2026.10.14.002 — Published image maintenance without legacy social requeueing

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2026-10-14 · CPH Assistant Access

CPH Assistant Access repairs featured images on published WordPress articles while suppressing an older thumbnail callback that otherwise requeues those articles for social sharing.

What changed

• Retain the published-image repair workflow introduced in 2026.10.14.001.
• During a published-image repair, suppress only the known legacy social callback for the target article thumbnail change. Continue unrelated metadata hooks and restore the callback after the operation.
• Validate callback registrations before changing an image and fail without writing if an unexpected registration cannot be guarded safely.
• Preserve existing social queue and share records, article status, dates and content. Draft behavior and existing publishing policies remain unchanged.

Verification

• All 846 PHP regression assertions, settings checks, PHP syntax checks and eight packaging tests passed.
• All 91 image-workflow assertions passed using the default test harness and the native WordPress 6.6 and 7.1.3 hook dispatchers. Other WordPress services in these tests use fixtures.
• An independent review approved the final guard and reran the 91 workflow checks on all three hook engines.
• The earlier live test verified the image association change and restoration, but exposed two legacy queue metadata writes. Those test-created records were removed conditionally; the earlier result is retained as a failed preservation check.

Rollout

Pending controlled rollout. Public notes precede distribution. A live preservation check and site installation receipts will be appended after verification.

Updating

• This cumulative maintenance overlay replaces only the Assistant Access entry point and image workflow files. It includes the earlier published-image repair.
• Verify the baseline, retain exact file backups and deploy the two files together. Other helpers, publisher code and protected settings remain in place.
• Use the dedicated attach-images route with a current article revision and an intentional client request ID. Upload replacement media without a published parent before attaching it.
• Developed by Matthew X Murphy, MatthewxMurphy.com; software portfolio at BuiltNotBegged.com. Release owner: CreatorPublishingHub.com.

Scope and limitations

• This fix does not create artwork or complete undersized-image and missing-image backfills.
• Scheduled articles and general article editing remain outside this focused repair.
• Only the identified legacy callback is suppressed. Other custom integrations require their own verification; a queue entry is not evidence of external delivery.
• External WordPress writers can still race with an assistant operation. Featured-image and companion-image writes are not one database transaction. Reconcile uncertain results using the retained operation receipt.
• Image changes affect the evidence revision. Earlier reviews remain history, rather than approval of replacement artwork.

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