What’s new in
Clusterlane

A new name: Clusterlane

ClusterIQ is now Clusterlane. Sites that ran ClusterIQ keep everything: on the first load Clusterlane switches the old plugin off and takes over its clusters, history, settings and access rules.

• New Pro and Agency are licensed per site; the free version and Pro never run at the same time, and share the same data
• New Help → Admin & Support: a Site structure section — post types, taxonomies, articles in no cluster and where something stands out
• Improved Phones: Missing content, Pillar & split check and the AI Link Suggestion window fit the screen
• Improved Code reviewed against the WordPress.org Plugin Check, with no remarks
• Fix Text Match: titles with an apostrophe or quotes no longer show as HTML codes

A review of every screen, and safer SEO edits

Every screen was gone through for clarity: one bar that fits, one name per thing, one colour for the main button. SEO Titles gets a compact view and AI per article, and every SEO change can now be taken back to the original.

• New Cluster quick view: health trend, links, pillar and where to start — from Report and the Cluster Inspector list
• New Restore original: the first time Clusterlane changes an SEO title or description, the original is kept
• New Pro: Check with AI in Article Inspector, next to Suggest
• New SEO Titles: compact view, Suggest and Check with AI per article, live counts on the filters
• New Focus next on the Dashboard too
• New Full-screen cluster graph: an article panel with the whole title, picture, links in and out — click a name to go there
• Improved The top bar fits on every screen, with a More menu; Scan is the only button — it updates every figure
• Improved Every button that runs an AI call is marked as one
• Improved Pro: calmer, more consistent AI reviews of SEO titles and descriptions
• Improved Pro: cluster ideas with AI work on sites with 10,000 articles
• Fix The graph’s link count no longer includes the archive page’s edges
• Fix Weak meta descriptions were undercounted in the Report

Any taxonomy, pages as clusters

Tested on a travel atlas built with custom post types, theme templates and ACF relationship fields — sites that look nothing like a blog.

• New Clusters from any taxonomy, not only categories and tags
• New Pages as clusters: islands and their areas, linked through ACF fields
• New Reads the published page, so links your theme builds count too — in the background, four pages at a time
• New Text Match: Apply all, with Stop and Undo run
• Improved The graphs draw the same picture on every visit, with a note on how they are laid out

SEO Titles, the Report and big sites

A page for every SEO title and description, a report to show the work, and the speed for sites with thousands of articles — tested with 10,000 WooCommerce products and with real Claude calls on every AI feature.

• New SEO Titles: every article’s SEO title and description in one list, edited by hand; AI suggestions and Check with AI in Pro
• New Pro: Report with daily history, work done and what to do next — print or PDF
• New Pro: Pillar & split check and Review cluster structure
• New Pro: Link to the pillar at the end of every article in a cluster
• New WooCommerce: product categories as clusters, products with their own score
• New Multilingual sites (Polylang, WPML): links within the same language
• New Sections like your site’s menu in Cluster Inspector, and your own groups
• New Export CSV in Article Inspector, SEO Titles and Cluster Inspector
• New Who can change articles: choose per role who may add links and write SEO fields
• Improved Text Match about 13 times faster — 15,000 pages in under two minutes
• Improved Hundreds of clusters and clusters of thousands of articles stay quick
• Improved Links written as http, without www or to an old slug now count

“What should I do here?” on every screen

Every page now opens with what to do. Site Intelligence Analysis leads straight to the tools, each cluster gets one clear pillar, and Pro adds SEO suggestions and a choice of AI models.

• New Site map: every cluster at a glance on the Dashboard
• New Focus next and a list/map view in Cluster Inspector
• New Improve this article, a vitals row and cluster tabs in Article Inspector
• New Search-result preview of SEO title and description; missing/weak meta filter
• New Pro: AI suggestions for SEO title and description, applied with undo
• New One pillar per cluster (two from 20 articles) — or choose it yourself
• New Site Intelligence Analysis: a button to the right tool on every recommendation
• New Pro: everyday and analysis model (incl. Claude Opus 5.5), editorial or technical tone
• New Thumbnails in search, lists and graph tooltips
• New Pro: AI cache overview with clear per type
• Improved Reverse Text Match finds far more mentions (title keywords, not full titles)
• Improved Rewritten Help page, incl. what is sent to the AI provider
• Fix Link counts no longer mix category pages with articles
• Fix Repeated anchor text in AI link sentences

Every screen redesigned

The admin was rebuilt page by page around one design language: the command bar, clear page heads and needs-attention-first lists.

• New Scan, Sync and Metrics from the command bar on every page
• New Articles to review in Article Inspector
• New Improve this cluster with quick wins, link plans and missing content
• New Pro: Link Suggestions with relevance, AI ranking and undo
• Improved Text Match: exact highlighting, orphans first, apply all, undo
• Improved Cluster Admin and Settings with tabs and a save bar
• Fix Password-protected posts are left out of all analysis

Roles, multisite, Elementor and editions

The foundation for teams, agencies and the Free/Pro/Agency editions.

• New Roles and capabilities: admins manage, editors use
• New Multisite support and Network Admin overview (Agency)
• New Pro: links written into Elementor Text Editor widgets
• New Pro: AI cost tracking, role access and monthly limits
• New Free, Pro and Agency editions; examples in Free

Sticky command bar + ClusterIQ rebrand

A persistent navigation bar now sits at the top of every Clusterlane page in wp-admin — with tab navigation, article search, cluster jump, and quick-action buttons for Scan, Sync and Metrics. The plugin is also officially renamed from Content Cluster Intelligence to Clusterlane.

• New Sticky bar with subnav, article search, cluster dropdown and quick actions
• New Renamed to ClusterIQ across all admin UI
• Fix Gap analysis now scoped correctly to cluster topic
• Fix Link suggestions: manual target search added
• Fix Settings page: Link Card Templates collapsed by default

Settings fixes, gap analysis cluster context

• Fix PHP fatal on new installs when saving AI API key
• Fix Gap analysis now sends cluster name to AI for correct scoping
• Fix Double-encoded prompt values in Settings
• Improve Unified input/select height across Settings page
• Improve PHPStan level 5 cleanup