No Cookie Analytics – By Arfa

Changelog

1.0.9

• Redesigned the admin dashboard and reports with a refreshed blue accent color and plain CSS only (no
  external framework, so there’s no risk of conflicting with other plugins’ styles). Charts (visitors trend,
  page views trend, country donut) now animate on load/refresh with styled tooltips.
• Redesigned KPI stat tiles with period-over-period percentage change badges, comparing each metric to the
  immediately preceding period of equal length (e.g. this week vs. last week).
• Added a “Page Views Overview” chart alongside Visitors Overview, showing total tracked page views over the
  selected range (as opposed to unique visitors).
• Added a 404 Report (Analytics → 404 Report) listing missing pages visitors hit, with hit counts and
  last-seen times, to help find broken links to fix or redirect.
• Added a per-post Analytics meta box in the editor sidebar (Posts, Pages, and other public post types),
  showing total views, unique visitors, a 30-day change badge, a 14-day views sparkline, and the post’s top
  referrers.
• Added UTM campaign tracking (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign) with a new Campaigns Report
  (Analytics → Campaigns Report) showing visits and visitors grouped by source, medium, and campaign.
• Dashboard grid now uses responsive layout classes instead of inline styles, so cards stack properly on
  narrow screens instead of being squeezed. Report tables now scroll horizontally on small screens instead
  of overflowing the page. Settings screen now uses the same card layout and typography as the rest of the
  plugin.
• KPI stat tiles and the realtime counter now animate (“count up”) when values change instead of jumping
  instantly. Added a subtle live-activity pulse indicator to the Realtime card and dashboard widget.
• Fixed the WordPress Dashboard “Quick View” widget never loading its stylesheet (it only loaded on the
  plugin’s own admin screens), so the widget now renders styled instead of as plain unstyled text.
• Fixed the bounce-rate “quality” tag not updating color after a live dashboard refresh, and a color-palette
  mismatch between the initial server-rendered country legend and the JS-rendered legend after a refresh.
• Moved front-end tracking from the init hook to template_redirect so conditional tags like is_404()
  and get_queried_object_id() are reliable at tracking time — the main query hasn’t run yet at init. This
  also improves post_id tracking accuracy used by the new per-post meta box.
• Added is_404, post_id (indexed), and utm_source/utm_medium/utm_campaign (indexed) columns to the
  hits table to support the new reports and meta box.

1.0.8

• Dashboard: redesigned info tooltips to use Dashicons with cleaner markup and tooltip text via CSS ::after.
• Dashboard: Visitors Overview chart now shows hourly data when the “Last 24 hours” filter is selected.
• Fixed hourly chart data accuracy by bucketing visits in the WordPress site timezone.
• Improved country detection with more server geo headers, better proxy IP resolution, and optional
  external lookup via ipapi.co with ipwho.is fallback (removed browser-language country guessing).
• Fixed recent activity timestamps by storing hits in site time and formatting relative times correctly.
• Settings: added role-based tracking exclusion with a custom searchable multiselect when “Skip tracking
  for logged-in users” is enabled.
• Admin notices (including warnings) now render before the analytics layout wrapper to avoid layout issues.
• Tracking now records page paths with query strings (for example /blog?123456) as separate entries in reports.

1.0.7

• Removed UTF-8 byte order marks (BOM) from PHP sources so activation no longer sends accidental
  output to the browser.
• Uninstall: reliable table drop, clear all related and legacy cron hooks, and remove cached
  geo lookup transients.
• Deactivation: clear legacy cleanup cron hook names in addition to the canonical event.

1.0.6

• Renamed plugin to “No Cookie Analytics – By Arfa”; text domain and translation template are
  no-cookie-analytics-by-arfa (Domain Path: /languages).
• Main bootstrap file is no-cookie-analytics-by-arfa.php; directory slug no-cookie-analytics-by-arfa.
• PHP class and constant prefix NCABA_* (e.g. NCABA_VERSION, NCABA_Activator); runtime
  identifiers use lowercase ncaba_* / ncaba- (database table {prefix}ncaba_hits, options,
  hooks, AJAX, and asset handles). Legacy cfaba_*, cfba_*, and mistaken NCABA_* option keys
  or table names migrate automatically on upgrade.
• Plugin URI points to a reliable HTTPS profile page; localized admin strings and dashboard JS
  escaping improvements.
• Bumped tested-up-to header for current WordPress.

1.0.5

• Previous branding and slug iteration; see older releases for detail.

1.0.4

• Raised minimum WordPress version to 6.2 for safe %i identifier placeholders in
  $wpdb->prepare().
• Hardened admin and cron SQL (prepared statements, esc_like() for LIKE patterns).
• Replaced parse_url() with wp_parse_url(); removed redundant fclose() on export stream.
• Settings import notices use per-user transients; validated upload temp files with
  is_uploaded_file().
• Added readme short description; direct-access guard on settings view template.

1.0.3

• Bundled Chart.js and Poppins assets locally (removed CDN dependency).
• Added explicit admin consent toggle for external geolocation lookup.
• Updated privacy disclosure and reviewer-oriented readme details.

1.0.2

• Improved admin UI and tooltip behavior.

1.0.1

• Added richer visitor identity and dashboard/report improvements.

1.0.0

• Initial release.