OpenStation vs Fast RAGbot

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.

Fast RAGbot is an intelligent chatbot that uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with support for multiple AI providers to provide accurate answers based exclusively on your website content. Key Features: Multi-LLM Support: Choose between Gemini, OpenAI (ChatGPT), or Claude Multi-Domain Indexing: Index up to 3 different domains Document Upload: Bulk upload PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, TXT, XML, CSV Conversation Memory: Maintains last 5 Q&A turns per session Smart Follow-ups: Suggests questions when answer not found Widget Customization: Custom colors, logo, position, theme CSS Pre-chat Form: Optional name/email collection Chat Logs: Full conversation logging with CSV export Shortcode Support: Embed chat anywhere with [ragbot_chat] Grounded Responses: Answers only from your content – no hallucinations Source Citations: Provides URLs of source pages for transparency Mobile Responsive: Works perfectly on all devices Security First: Rate limiting, nonces, and proper sanitization How It Works: Crawls and indexes your website content Creates semantic embeddings using Google Gemini Retrieves relevant content based on user questions Generates contextual answers with source citations Displays responses in a floating chat widget Perfect For: Customer support automation FAQ assistance Product information queries Company information lookup Documentation assistance External Services & Data Usage This plugin connects to external AI services to provide chatbot functionality. Below is a detailed explanation of what data is transmitted and how it is used. External Services Used Google Gemini API (https://ai.google.dev/) * Used for: Text embeddings and AI text generation * Data sent: User questions, website content chunks, conversation history * Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy * Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms OpenAI API (https://openai.com/) – Optional * Used for: Text embeddings and AI text generation (when selected as active model) * Data sent: User questions, website content chunks, conversation history * Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/privacy/ * Terms of Service: https://openai.com/terms/ Claude API by Anthropic (https://anthropic.com/) – Optional * Used for: Text embeddings and AI text generation (when selected as active model) * Data sent: User questions, website content chunks, conversation history * Privacy Policy: https://www.anthropic.com/privacy * Terms of Service: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/terms What Data Is Transmitted User’s Question: The text message submitted by the website visitor Retrieved Document Chunks: Relevant excerpts from your indexed website content (typically 5-8 chunks of ~1000 characters each) Conversation History: Last 5 question-answer pairs from the current session Model Parameters: Temperature (0.1), max tokens (1000), and other generation settings Data Usage & Storage Data is transmitted only for generating responses to user questions No data is stored or used for training by external AI providers (per their API terms) Data transmission occurs in real-time and is not cached by the plugin on external servers All API communications use HTTPS encryption Local WordPress Storage The plugin stores the following data in your WordPress database: Options (wp_options table): * ragbot_settings – Plugin configuration including API keys, widget settings, and preferences Custom Tables: * wp_rag_docs – Indexed website pages and uploaded documents * wp_rag_chunks – Text chunks created from indexed content * wp_rag_embeddings – Vector embeddings for semantic search * wp_rag_sources – Content source configurations (domains, settings) * wp_rag_logs – Chat conversation logs (optional, includes user name/email if pre-chat form enabled) * wp_rag_url_queue – Queue of URLs pending indexing Session Data: * PHP sessions store temporary conversation history (cleared when session ends) * Browser sessionStorage stores chat UI state (cleared when tab closes) Data Control & Privacy User Control: * Delete API keys anytime from Settings > Fast RAGbot > Models tab * Clear all indexed content using “Clear Index” button * Reset plugin settings to defaults * Export or delete chat logs from Settings > Fast RAGbot > Chat Logs tab Data Deletion: * Deactivating the plugin preserves your data * Uninstalling the plugin removes all database tables and options * Use “Clear Index” to remove indexed content without uninstalling Privacy Compliance: * No data is shared with third parties except your chosen AI provider * Chat logs are optional and stored locally in your database * Pre-chat form (name/email collection) is optional and disabled by default * All user inputs are sanitized and validated * Rate limiting prevents abuse (10 requests per 60 seconds per IP) Developer Privacy Policy For questions about data handling, please review: * Your chosen AI provider’s privacy policy (links above) * Your own website’s privacy policy (you are the data controller) * WordPress.org privacy guidelines: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/ Privacy Policy This plugin acts as a data processor, sending user questions to your chosen AI provider. You (the site owner) are the data controller and responsible for: * Disclosing AI service usage in your privacy policy * Obtaining user consent where required by law (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) * Ensuring compliance with local privacy regulations The plugin stores chat logs locally in your database. If you enable the pre-chat form, user names and emails are stored and should be disclosed in your privacy policy. Support For support, please visit the plugin’s support forum or contact the developer. Credits Supports embeddings and text generation using Google Gemini, OpenAI, or Claude. Built with WordPress coding standards Follows accessibility best practices