2026.10.11.001 — Reviewed bulk publishing

All release notes

2026-10-11 · CPH Assistant Access, CPH Native Reviewed Publishing, CPH Investigations

Adds a native WordPress workflow for publishing selected, previously reviewed stories on Love Lies Abroad and Creator Newsdesk. Removes the owner-disabled legal approval requirement on those two sites.

What changed

• Adds Publish reviewed stories to the WordPress Posts bulk actions with exact-selection preview and explicit confirmation.
• Adds Preview all drafts so an editor can prepare an exact backlog selection without visiting every Posts list page; publication still requires separate confirmation.
• Processes up to 1,000 selected draft or pending stories in bounded batches with user-bound receipts, revision checks, and replay protection.
• Disables the redundant legal and legacy case-field publication lock on the two owner-designated sites while preserving historical research and review records.
• Keeps assistant API source, editor, confidence, media and financial checks; native publishing uses the logged-in editor’s explicit review acknowledgement.

Verification

• 203 native workflow assertions, 411 legacy policy assertions, and 821 Assistant Access checks plus its settings suite passed.
• 92 real WordPress/MySQL integration assertions passed, including 327 synthetic articles published exactly once in 66 bounded requests, nonce/user binding, competing locks and retained content and research metadata.
• Installed runtime hashes and versions were verified on both sites. Live bulk menus, full-backlog previews, and the responsive review screen were inspected. Article status fingerprints remained unchanged during installation.

Rollout

Installed and verified on Love Lies Abroad and Creator Newsdesk. The bulk action and full-draft previews were checked under the existing editor login. No articles were published during installation or live verification.

Updating

• This is a targeted three-component update. The core CPH publisher version and unrelated sites remain unchanged.
• Use Posts → Publish reviewed stories → Preview all drafts for a full selection, or choose Publish reviewed stories from the Posts bulk menu for selected articles. Review the exact list and confirm publication separately.
• Keep the review tab open while requests run. An uncertain outcome needs inspection before another attempt.

Scope and limitations

• This release does not publish existing stories automatically or record legal approval.
• Empty articles, required missing media, explicit image-redo flags, financial controls and pagination constraints can still block a selected article.
• Ordinary WordPress publication hooks can run after a user confirms publication. No separate social dispatch is added.

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