OpenStation vs Interactions – Animations for Elementor & Gutenberg

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.

Interactions – Animations and Interactive Experiences for Elementor & Gutenberg Visit our website to learn more about how Interactions work. Want to make your website feel alive and interactive? Interactions is a no-code WordPress animation plugin for scroll effects, hover animations, click interactions, and micro-interactions — built for Elementor, Bricks, and Gutenberg. Add fade-in-on-scroll, parallax-style motion, button hover effects, and custom Trigger → Action automations without writing JavaScript. Check our samples page here to see a glimpse of what type of interactions you can create. You don’t need coding skills or complex tools. With Interactions, you can: Pick from the Interactions Library – A collection of pre-built animations and effects (like images that move upon scrolling down the page, buttons that glow when hovered, and more). Just click and apply. Learn more Build your own custom effects – Use a simple Trigger → Action system. Example: “On scroll → Fade in element”, or “On click → Play video”. Learn more Add functional features – Securely update post data, handle form submissions, display user info, copy text to clipboard, and more without coding. Learn more Whether you want subtle hover effects, attention-grabbing story-telling animations, playful micro-interactions, or powerful functional features, Interactions makes it possible. Works with The native WordPress Block Editor / Gutenberg Popular Page Builders Elementor (Interaction library WIP) Bricks (Interaction library WIP) Divi (WIP) Popular Block Editor Builders Stackable Kadence Spectra GenerateBlocks CoBlocks Greenshift Otter 🚀 Features Create custom interactions easily with a simple Trigger → Action builder. Features include: Animations & Visual Effects: Animation effects (fade, slide, zoom, rotate, shadow, etc.) Scroll effects – reveal content as users scroll down Hover effects – highlight and animate elements on hover Click triggers – run actions when buttons, images, or sections are clicked Basic Interactions: Mouse interactions – Click, hover, mouse move, mouse press Scroll interactions – Enter viewport, element scrolling, page scrolling Form interactions – Form submitted, input change, keypress Page interactions – Page load, page create Basic Actions: Animation actions – Move, rotate, scale, skew, opacity Style actions – Background color, background image, text color, CSS rule, toggle class, update attribute Display actions – Display, visibility, focus Navigation – Redirect to URL Media – Toggle video Effects – Confetti Core Features: Reusable Interaction Library – apply popular effects instantly Custom trigger → action builder – advanced users can design unique effects Performance optimized – loads only what’s needed for your chosen interactions Works with blocks, page builder elements, and any theme Works with Elementor and Bricks Why Interactions? WordPress scroll animation plugin — reveal content on scroll Hover effect plugin — buttons, cards, images Elementor animation plugin — works inside the Elementor editor Gutenberg animation plugin — library + builder in the block editor No-code interaction builder — visual Trigger → Action timeline Performance-friendly — loads only what’s used on the page 🎯 Perfect For Designers who want scroll animations without code Marketers who want attention-grabbing hover effects Bloggers who want dynamic storytelling with animations Site builders who want to bring their designs to life, or create unique micro-interactions Developers who need functional features like post meta updates and data handling Anyone building modern interactive websites in WordPress 💎 What’s in Premium? Check our pricing page to learn more about what’s in Interactions premium. Advanced Interactions: Scroll Strength – Measure scroll intensity Page State – Monitor page state changes Page Exit – Detect when users try to leave URL Hash – Respond to URL hash changes Local Storage – Monitor storage changes Toggle Attribute/Class – Watch attribute and class changes HTML Events – Custom HTML and document events Advanced Actions: Box Shadow – Dynamic shadow effects Slide Animations – Smooth slide up/down effects Content Management – Securely insert sanitized HTML, render shortcodes, copy to clipboard Data & Post Management – Update post/user meta (with permissions), get post data, local storage Navigation & UX – Scroll to element, tooltips, popups, confirmation dialogs Media – Video scrubbing, SVG animations (line draw, morph, motion path) Advanced Features – Animated counters, advanced automation Premium Benefits: 40+ Premium Actions – Access to advanced functionality 10+ Premium Interactions – More trigger options Priority Support – Faster response times Regular Updates – New features and improvements Commercial License – Use in client projects Source Code: The source code for this plugin is available on GitHub: https://github.com/gambitph/Interactions