OpenStation vs MVP Docs

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.

MVP Docs adds a simple documentation system to your WordPress site. It creates a Docs custom post type with categories, a clean archive page, and a markdown import tool — nothing more. Why MVP Docs? AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT are excellent at generating documentation in Markdown format. MVP Docs was built to take advantage of that — paste your AI-generated .md files straight into WordPress with a single click. No copy-pasting HTML, no reformatting, no fussing with blocks. Just import and publish. Beyond the AI workflow, most documentation plugins are overbuilt. They add custom page builders, proprietary editors, dozens of database tables, and megabytes of JavaScript. MVP Docs takes the opposite approach: Uses the native WordPress block editor Works with any theme (block themes and classic themes) Stores content as standard WordPress posts Loads zero scripts or styles outside of doc pages No lock-in — your content is just posts and taxonomies No external dependencies — everything ships with the plugin Features Docs post type with archive at /docs/ Doc Categories for organizing content Search — AJAX-powered typeahead dropdown on the archive and category pages, with a dedicated search results page at /docs/search/ Markdown import — upload a .md file and it converts to native Gutenberg blocks (tables, code blocks, lists, and all GFM features) Import / Export — export docs, categories, and settings as a JSON file, or include referenced images in a zip bundle; import on another site Archive page — docs grouped by category in a card grid Category archives — full list of docs in a category with search bar Search results page — dedicated page with breadcrumbs and themed card layout Breadcrumbs on single doc pages Settings — archive layout (columns, border radius, docs per category), colors, page titles, sort order, custom slugs, category ordering via drag-and-drop Block theme support — registers proper block templates for single docs, archives, category pages, and search Classic theme support — falls back to PHP templates with get_header()/get_footer() WP-CLI — full command-line coverage so an AI agent or shell script can configure and populate a docs site without ever opening wp-admin Markdown Import — Built for AI-Generated Docs AI tools produce clean, well-structured Markdown. MVP Docs lets you import those .md files directly into the block editor with one click. The sidebar includes an “Import from Markdown” button — upload a file and it gets parsed client-side with full GitHub Flavored Markdown support (via marked.js), then converted into native Gutenberg blocks. The first # Heading becomes the post title automatically. Use your favorite AI to generate docs, how-to guides, or knowledge base articles in Markdown, then import them into WordPress without any reformatting. Supported: headings, bold, italic, links, images, tables, fenced code blocks with syntax hints, task lists, strikethrough, blockquotes, horizontal rules, ordered and unordered lists. Import / Export Go to Docs > Settings > Import / Export to: Export docs, categories, and/or settings as a single JSON file Import a previously exported file to restore or migrate content between sites Existing docs with the same title are skipped during import to avoid duplicates. Categories are created automatically if they don’t exist. WP-CLI Every admin action has a command-line equivalent, so a docs site can be stood up and populated entirely from a shell script or AI agent. Run wp mvp-docs --help for full details on any command below. Content wp mvp-docs import-md Import a Markdown file as a doc. Output is byte-identical to the sidebar Markdown importer — same blocks, same title extraction from the first # heading. wp mvp-docs import-raw Import a raw HTML file as a doc. Block-commented HTML is preserved as-is; plain HTML renders as a Classic block in the editor. Both import commands accept: * --title= — override the extracted title * --slug= — explicit post slug * --excerpt= — short description shown on category/search pages * --category= — assign to this category (created if missing) * --sort-order= — in-category sort priority (lower appears first) * --status= — post status (default: publish) * --dry-run — print the generated markup instead of creating a post Backup and migration wp mvp-docs export [--docs] [--settings] [--with-images] [--output= ] [--pretty] Dump docs, categories, settings, and category order to a single JSON bundle. Omitting --docs and --settings exports everything. Pipe to stdout or write to a file. Pass --with-images to bundle referenced images into a zip alongside export.json (requires --output). wp mvp-docs import Restore a previously exported file. Auto-detects .json and .zip bundles; for zips, referenced images are sideloaded into the media library and content URLs are rewritten. Docs are deduplicated by title, so running the same import twice is safe. Structure wp mvp-docs reorder-categories ... Set the display order of categories. Accepts term IDs or slugs. Settings wp mvp-docs settings list [--format=table|json|yaml|csv] Show every setting with its current value, description, and allowed form — self-documenting so you never have to read the source to discover what’s configurable. wp mvp-docs settings get Print a single setting’s value. wp mvp-docs settings set ... Update one or more settings. Values run through the same sanitizer as the admin UI; if a value is rejected (e.g. columns=7 when the allowed range is 1–4), a warning names the allowed form and shows the actual saved value. Changing docs_slug or category_slug auto-flushes rewrite rules. Quick start for AI agents wp plugin activate mvp-docs wp mvp-docs settings set docs_slug=kb archive_title="Knowledge Base" wp term create mvpd_category "Getting Started" --slug=getting-started wp mvp-docs reorder-categories getting-started wp mvp-docs import-md ./intro.md --category=getting-started --sort-order=1 wp mvp-docs export --output=backup.json