Creator Assistant Planner

Creator Assistant Planner connects to your site's Google Search Console and Google Analytics data (via Creator Assistant Hub's shared Google connection) to find search queries with real demand but no dedicated content on your site, groups them into topic clusters, and ranks them by priority so you always know what to write next. Requires Creator Assistant Hub, active and connected to Google.

1.2.0

• New: with Creator Assistant Hub 1.4.0 or higher, the titles and summaries of the content suggestions are an OpenAI feature of the Hub ("Article ideas (title and summary)"), so Creator Assistant Hub Pro can choose their model. The summaries of the plan items keep the model of the Hub's summaries, to stay comparable with those of the posts, and Hub Pro says so.
• Changed: with Creator Assistant Hub 1.4.0 or higher, the titles and summaries of the content suggestions are written with the Hub's "fast" model profile (gpt-6-luna with low reasoning effort) instead of gpt-4.1-nano, which OpenAI has deprecated. With an older Hub nothing changes.
• Fix: when Search Console does not answer for one of the pages of queries, the page is requested again (twice, after a short pause) and, if it still fails, the run stops instead of going on with the queries read so far. The Content suggestions tab says that Search Console did not answer.
• Fix: a run stopped because Search Console did not answer keeps the Search Console suggestions still awaiting approval. They were deleted before reading Search Console, so the list stayed empty until the next run that worked.

1.1.0

• Changed: the pageviews of the articles are read from Google Analytics in batches of 200, each saved as soon as it is read, and the next run resumes where the previous one stopped. A quota error (429) no longer throws away the batches already read, so the Pageviews column fills up on large sites too.
• Changed: the pageviews event runs every hour, to make use of GA4's hourly quotas, and a new complete round does not start before a day has passed since the last one. Sites that scheduled the daily event are moved to the hourly one automatically.
• Changed: each cell of the Pageviews column shows the analysis window its number was counted over (for example "1,234 (last 90 days)"), and the column title is just "Pageviews": after a change of the analysis window, articles can have been counted over different windows. Articles read before this version show the number alone.
• Changed: the first column of the content plan shows the ID of each item instead of a row number that kept counting across pages.
• Fix: the Pageviews column no longer describes its numbers with the current analysis window when they were counted over a different one.

1.0.0

• New: the Planner page comes right after the Hub page in the Creator Assistant menu, through Creator Assistant Hub's creator_assistant_hub_menu_positions filter.
• New: Weekly content-gap detection pipeline — reads Search Console queries, filters semantic gaps against existing content, clusters them via the shared clustering infrastructure, validates candidate title+summary pairs for novelty, and scores them by search demand and nearby-content performance.
• New: Own "Planner" admin page under Creator Assistant, with a "Search Console" section (minimum impressions, analysis window) and a separate "Google properties" section with two selects for the Search Console/GA4 properties to use, populated from the connected Google account with a manual refresh link.
• New: "Similarity matching" section on the Settings tab — minimum/maximum similarity thresholds the pipeline uses to accept a candidate and to match supporting articles, configurable instead of fixed, with a live cross-check that keeps the two values from forming an invalid range.
• New: "Generate now" button and last-run status on the Planner admin page.
• New: Each suggestion in the Content suggestions tab shows the generated summary of what the article would cover, alongside its title and a narrative explaining why it was suggested, built from the underlying search-demand metrics.
• New: Planner now describes itself in the list of services shown on Hub's "Google Connection" settings screen, so site owners see why connecting is useful before they do it.
• Fix: the Search Console/GA4 property selects stayed disabled after connecting (or reconnecting) a Google account until the 12-hour property-list cache expired on its own. Planner now clears that cache as soon as Hub's Google connection changes, via the new creator_assistant_hub_google_connected/creator_assistant_hub_google_disconnected hooks.
• Fix: the GA4 property list only ever read the first page of accountSummaries.list, silently dropping any properties past it for a Google account with enough GA4 accounts to need a second page. It now follows nextPageToken across as many requests as the account needs.
• Fix: the "Last run" timestamp on the Planner admin page ignored the site's configured timezone, showing the raw UTC time instead.
• New: the "Content suggestions" tab now shows, after a run, how many Search Console queries were read and how many turned out to be a content gap; once the asynchronous clustering step replies, also how many clusters it produced, how many became a new suggestion, how many existing posts were checked for page views, and when the reply arrived — with an explicit "clustering in progress" message shown in between, so a run that is still waiting is never mistaken for a stuck one.
• Fix: a run could stay "clustering in progress" for good, and refuse every new "Generate now", when the clustering job died (for example out of memory) after being accepted. The plugin now keeps the id of the job, asks the clustering service whether it is still alive while it waits (every few minutes, and while the page is open), and ends the wait with an explanation when the job is gone and no result arrived; a result that turns up later is still used. A wait never lasts more than 24 hours, and clusters that were delivered but not processed (the processing died halfway) are processed again.
• Change: suggestions are now items of an editorial plan, with a source (Search Console, or created with Agent through Planner Pro), a type (new article or update of an existing one) and a status (incomplete, proposed, approved, published). "Dismiss" and "Mark as done" are replaced by Approve, Back to proposed, Mark as published and Delete; Delete and "Mark as published" ask for confirmation in the browser.
• Change: every pipeline run replaces only the Search Console suggestions still awaiting approval; approved items and items created with Agent are kept. "Generate now" says so, and asks for confirmation when there are suggestions it would replace. The debug-only "Clear report data" tool follows the same rule and also keeps approved items and items created with Agent.
• New: plan items are indexed in their own Qdrant collection (creator_assistant_<id>_planner_plan_item, with the per-site identifier Creator Assistant Hub generates), and a Search Console candidate is discarded when it duplicates an item already in the plan, not only an existing article. The "Rejected candidates" section shows which of the two blocked it. Items left unindexed by an OpenAI or Qdrant failure are retried by an hourly background job, and the collection is rebuilt when Hub's embedding model changes.
• New: candidate summaries follow the same 3-5 sentence format as Hub's post summaries, so the similarity check compares texts of the same kind.
• New: the items created with Agent have their own "Editorial plan" tab on the Planner page, with its own status filter and paging. The "Content suggestions" tab lists only the Search Console suggestions: the items created with Agent have no score, so in a single list they came after every scored suggestion, many pages away.
• New: a search box in the "Content suggestions" and "Editorial plan" tabs, to find a plan item by a word in its title, description or summary. It is a plain text search, so it works without OpenAI or Qdrant and also finds the items not indexed yet.
• New: creator_assistant_planner_plan_item_status_changed action ($id, $old_status, $new_status), fired after every successful status change of a plan item.
• New: creator_assistant_planner_plan_item_deleted action ($id, $item), fired after a plan item is deleted, with the item as it was before deletion.
• New: Similarity_Search::search_checked() for add-ons: like search(), but it returns a WP_Error (status 503) when the embedding or the vector database does not answer, so an empty list is not mistaken for "nothing similar" when no comparison was made. Limit: a failure of only one of the two collections while the Qdrant cluster answers is not detected, and that collection's results are simply missing.
• New: Similarity_Search::summarize_for_search() for add-ons: summarizes a free text the way posts are (one OpenAI call, cached for an identical text), so it can be passed to search_checked() and compared with summaries of the same kind; it returns a WP_Error (status 503) when the summary cannot be generated.