Site-list tool gains instant feedback, error highlights, and auto-deselect in v1.6.8

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Version 1.6.8 of a site-management tool introduces three UX improvements to its bulk maintenance workflow, which typically handles 10–20 sites over several tens of minutes. Previously, thumbnails and plugin badges only refreshed after an entire bulk run finished; now each site updates instantly upon its own completion, without affecting sites still in progress. A new error-highlighting feature applies a red border and background to any site that returns a failure marker, persisting for 24 hours and resetting at the start of a new maintenance session. Error detection deliberately uses a single unambiguous log marker to avoid false positives, accepting that a missing marker leaves a site green rather than risk incorrectly flagging a successful one. Finally, selected checkboxes are now automatically cleared after a run completes, preventing users from accidentally re-targeting the same sites in a subsequent operation.

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