2026.10.14.003 — Published featured images and current share previews

All release notes

2026-10-14 · CPH Assistant Access

CPH Assistant Access can maintain a published article featured image and refresh that article’s Yoast social-image record without saving or republishing the article.

What changed

• Include the published-image repair and scoped legacy social-hook guard from the earlier maintenance overlays.
• After changing a published landscape attachment, refresh only the affected existing Yoast post indexable through its verified post builder and check saved image fields.
• Preserve explicit Yoast Open Graph and Twitter image overrides. Sites without Yoast retain the image maintenance workflow.
• Check supported SEO services and target identity before writing. Surface partial success and reconciliation needs if the image changed but SEO verification failed.
• Keep the article publication state, dates, text, taxonomy and social queue records intact. Preserve unrelated metadata callbacks and draft behavior.

Verification

• All 879 PHP regression assertions, settings checks, syntax checks and eight packaging tests passed.
• All 124 workflow assertions passed using the default harness and the native WordPress 6.6 and 7.1.3 hook dispatchers. Other WordPress services use fixtures.
• Independent review covered the exact-post SEO refresh, absent-plugin and error handling, explicit image overrides, and preservation of the earlier social-hook guard.
• The preceding live check verified displayed-image changes and restoration with all article/social state preserved, but exposed a stale Yoast social-image record. The installed Yoast 28.6 and 28.7 builder, social-image helper, indexable helper and repository sources were checked and matched for the narrow integration.

Rollout

Pending controlled rollout. These notes precede distribution. Installation and a live displayed-image/Open Graph preservation check will be recorded in a dated appended receipt.

Updating

• This cumulative overlay replaces only the Assistant Access entry point and image workflow files. Preserve every other helper, publisher component and existing setting.
• Verify baseline hashes and retain targeted backups before installing. Verify runtime and authenticated API behavior afterward.
• Use the dedicated attach-images route with the current article revision and a persisted intentional client request ID. Keep newly uploaded media parentless until attachment.
• Reconcile partial or uncertain operations using the saved receipt before another intentional write. A saved image association and a verified SEO refresh are separate results.
• Developed by Matthew X Murphy, MatthewxMurphy.com; software portfolio at BuiltNotBegged.com. Release owner: CreatorPublishingHub.com.

Scope and limitations

• This maintenance release does not create artwork or complete existing undersized-image or missing-image backfills.
• Scheduled articles and unrestricted article editing remain outside this repair.
• The optional SEO integration depends on compatible Yoast services and a usable existing target indexable. Unsupported active integration states return an explicit error rather than claiming a successful refresh.
• A site’s updated Open Graph output does not prove that an external social network has refreshed its own cached preview.
• External WordPress writers can race an operation. Image associations and SEO index persistence are not one database transaction; clients must reconcile partial results.
• Image changes affect the evidence revision. Earlier review records remain historical and do not approve replacement artwork.

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