ActionPanel AI – Site Agent & Troubleshooter vs OpenStation

ActionPanel AI is an AI assistant built into wp-admin that can create and edit WordPress content, troubleshoot problems, and carry out maintenance — all from a chat panel inside your dashboard. Instead of switching between the block editor, Site Health, plugin screens, settings pages, and docs, you describe what you want in plain English. ActionPanel AI reads the relevant parts of your site, proposes changes, and — with your approval — applies them. Create and manage content Posts and pages: Draft new posts and pages, rewrite or extend existing content, and edit block content directly. New drafts and edits are yours to review before anything goes live. Custom post types and fields: Create and update custom post types and custom fields on sites using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) or JetEngine. Menus, categories, and tags: Build and reorganize navigation menus and manage categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms. Media: Add and organize items in the media library and set featured images. You can also share an image in chat for ActionPanel AI to use while it works. SEO: Update SEO titles, descriptions, canonical URLs, and social (Open Graph) metadata through your active SEO plugin — Yoast SEO, Rank Math, or All in One SEO. Site design: Adjust block templates, template parts, and global styles, or apply custom CSS to specific pages. Cloning: Duplicate an existing post or page as a draft to use as a starting point. Troubleshoot and maintain Site troubleshooting: Ask what might be broken, why a page is returning an error, why links are failing, or what to check after a site change. Performance checks: Review plugin bloat, autoloaded options, homepage assets, scheduled task backlogs, and other common causes of slow WordPress sites. Plugin and theme review: Find outdated, duplicated, inactive, or potentially risky plugins and themes, then get plain-language next steps. Site Health summaries: Turn WordPress Site Health, REST/runtime details, and maintenance signals into a prioritized explanation of what matters. WooCommerce checks: Review common store setup areas such as checkout pages, payment gateways, shipping zones, and basic configuration. Debug log help: When log reads are enabled, use sanitized excerpts from a readable WordPress debug log file to help explain errors and warnings. Guided maintenance actions: When write operations are enabled, ActionPanel AI can propose supported maintenance actions — such as clearing caches, flushing rewrite rules, running scheduled tasks, and updating allowlisted settings — and explain what they do before you approve them. Common tasks Use ActionPanel AI when you need to: Draft a new post or page or revise existing content. Update SEO titles and descriptions or fix metadata across your content. Build or reorganize a navigation menu, categories, or tags. Check whether a site is ready for plugin, theme, or WordPress core updates. Understand why a page, checkout, form, or permalink may not be working. Review plugin clutter and get a plain-English summary of Site Health and maintenance issues. Investigate slow pages without jumping between multiple admin screens. Built for wp-admin workflows ActionPanel AI lives in the WordPress dashboard, keeps recent conversations available in a sidebar, and includes starter prompts for common content, maintenance, and troubleshooting tasks. It is designed for site owners, content creators, developers, agencies, and support teams who want faster help rather than spending hours in admin screens or documentation. Site context it can use To answer questions and make changes, ActionPanel AI can use selected WordPress context such as post and page content (including block content and custom fields), menus, categories and tags, media details, block templates, template parts, and global styles, along with plugin and theme details, Site Health results, REST/runtime information, scheduled tasks, performance signals, WooCommerce setup, same-site page checks, and approved debug log excerpts. Write operations are optional and turned off until you enable them. When enabled, they cover content and site changes (such as posts, pages, custom post types and fields, menus, taxonomy terms, media, SEO fields, templates, and global styles) as well as maintenance actions (such as clearing caches, flushing rewrite rules, running scheduled tasks, and updating allowlisted settings). You stay in control Admin-only access inside WordPress. Reads and writes can each be turned on or off in ActionPanel settings. Optional per-request approval before site data is shared. Optional read-only debug log sharing that can be turned off anytime. Live-impacting changes — publishing, editing, or deleting existing content, and maintenance actions — require explicit approval; safe draft-only writes may be approved automatically when that setting is enabled. External Services This plugin connects to an external service at https://api.actionpanelai.com. Plugin UI JavaScript/CSS assets are bundled locally in the plugin (not remote-loaded), and any external links shown in the UI are only opened through user-initiated navigation. Requests are sent when: An administrator allows WordPress to send requests to ActionPanel AI and uses chat, content, or diagnostic tools. The assistant reads site data or content needed to answer a question or make a requested change. An administrator asks the assistant to create or edit content and, where required, approves the change. Account/login features are used. Optional log reads are enabled to read sanitized excerpts from a readable WordPress debug log file when WP_DEBUG is enabled and WP_DEBUG_LOG is set to true or an absolute file path. WordPress personal data export/erase tools are used for ActionPanel AI data. Data may include (depending on feature use): Chat messages. Images you attach in chat. Post and page content, including block content and custom fields, that the assistant reads or is asked to create or edit. Menu, taxonomy, media, template, template-part, and global-style data for content and design changes. SEO field values read from or written through your active SEO plugin. Site diagnostics/context. Site configuration summaries, including plugin/theme details, WordPress settings, REST/runtime, and performance diagnostics. Same-site diagnostic HTTP results, such as response status, selected headers, asset URLs, and redacted text previews from pages an administrator asks the assistant to inspect. Sanitized excerpts from a readable WordPress debug log file (only if enabled). Sampled or masked user/account metadata used for troubleshooting. Sanitized home-root server configuration snippets and drop-in metadata. Allowlisted theme or upload file metadata or text contents, plus plugin manifests, needed for troubleshooting. Session/auth metadata required for service operation. Email address and site URL for account and privacy workflows. Safeguards: External API calls are disabled by default on fresh installs until an administrator completes setup. Write operations are optional and disabled until an administrator enables them. “Per-Request Approval for Reads” can require a preview and approval before site data is shared. Log reads are optional, read-only, require WP_DEBUG plus WP_DEBUG_LOG set to true or an absolute debug log file path, and can be turned off at any time. AI initiated write operations require explicit approval before live changes are applied; only safe draft-only writes may be auto-approved, and only when that setting is enabled. Service policies: Privacy Policy: https://actionpanelai.com/privacy/ Terms of Service: https://actionpanelai.com/terms/ Privacy ActionPanel AI can send prompts and selected site context to external ActionPanel AI services when used. Depending on feature use, this can also include conversation history, images you attach in chat, post and page content (including block content and custom fields) that is read or edited, menu, taxonomy, media, template, and global-style data, SEO field values, configuration summaries, plugin/theme details, selected WordPress settings, sampled or masked user/account metadata, sanitized home-root server configuration snippets, plugin/drop-in metadata, and allowlisted theme or upload file metadata or contents needed for troubleshooting. Optional log sharing includes sanitized excerpts from a readable WordPress debug log file only when enabled. The plugin does not create, write, rotate, or relocate log files. Anonymous plugin session chat data is retained for up to 7 days before automatic deletion. Data Export and Erasure For account-linked data, WordPress Tools -> Export Personal Data and Tools -> Erase Personal Data can request site-scoped export/erase by email. The plugin exposes a public privacy-proof REST endpoint that returns only a challenge signature and site host; this lets ActionPanel AI verify site control before processing remote personal data export or erasure requests. Source Code For Bundled Assets The distributed JavaScript/CSS bundle in /build is generated from source included in this plugin package at: /assets-src/frontend Build/reproduction notes are included at: /assets-src/BUILD.md

wp-admin forgets. OpenStation doesn’t. You know the moment. You’re deep in a post and you need one image from the Media Library. You click over, find it, click back, and everything you had going is gone. Your scroll position, your half-typed thought, the three other things you had queued up in your head. That’s not a bug you hit. That’s the design. wp-admin shows you one screen at a time, and every navigation throws the last one away. It has worked this way since 2003, like a fridge that empties itself every time you close the door. WordPress has rebuilt almost everything else. The editor, the site editor, the patterns, the styles. The admin’s one-screen-at-a-time model is the layer nobody touched. OpenStation touches it. Install it and admin screens become draggable, resizable windows. Edit a post while the Media Library sits open next to it. Drag an image from one window straight into the other. Keep comments open in the corner. Reload the browser and your window layout — open pages, positions, sizes, and window states — comes back where you left it. OpenStation itself is free, GPL, and opt-in per user. One click in the admin bar turns it on for you. One click turns it off. Nobody else on your site sees anything change, and deactivating the plugin restores the classic admin exactly. No Core patches and no lock-in. Optional AI providers may charge for their service. Built and maintained by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, and Tumblr. Work on more than one thing at once Admin pages open as windows, including pages added by most other plugins. Drag them, resize them, snap them, tile them, minimize them to a taskbar. The admin menu becomes a dock of icons. Two editors open at once is one click away. Never lose your place Moving between open windows leaves each page in place. Across reloads, OpenStation remembers your open pages, window positions, sizes and states, virtual desktops, and focus. Closing a window with unsaved changes warns you first. A desk you can actually put things on Drop posts, media, and links right onto the wallpaper. Sort them into folders. Trash them to a Trash that actually holds things. The stuff you’re working on this week can just sit out where you can see it. One desktop per job Virtual desktops, the way your operating system does them. One for writing. One for the store. One for comment triage. One for that redesign you keep poking at. Switch between them without closing anything. Find anything with Cmd+K The full WordPress command palette, plus slash commands from your plugins, all under one keystroke. Turn on the optional AI assistant and you can ask it things like “which post had the comment asking for the recipe?” and it searches your own content to answer. (Requires an AI provider configured in Settings → Connectors on WordPress 7.0+. Details under “External services” below.) See how your site fits together The Corkboard is an interactive, zoomable map of how your posts, pages, and products link to each other. Pan around it. Find the orphans. Find the hubs. Running a store? Orders, Products, Coupons, and Customers become browsable folders with stock and sale ribbons. Open a customer to see their lifetime spend and what they buy most. Follow a product to its buyers, or a coupon to who redeemed it. Make it yours Wallpapers, from color presets to animated scenes to your own photo. Live widgets pinned to the desktop: drafts, stats, recent comments, a focus timer. Uploadable desktop themes, including a built-in Legacy theme that brings the old WordPress blue back in one click. And Mio, a soft-body desk companion that drifts across your wallpaper and gets bumped around by your windows. Off by default. You’ll turn it on. For developers Extend OpenStation through documented PHP and JavaScript APIs. Register windows, icons, wallpapers, widgets, commands, and settings tabs through stable openstation_register_* PHP APIs and a typed JavaScript API; customize dock items through documented hooks; add AI tools with the WordPress Abilities API. Copy-paste examples live in the developer docs on GitHub. External services No external service is required for OpenStation’s desktop interface. The optional AI Assistant and two user-initiated enrichment features make the external requests described below. AI Assistant The optional AI Assistant sends data to the AI provider you configure in WordPress’s Settings → Connectors (for example OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google). Generation is routed through WordPress 7.0’s built-in AI Client, which supplies the credentials stored in Connectors. The plugin never handles an API key itself. With no provider configured in Connectors, no external AI requests are made. When the AI Assistant is enabled and a user invokes it (via Cmd+K or the slash-command palette): What is sent: the user’s prompt, the conversation history for the active session, and tool-call metadata. The plugin’s built-in tools (search_posts, search_pages, search_comments) run WordPress’s native keyword search and may include excerpts of the matching posts/pages/comments in tool results, which are then sent back to the provider as part of the agentic loop. When it is sent: on user-initiated AI requests, and (if an administrator enables “Score new comments with AI”) on comment-save hooks for spam analysis. Posts, pages, and taxonomy terms are not sent automatically. Why it is sent: to obtain model completions and tool-call decisions that drive the AI Assistant. Who provides the service: whichever provider you configured in Settings → Connectors. Which provider (and endpoint) receives the data depends entirely on that configuration. Review the chosen provider’s own terms and privacy policy (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google). URL shortcut favicons When an authorized user creates a desktop shortcut to an external URL, OpenStation asks that URL for its page HTML and favicon so the shortcut can display the site’s icon. The request is made from your WordPress server and sends the requested URL, the server’s IP address, an OpenStation user-agent string, and normal HTTP request metadata to the operator of that site. This happens only when a user creates the shortcut. The destination site’s terms and privacy policy apply. WordPress.org plugin information When an authorized user opens or refreshes parts of OpenStation’s Plugins window, OpenStation may request public plugin details, update metadata, and review excerpts from WordPress.org. These requests send plugin slugs, the site’s locale, and normal HTTP request metadata to WordPress.org. This information is used only to display and manage plugins. Review the WordPress.org Privacy Policy. OpenStation’s OAuth relay does not contact a service by itself. Third-party plugins that configure the relay may contact their own providers and are responsible for disclosing those services. Credits OpenStation is brought to you by Automattic. The plugin is open source under GPLv2-or-later; contributions are welcome on GitHub. Third-party libraries The plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript library, loaded on demand only when a feature that needs it is in use: PixiJS (MIT License) — used by the Corkboard window, built-in canvas wallpapers (e.g. the animated WordPress logo), the Mio desk companion, and the Inkfall typing game. PixiJS is loaded from the plugin’s own assets/vendor/ directory; no CDN requests are made. Data files The Inkfall game’s word list (assets/games/inkfall/words.txt) is generated from the following sources (attribution also ships in the file’s header): FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave (CC-BY-SA 4.0) — English word-frequency ranking derived from the OpenSubtitles corpus. english-words by dwyl (Unlicense) — used as a validity filter. LDNOOBW English list (CC-BY 4.0) — used as an exclusion filter.