cart, checkout-started, and completed purchases all flow into GA4 automatically — no separate plugin needed. Includes a duplicate-event guard so refreshing the thank-you page never inflates revenue numbers.

5.5.25

Release date: Apr 24th, 2026

• New [ssc-howto] shortcode for service landing pages: produces a step-by-step instruction list with the search-engine schema markup that Google uses for HowTo rich results.
• Redundant-plugin nudge: when SiteSuperCharger now covers something a separately installed plugin used to do (for example MonsterInsights, Insert Headers and Footers, the Cloudflare official plugin), the admin sees a one-time, dismissible notice on activation pointing them to the SiteSuperCharger setting that replaces it.

5.5.24

Release date: Apr 24th, 2026

• Spam blog-post quarantine: backlink-spam posts (casino / pharma / payday-loan patterns) are auto-moved to Trash and an email is sent to the admin. Nothing is ever permanently deleted — every action is recoverable from Trash.

5.5.23

Release date: Apr 24th, 2026

• Google Consent Mode v2: tracking pixels (Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Google Ads) now start in a privacy-respecting “denied” state and only upgrade to full tracking when the visitor accepts cookies through your consent banner. Compatible with CookieYes, Complianz, Cookiebot, and any banner that uses the standard gtag('consent','update') signal — or a simple ssc_consent=granted cookie for banners that can’t.
• Google Ads remarketing / conversion tag: enter a Google Ads ID in tracking settings and the AW- conversion tag is injected automatically.

5.5.22

Release date: Apr 23rd, 2026

• Closed two account-enumeration leaks: the /wp-json/wp/v2/users REST endpoint and the /wp-json/wp/v2/settings endpoint are now hidden from anonymous visitors. Logged-in editors and admins still get normal access. Companion to the existing ?author=N block — together they stop the most common username-harvesting probes used against WordPress.
• Admin improvements.

5.5.21

Release date: Apr 23rd, 2026

• Plugins tab: inline Delete button on orphan plugin folder rows. Server revalidates the target against a fresh orphan scan before deleting — arbitrary paths are rejected. Requires delete_plugins capability and per-action nonce. Every attempt is written to the audit log (plugin.orphan_deleted / plugin.orphan_delete_failed / plugin.orphan_delete_rejected).
• Plugin audit rules expanded per plugin-scoping DECISIONS.md:
  • DANGER (REMOVE-WITH-WARNING): Object Cache Pro, WP Rocket, NitroPack, WP Super Cache — all conflict with SSC’s Cloudflare edge caching. WP phpMyAdmin Extension — direct DB access security risk.
  • WARN (REMOVE): Jetpack, BlogVault, WPMU DEV Dashboard — unnecessary on SSC-managed sites.
  • INFO (ALREADY-COVERED — redundant with SSC): Disable Comments, Activity Log, Cloudflare (official).

5.5.20

Release date: Apr 23rd, 2026

• Plugins tab: severity-tiered audit alerts (danger/warning/info) flag dangerous, conflicting, duplicate, and orphaned plugin installs with a summary banner + per-row chips.
• Orphan plugin directory scanner surfaces .disabled, .old, .bak, .pre-*, and .orig leftover folders under wp-content/plugins.
• Plugin audit results piggyback on the daily heartbeat so the app sees fleet-wide audit state.
• Plugins tab “Updated” column shows month + 2-digit year (e.g. Apr '25) for clarity across release years.
• Sitemap tab: merged XML sitemap + provider rows into a single row with the full URL, removed non-functional toggle button.

5.5.19

Release date: Apr 23rd, 2026

• og:video tags for blog posts with embedded YouTube/Vimeo (og:video, og:video:type, og:video:width/height).
• preconnect hints for Google Maps on landing pages (maps.googleapis.com + maps.gstatic.com).
• preconnect hints for YouTube/Vimeo on blog posts with detected video embeds.

5.5.18

Release date: Apr 23rd, 2026

• Twitter/X Card meta tags on all landing pages and blog posts (twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image).
• Blog post Open Graph completeness: og:type=article, og:url, og:locale, og:site_name, article:published_time, article:modified_time, article:author, article:section, og:image:width/height.
• Landing page og:image:width + og:image:height via WP attachment lookup for richer social previews.
• AI Crawler Policy settings card in v6 Security tab – editable with live AJAX save and robots.txt sync.

5.5.17

Release date: Apr 22nd, 2026

• Hourly Site Health report: each site automatically sends its plugin / WordPress / PHP version, content totals, Cloudflare status, and any plugin conflicts back to the admin app — fleet-wide health visible at a glance, no manual logins required.
• Expected-content cross-check: the plugin asks the admin app how many pages, blog posts, and FAQs the site is supposed to have, so missing or extra content is caught early.
• Remote command channel: a small 5-minute cron picks up admin-initiated commands (purge cache, refresh settings, push health, run an incremental rebuild) without anyone having to log into the site.
• Richer Article rich results: featured images on blog posts are now described to Google with their actual width and height — improves how posts appear in search results and Google Discover.

5.5.16

Release date: Apr 22nd, 2026

• Speed tab: per-site toggle to turn the built-in HTML minifier on or off. Useful when Cloudflare’s own minify is also active and the two conflict.

5.5.15

Release date: Apr 22nd, 2026

• Critical fix for the HTML minifier: very large pages could trigger a regex backtrack that produced a blank response (white screen). The minifier now falls back to the unminified page in that situation instead of returning nothing.
• HTML minifier default changed to OFF on auto-update so existing sites are never silently regressed; admins can opt back in from the Speed tab.

5.5.14

Release date: Apr 22nd, 2026

• Cloudflare cache purges are now scoped strictly to the www. and apex domain — staging or unrelated subdomains on the same Cloudflare zone are no longer touched.

5.5.13

Release date: Apr 22nd, 2026

• Internal bugfixes.

5.5.12

Release date: Apr 22nd, 2026

• Native HTML sitemap: the [sitemap] shortcode now ships with SiteSuperCharger and the plugin auto-creates a /sitemap/ page on activation. Removes the need for the separate “WP Sitemap Page” plugin.

5.5.11

Release date: Apr 22nd, 2026

• Internal bugfixes.

5.5.10

Release date: Apr 22nd, 2026

• Internal bugfix.

5.5.9

Release date: Apr 21st, 2026

• Security tightening on internal admin endpoints — capability and nonce checks reviewed across the plugin’s settings save handlers.

5.5.8

Release date: Apr 20th, 2026

• ShortPixel sync: the plugin now pulls the centrally-managed ShortPixel optimization profile + AI image-alt-text context from the admin app and reports back a drift hash, so any local override is visible fleet-wide.

5.5.7

Release date: Apr 20th, 2026

• Various internal improvements.

5.5.6

Release date: Apr 20th, 2026

• Performance improvements to the front-end output (lower per-page render overhead).

5.5.5

Release date: Apr 19th, 2026

• Security hardening on admin-side input handling.

5.5.4

Release date: Apr 19th, 2026

• Admin UI polish on the plugin settings screen.

5.5.3

Release date: Apr 19th, 2026

• Various internal improvements.

5.5.2

Release date: Apr 19th, 2026

• Admin UI polish.

5.5.1

Release date: Apr 19th, 2026

• Admin UI polish.

5.5.0

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Important security fix: arbitrary HTML / JavaScript can no longer be pushed into a site’s <head> or footer through the admin-app channel. Custom head/footer scripts are still editable in the local plugin settings (gated on manage_options + unfiltered_html capabilities), but the remote-config channel is now restricted to allow-listed IDs (Facebook Pixel, GA4 measurement ID, GTM container ID) that are validated against a strict pattern at injection time. Closes a stored-XSS class of bugs that could have affected every connected site simultaneously if the admin channel had been compromised.

5.4.41

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Security improvements on plugin admin endpoints.

5.4.40

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Internal bugfix.

5.4.39

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Various internal improvements.

5.4.38

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Various internal improvements.

5.4.37

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Customer review schema (Review / AggregateRating) emitted for service landing pages — improves star-rating eligibility in Google search results.

5.4.36

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Various internal improvements.

5.4.35

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Internal bugfix.

5.4.34

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Various internal improvements.

5.4.33

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Admin-side tooling improvements.

5.4.32

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Admin-side tooling improvements.

5.4.31

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Security hardening on admin endpoints.

5.4.30

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Internal code cleanup.

5.4.29

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Block ?author=N username enumeration: anonymous probes that try to harvest usernames by walking author IDs are now redirected to the home page and logged for forensic review. (Companion REST-side block landed in 5.5.22.)
• Removed the legacy config.xml URL leak from public-facing markup.

5.4.28

Release date: Apr 18th, 2026

• Performance improvements on the plugin’s request-handling path.

5.4.27

Release date: Apr 17th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.4.26

Release date: Apr 17th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.4.25

Release date: Apr 17th, 2026

• Performance improvements.

5.4.24

Release date: Apr 17th, 2026

• UI polish.

5.4.23

Release date: Apr 17th, 2026

• UI polish.

5.4.22

Release date: Apr 17th, 2026

• UI polish.

5.4.21

Release date: Apr 17th, 2026

• Admin improvements.

5.4.20

Release date: Apr 17th, 2026

• Stability fixes.

5.4.19

Release date: Apr 17th, 2026

• Bugfixes.

5.4.18

Release date: Apr 17th, 2026

• Admin tools.

5.4.17

Release date: Apr 17th, 2026

• Centralized tracking-pixel injection: Facebook Pixel, Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, and optional custom head/footer HTML are now managed by SiteSuperCharger directly. Removes the need for separate “Insert Headers and Footers” or per-pixel plugins.

5.4.16

Release date: Apr 17th, 2026

• Admin improvements.

5.4.15

Release date: Apr 16th, 2026

• UI polish.

5.4.14

Release date: Apr 16th, 2026

• New [ssc-reviews] shortcode: displays Google reviews pulled by the admin app, on any page or post.

5.4.13

Release date: Apr 16th, 2026

• Per-site redirect management: 301/302/307/308 redirects defined in the admin app are now consumed by the plugin and applied at template_redirect. Removes the need for the separate “Quick 301 Redirects” plugin.

5.4.12

Release date: Apr 16th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.4.11

Release date: Apr 16th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.4.10

Release date: Apr 16th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.4.9

Release date: Apr 16th, 2026

• Bugfix.

5.4.8

Release date: Apr 15th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.4.7

Release date: Apr 15th, 2026

• Performance.

5.4.6

Release date: Apr 15th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.4.5

Release date: Apr 15th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.4.4

Release date: Apr 15th, 2026

• Bugfix.

5.4.3

Release date: Apr 15th, 2026

• Bugfix.

5.4.2

Release date: Apr 15th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.4.1

Release date: Apr 15th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.4.0

Release date: Apr 14th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.3.15

Release date: Apr 14th, 2026

• Bugfixes.

5.3.14

Release date: Apr 14th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.3.13

Release date: Apr 14th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.3.12

Release date: Apr 14th, 2026

• Bugfix.

5.3.11

Release date: Apr 13th, 2026

• Improvements.

5.3.10

Release date: Nov 13th, 2025

• Improvements.

5.3.9

Release date: Aug 24th, 2025

• Bugfix.

5.3.8

Release date: Dec 9th, 2024

• Bugfix.

5.3.6

Release date: Dec 6th, 2024

• Bugfix.

5.3.6

Release date: Nov 11th, 2024

• Updated for PHP 8.2.10 and WP 6.6.1.

5.3.3

Release date: May 22th, 2024

• Improvement.

5.3.2

Release date: Apr 09th, 2024

• Bugfix.

5.3.1

Release date: Mar 1st, 2024

• Improvement.

5.3.0

Release date: Feb 28th, 2024

• Improvement.

5.2.8

Release date: Mar 21th, 2023

• Bugfix.

5.2.7

Release date: Feb 08th, 2023

• Bugfix.

5.2.6

Release date: Feb 08th, 2023

• Improvement.

5.2.5

Release date: Feb 08th, 2023

• Improvement.

5.2.4

Release date: Feb 07th, 2023

• Bugfix.

5.2.3

Release date: Apr 19th, 2022

• Bugfix.

5.2.2

Release date: Apr 11th, 2022

• Bugfix.

5.2.1

Release date: Apr 5th, 2022

• Security fixes.

5.2.0

Release date: Mar 25th, 2022

• Security fix.

5.1.10

Release date: Mar 14th, 2022

• Security fix.

5.1.9

Release date: May 17th, 2021

• Bugfix.

5.1.8

Release date: Mar 25th, 2021

• Bugfix.

5.1.7

Release date: Mar 24th, 2021

• Bugfix.

5.1.4

Release date: Sep 29th, 2020

• Improvement.

5.1.3

Release date: Jul 22th, 2020

• Bugfix.

5.1.2

Release date: Jul 22th, 2020

• Bugfix.

5.1.1

Release date: Jul 21th, 2020

• Bugfix.

5.1.0

Release date: Jul 8th, 2020

• Improvement.

5.0.3

Release date: Jun 26th, 2020

• Improvement.

5.0.2

Release date: Jun 10th, 2020

• Bugfix.

5.0.1

Release date: Jun 9th, 2020

• Improvement.

4.8.4

Release date: Mar 19th, 2020

• Improvement.

4.8.2

Release date: Nov 18th, 2019

• Improvement.

4.8.1

Release date: Nov 14th, 2019

• Improvement.

4.8.0

Release date: Sept 26th, 2019

• Improvement.

4.7.9

Release date: Jun 5th, 2018

• Improvement.

4.6.9

Release date: Apr 10th, 2018

• Improvement.

4.6.8

Release date: Feb 9th, 2018

• Improvement.

4.6.7

Release date: Feb 7th, 2018

• Bugfix.

4.6.4

Release date: Jan 31st, 2018

• Bugfix.

4.6.3

Release date: Jan 25th, 2018

• Improvement.

4.6.2

Release date: Dec 27th, 2017

• Improvement.

4.6.1

Release date: Dec 26th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.6.0

Release date: Dec 26th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.5.9

Release date: Nov 24th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.5.8

Release date: Nov 10th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.5.7

Release date: Nov 9th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.5.6

Release date: Nov 9th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.5.5

Release date: Nov 8th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.5.4

Release date: Nov 6th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.5.3

Release date: Oct 18th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.5.2

Release date: Oct 12th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.5.0

Release date: Oct 7th, 2017

• Improvement.

4.4.4

Release date: Oct 6th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.4.3

Release date: Oct 5th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.4.2

Release date: Oct 4th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.4.1

Release date: Jul 18th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.4.0

Release date: Jun 29th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.3.7

Release date: Feb 24th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.3.6

Release date: Feb 23th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.3.5

Release date: Feb 23th, 2017

• Bugfix.

4.3.4

Release date: Sept 12th, 2016

• Bugfix.

4.3.3

Release date: Aug 23th, 2016

• Bugfix.

4.3.2

Release date: Jul 21th, 2016

• Improvement.

4.3.0

Release date: Jul 18th, 2016

• Improvement.

4.2.5

Release date: Jul 7th, 2016

• Bugfix.

4.2.4

Release date: Jul 7th, 2016

• Bugfix.

4.2.3

Release date: Jun 28th, 2016

• Bugfix.

4.2.2

Release date: Jun 28th, 2016

• Improvement.

4.2.1

Release date: Jun 24th, 2016

• Bugfix.

4.2.0

Release date: Jun 23th, 2016

• Improvement.

4.1.4

Release date: Apr 13th, 2016

• Bugfix.

4.1.3

Release date: Apr 4th, 2016

• Bugfix.

4.1.2

Release date: Mar 23th, 2016

• Improvement.

4.1.1

Release date: Mar 22th, 2016

• Bugfix.

4.1.0

Release date: Mar 18th, 2016

• Improvement.

4.0.11

Release date: Jan 8th, 2016

• Bugfix.