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Changelog

Release history for CQI Referrer Attribution.

Changelog

Release history for CQI Referrer Attribution. Pro is a separate add-on plugin, licensed independently; it does not replace or unlock anything in the free plugin.

Free plugin - v1.10.0

  • 9-channel session classification (AI tools, organic search, social media, email, paid search, paid display, campaign, referral, direct)
  • AI traffic detection as its own channel
  • Full visit path tracking: every page in a visit recorded, not just the entry page, with a First Touch indicator, all correctly credited to the original channel
  • Session Journey: expand any multi-page session in the Reports view to see every page visited in order, with time between steps
  • Dashboard redesign: two donut charts (by channel and by source) plus a sessions-per-day bar chart with dashed average line, live session counter updating every 30 seconds
  • AI Referrer Taxonomy - 19 built-in platforms across 16 AI tools, fully editable: add, edit, activate, deactivate, delete, export
  • Sessions log with date, channel, and source filters, unlimited rows and days, configurable retention from 7 to 365 days
  • CSV export of the sessions log
  • Channel exclusion across the dashboard and sessions report
  • Path exclusions and bot filtering
  • One-click sample data seeder in Settings for exploring the product before real traffic arrives
  • Consent gate integration with CQI Consent plugin
  • Honors Global Privacy Control (Sec-GPC) signals automatically, independent of any consent plugin
  • Recognizes marketing consent withheld through Complianz or CookieYes when CQI Consent is not installed
  • Self-referral exclusion with configurable domain list
  • Public PHP API - cqip_attr_get_channel() and cqip_attr_get_source()
  • GDPR personal data export and erasure hooks
  • Debug logging and delete-all-data-on-uninstall option

Pro add-on - v1.15.4

  • Tags: rule-based auto-tagging (UTM, URL pattern, date range), manual per-session tagging, retroactive bulk-apply, tag-aware filtering and CSV export
  • Trends: 7/30/90-day period selector, daily sessions chart by channel, sessions-vs-conversions chart, conversion rate by channel chart, channel drill-down to source domains, Direct/Unknown exclusion toggle on every chart
  • Conversion tracking: WooCommerce orders (with real order value and currency), Contact Form 7 submissions, approved comments, and a custom hook for any other event, with a filtered, paginated conversions log and CSV export
  • Insights: Attribution Coverage with period-over-period change, conversions by channel and by individual AI platform, real Attributed Revenue by currency, your own clearly-labeled Estimated Conversion Values, a 0-100 Attribution Health Score, and the How People Convert panel showing pages viewed before converting and landing page versus converting page by channel
  • Content Attribution: top converting pages, assisted pages that appear in sessions before a conversion, and a channel by content matrix
  • Webhooks: push session and conversion events to any URL as a JSON payload, with separate on/off toggles for each event type
  • Branded short links: create /go/{slug} links on your own domain, campaign parameters appended server-side at redirect, per-link click counts
  • AIR Engine: Attribution Intelligence Report. Evaluates all unclassified Direct sessions against 20 deterministic pattern rules. Each finding includes a classification, a confidence score (0-100) derived from four measurable signals, a fact base of the raw database counts, and a recommended action. Findings grouped into five categories. Attribution Health Score at the top of the report. Mark as reviewed. Copy prompt for plain-English summary in any LLM.
  • Branded report: opens in browser, saved as PDF via the browser's own print dialog
  • White-label branding in the WordPress admin
  • License activation, automatic updates, and account management
  • Email support, 1 business day response target

CQIP (Content Quality and Intelligence Policy) is a methodology standard, not a technology stack. It defines how structured web content is authored and published. The implementation varies by platform; the standard does not.