M7tawa Impact Monitor

Description

M7tawa Impact Monitor is a lightweight, event-based diagnostic tool for WordPress administrators and developers.

Version 2.8.3 remains read-only for site and extension data. It does not delete tables, remove options, disable assets, or change WordPress settings.

Version 2 adds detailed before/after evidence instead of summary counts alone.

Features:

• Create a manual baseline of the current site.
• Record measurable changes after extension installation, activation, deactivation, updates, and successful deletion.
• Show a per-extension Lifecycle Timeline with event filtering, version transitions, and first/last monitored dates.
• Show exact names of added and removed database tables, cron hooks, post types, taxonomies, and REST routes.
• Index option metadata without copying option values: option name, autoload state, and byte size only.
• Skip detailed option indexing automatically on sites with more than 20,000 options to keep scans conservative; autoload total remains available.
• Show added, removed, and size/autoload-changed options after a version 2 baseline.
• Show role and capability changes.
• Show version transitions for monitored updates when available.
• Provide an impact profile for every installed extension, while clearly marking extensions that only exist in the baseline.
• Preserve v1.x history during upgrade.
• Require explicit confirmation before clearing the monitor’s own history.
• Load no frontend CSS or JavaScript.
• Keep only the latest 100 monitoring events.
• Calculate a transparent 0–100 Impact Score from attributable observed evidence only.
• Show Low, Moderate, High, or Very High technical impact without labeling extensions as good, bad, safe, or unsafe.
• Break the score into Database, Runtime, WordPress Integration, and Footprint Breadth components.
• Label partial scores when activation was not observed and leave baseline-only extensions unscored.
• Show Impact Score before/after observed events and version updates.
• Distinguish Current Impact Score from Peak Impact Score and show signed Event Impact Delta.
• Keep a compact observed score history with Rising, Falling, Stable, or New history trend labels.
• Show the top score contributors and conservative Attention Flags that explain what may deserve manual review.
• Show a dedicated before/after score comparison for monitored updates and highlight notable score shifts of 10 points or more.
• Show Observed or Partial confidence directly beside scored extension profiles.
• Filter and sort extension profiles by impact level or score.
• Use cron recurrence metadata when available so high-frequency schedules contribute more than infrequent schedules.
• Never take automatic action based on a score.
• After a successful extension deletion, run a read-only Residue Monitor check for remaining tables, options, transients, cron hooks, roles, post meta keys, and user meta keys.
• Separate Observed residue from lower-confidence Likely related naming evidence instead of claiming uncertain ownership.
• Recheck a stored residue report manually without deleting or modifying any site data.
• Build a per-extension Dependency Map from the WordPress Requires Plugins header, reverse dependents, observed shared-resource evidence, and monitored footprint evidence.
• Keep declared dependency metadata separate from observed integration evidence so shared resources are never presented as proof of dependency.

The monitor uses on-demand and event-based scans. It does not run heavy diagnostic scans on ordinary frontend page loads.

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