ARN Smart Visitor Intent

Changelog

2.1.0

• New: Growth Intelligence page with data health and completed-period comparison for Google Analytics and Search Console (via Site Kit): source health, accessible charts with data tables, sustained traffic drop alerts, verified findings, declining search CTR pages, and largest page, channel, and device changes.
• New: Visioix Recommendations block and [arnvisiox_recommendations] shortcode with optional, consent-based personalization stored only in the visitor’s browser (30 days, no AI on the frontend).
• New: AI features use the bundled ARN Free AI module and its Settings > ARN Free AI screen, shared by ARN Free plugins: choose OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, xAI Grok, Mistral, an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or WordPress AI (WordPress 7.0 or later); token prices, monthly limits and usage history in one place.
• New: Settings > Limits & Proxy. The number of responses per visitor network every 10 minutes is adjustable (default 20).
• New: daily limits for notification emails and AI analyses of responses (default 200 each). Responses are always saved; once a limit is reached, no more emails are sent or no more responses are analysed until the next day. Responses that were not analysed show the AI status „Skipped“.
• New: visitor activity events are limited to 300 requests per visitor network every 10 minutes; further events are ignored without an error.
• New: sites behind a proxy or CDN can read the visitor address from X-Forwarded-For, X-Real-IP, CF-Connecting-IP or True-Client-IP, only for requests from the trusted proxy addresses entered in the settings. The default remains the direct connection.
• Changed: the provider, API key, model, endpoint and token price fields moved from Visitor Intent > Settings to Settings > ARN Free AI. Existing settings, the encrypted key and the AI usage history move automatically the first time an administrator opens a wp-admin page after the update; the old Visioix AI usage table is removed after the import is verified.
• Changed: Visitor Intelligence > Cost & Usage and the AI usage summary read the usage recorded by ARN Free AI (imported history included); the website diagnosis is now counted too.
• Changed: busy provider answers (HTTP 429 and 5xx) of the website diagnosis are retried automatically a limited number of times; background response analysis keeps its own queue retries.
• Security: visitor responses are visible only to administrators; submissions use single-use tickets, size limits, and per-IP and per-session quotas; the visit reason must be one of the configured options.
• Improved: visitor events are sent in batches and daily counters are stored atomically; events and counters are kept for two years.
• Improved: spreadsheet-safe CSV export (PHP 8.4 compatible) and a PHP 8.4 deprecation fix.
• Improved: upgrade and maintenance tasks no longer run on every dashboard request.
• Improved: deactivation removes all scheduled tasks; uninstall always removes scheduled tasks, and with „delete data on uninstall“ it removes all plugin tables, options, and transients on every site of a network; sites where ARN Smart Visioix is active are left untouched.
• Fix: on sites that use the SQLite database, such as WordPress Playground and WordPress Studio, the abandonment section of Visitor Intelligence shows its numbers and close reasons instead of a database error. Sites on MySQL or MariaDB show the same results as before.
• Removed: the Visioix „Test Connection“ button; use „Test connection“ under Settings > ARN Free AI.
• Note: ARN Smart Visioix (Pro) uses its own AI connection; after switching to Pro, enter your AI provider API key there again.

2.0.3

• Declared and reviewed compatibility with WordPress 7.1.
• Batched large response exports and deletion operations to reduce memory pressure.
• Preserved CSV formula-injection protection for visitor-controlled values.
• Standardized product discovery links for the ARN Smart plugin family.

2.0.2

• Removed legacy admin declarations now owned by the shared UI measurement system.
• Removed duplicate CSS declarations and unused legacy admin component selectors without changing rendered styles.

2.0.1

• Added the shared Visioix admin UI measurement system used by both Free and Pro.
• Standardized page rhythm, cards, compact blocks, rows, headings, tabs, controls, tables, and responsive spacing.

2.0.0

• Added Visitor Intelligence with data-driven insights for visitor intent, contact behavior, trigger performance, pages, time periods, and conversion funnels.
• Added Website Intelligence integration through Google Site Kit, supporting Google Analytics and Search Console data.
• Added 7, 30, and 90-day analysis periods with current-versus-previous period comparisons.
• Added website performance monitoring for users, sessions, views, engagement rate, bounce rate, clicks, impressions, CTR, and average search position.
• Added traffic change detection to identify increasing, decreasing, and stable website metrics.
• Added Search Highlights for top queries, pages, countries, devices, and acquisition channels.
• Added Product Highlights for fastest-growing, most-visited, highest-engagement, and highest-exit pages or products.
• Added AI-powered Website Highlights with supporting evidence, confidence levels, and deterministic fallback analysis.
• Added Response Intelligence for response summaries, topic detection, priority assessment, follow-up recommendations, and response status.
• Added visitor analysis dashboards for overview, summary, trends, segments, intent, contact behavior, triggers, time analysis, and funnel performance.
• Added AI Heatmaps for intent, contact, trigger performance, and funnel drop-off analysis.
• Added period-based insight snapshots and historical analysis records.
• Added duplicate snapshot prevention and analysis engine version tracking.
• Added AI Queue management with retry support and new-data detection.
• Added Cost & Usage reporting for input tokens, output tokens, provider usage, model usage, daily consumption, monthly consumption, and estimated AI costs.
• Added configurable AI providers and models using the website owner’s own API credentials.
• Added AI privacy controls for managing which visitor and website data may be included in AI requests.
• Added confidence controls and limited-data warnings to prevent strong conclusions from insufficient data.
• Added clear identification of AI-generated and Visioix Engine-generated insights.
• Added deterministic fallback processing for unavailable providers, timeouts, malformed responses, and invalid AI output.
• Added Privacy & Consent controls with editable labels, consent text, policy-page selection, opening method, and required-consent enforcement.
• Added consent status to response records and CSV exports.
• Added SMTP configuration with test-email support, delivery logging, external SMTP detection, and WordPress mail compatibility.
• Added configurable contact actions for phone, email, and WhatsApp.
• Added a floating WhatsApp contact option.
• Added display rules for homepage, sitewide, selected pages, excluded pages, post types, visitor login state, device type, and visit status.
• Added advanced display triggers including delay, scroll depth, exit intent, page views, time on site, shortcode, and JavaScript activation.
• Added automatic and manual data-cleanup controls.
• Added expanded CSV export support for visitor responses, intelligence data, consent records, and analytics fields.
• Improved the administration interface with reorganized Visitor Analytics and Visitor Intelligence sections.
• Improved analytics navigation, period selection, dashboard cards, status indicators, evidence presentation, and responsive administration layouts.
• Improved Google Site Kit connection handling and invalid-report recovery.
• Improved compatibility with Elementor and other WordPress administration styles.
• Improved data validation, sanitization, escaping, capability checks, nonce verification, and error handling across administration and submission workflows.
• Improved AI credential handling with encrypted storage, masked fields, protected updates, and automatic migration of previously stored credentials.
• Improved SMTP credential security with authenticated AES-256-GCM encryption and automatic migration of existing passwords.
• Prevented API keys and SMTP passwords from being exposed in administration-page HTML.
• Prevented credentials from being stored as plain text when secure encryption is unavailable.
• Added CSV formula-injection protection for visitor-controlled export values.
• Fixed response metadata being processed before a valid response record was created.
• Fixed missing metadata backfill markers on newly submitted responses.
• Fixed an undefined diagnosis variable in deterministic Website Intelligence results.
• Fixed evidence summaries not being included in fallback diagnosis output.
• Replaced an unused phone-data AI permission with a LinkedIn-data permission matching the available response fields.
• Removed unused administration callbacks, redundant header parameters, and unnecessary action calculations.
• Removed obsolete and unreachable code while preserving WordPress hooks, dynamic callbacks, and extension points.
• Improved overall codebase stability, maintainability, packaging integrity, and upgrade compatibility.

1.0.0

• First stable release.
• Added visitor intent capture and optional contact fields.
• Added display rules for pages, post types, devices, login state, and visitor type.
• Added instant, delay, scroll, exit-intent, page-view, time-on-site, shortcode, and JavaScript triggers.
• Added analytics, intent distribution, weekly and monthly statistics, and CSV export.
• Added response retention, cleanup, and display-cache controls.
• Added privacy consent, policy page selection, and required-consent validation.
• Added WordPress Mail, external SMTP plugin, and internal SMTP delivery methods.
• Added SMTP testing and common SMTP plugin detection.
• Added floating Contact Widget with Call, Email, and WhatsApp actions.
• Added contact-action analytics.