SlopStopper vs OpenStation

Give your users control over their AI slop intake. SlopStopper lets website owners identify AI-generated content and provides visitors with a simple toggle to show or hide it. Some website owners find that a bit of AI assistance can be a helpful time-saver. Others use it to extend their verbal or artistic skills. However, many users are turned off by AI content on aesthetic or moral grounds. SlopStopper provides websites with an on-off toggle for AI content, allowing site owners to employ AI as needed, better disclose its non-human provenance, and grant users the ability to scrub AI content from their user experience if they prefer. Links Support Forum Rate Plugin Plugin Features Visual toggle for generative content Supports multiple content types Administrative control panel Responsive design Persistent preferences Background image support Custom AI container block Customize or randomize obscuration filter Cache plugin compatible Visual Toggle SlopStopper adds a floating toggle switch on front end of your site. When clicked by a user, their localized display of the site will toggle between modes of showing or hiding your AI-generated content. The switch is unobtrusive by default, becoming prominent when hovered over. The labels and position of the switch can be configured from the admin control panel in the settings section of your site’s backend. Multiple Content Types AI-generated content can be identified by image, post, page, or by a custom Gutenberg block type for sections of AI content within any post, page, or template. AI Images Compatible with all image formats! SlopStopper adds an “AI generated” checkbox to the Details modal of every image in your Media Library. Checking the box will identify that image as being AI-generated. When the user elects to hide AI-generated content, these images will be hidden behind a black overlay. Clicking the toggle to show AI content will remove the overlay, allowing the image to display. Posts and Pages SlopStopper adds a checkbox to the edit screen of every post and page. Checking the box will identify that post or page as being entirely AI-generated. When the user elects to hide AI-generated content, the content of the page will be replaced by a notice that the content is AI generated. Clicking the toggle to show AI content will reveal the content of the post or page. Other Content SlopStopper adds a custom “AI Generated Content” block type that serves as a container for blocks containing any AI-generated sections within a post, page, or template. Any number of blocks can be placed within the “AI Generated Content” container. When the user elects to hide AI-generated content, contained content will be hidden or replaced. Clicking the toggle will reveal the hidden content. Admin Control Panel SlopStopper adds an SlopStopper settings page under the Settings section of your WordPress backend. From here, you can set the position and labels of the toggle switch and an optional message to show when AI content has been hidden. Responsive Design SlopStopper uses responsive design techniques to adjust to displays on desktop and mobile devices. User Preference Memory SlopStopper remembers a user’s preference for showing or hiding the AI-generated content on your site, providing a consistent experience as the user navigates from page to page. The preference is saved to the user’s browser and is not accessible to the website owner or plugin developer. Background Image Support When an image is identified as AI-generated and used as a background image, the AI-generated image will be overlaid in black while the foregrounded content will not be affected unless also identified as AI-generated. Custom Gutenberg Block SlopStopper adds an “AI Generated Content” block to the Gutenberg editor. This block acts as a container for content in any blocks of AI content placed within it. Customize Obscuration Filter From the admin settings, slop images can be obscured with four basic filters: light and dark patterns, solid color, and a circuitry pattern. These can be customized with hue, saturation, and brightness to match the look of any website. The appearance can also be randomized and set to change daily. Cache Plugin Compatibility SlopStopper integrates with 15+ popular caching plugins including: * WP-Optimize * WP Rocket * W3 Total Cache * LiteSpeed Cache * WP Super Cache * And many more… This ensures AI content changes are immediately reflected without manual cache clearing. Installation Instructions There are three methods to install this plugin. 1. Via WordPress dashboard Click on ‘Add New’ in the Plugins dashboard Search for ‘SlopStopper’ Click ‘Install Now’ button Activate the plugin from the same page or from the Plugins dashboard You will now be able to identify the AI-generated content on your site (see below) 2. Via uploading the plugin to WordPress dashboard Download the plugin to your computer from (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ai-slopstopper/) Click on ‘Add New’ in the Plugins dashboard Click on ‘Upload Plugin’ button Select the zip file of the plugin that you have downloaded to your computer before Click ‘Install Now’ Activate the plugin from the Plugins dashboard You will now be able to identify the AI-generated content on your site (see below) 3. Via FTP Download the plugin to your computer from (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ai-slopstopper/) Unzip the zip file, which will extract the ‘ai-slopstopper’ directory Upload the ‘ai-slopstopper’ directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory in your web space Activate the plugin from the Plugins dashboard You will now be able to identify the AI-generated content on your site (see below) For Multisite installation Log in to your primary site and go to “My Sites” » “Network Admin” » “Plugins” Install the plugin following one of the above ways Network-activate the plugin You will now be able to identify the AI-generated content on your site (see below) After Activation Activating the plugin will enable you to identify the AI-generated content on your site and will allow visitors the option to show or to hide as they prefer. In your Media Library, check the “AI generated” checkbox on your AI-generated images. For AI-generated posts and pages, check the “AI generated” checkbox on each edit page. Wrap AI-generated content on posts, pages, and templates into “AI Generated Content” blocks in the Gutenberg editor. As you add new AI-generated content to your website, always remember to identify it accordingly. The plugin settings page can be accessed via “Dashboard” » “Settings” » “SlopStopper” Pro Tip for Site Owners Using Caching If you use a caching plugin, SlopStopper automatically clears relevant caches when you mark content as AI-generated. However, you may need to view the page while logged in to see changes immediately. Regular visitors will see the updates after the cache naturally expires or on their next visit.

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.