OpenStation vs S2B AI Assistant – ChatBot, Chatbot Inspector, Image Generator

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.

Build AI chatbots and automation agents for WordPress without coding. The built-in Chatbot Inspector module helps locate pages containing S2B AI Assistant shortcodes as well as chatbots and shortcode placements from popular third-party chatbot plugins. It can also detect popular widget-based chatbots across your website. Generate images using the OpenAI API. Core Modules 🤖 Chatbots Develop multiple AI chatbots with different styles and behaviors on different pages of your website. You can choose models from different AI API providers: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI, Deepseek. Personalize the appearance of each chatbot, including colors, styles and text, as well as its position, window size and behavior by configuring the model, instructions, temperature, token limits and other options. OpenAI Responses API and Knowledge Files S2B AI Assistant supports the OpenAI Responses API, allowing you to create chatbots that can use your own documents as a knowledge source. Upload product documentation, manuals, FAQs, company information or other supported files and let the chatbot search this knowledge when answering visitors’ questions. Each chatbot can have multiple knowledge files and its own independent knowledge base. S2B AI Assistant automatically manages the OpenAI Vector Store and File Search integration, so you do not need to create or configure vector stores manually. The Responses API integration also supports conversation history and model-specific options such as reasoning effort and response verbosity. You can use a regular Responses API chatbot without knowledge files, or add files when you want the chatbot to answer questions using your own content. This provides a modern alternative to the deprecated OpenAI Assistants API for document-based chatbots. Deep Customization feature This allows you to create a unique view for each chatbot using custom CSS rules. To do this, you need to find the ‘Deep customization’ section on the “Chatbots” tab, add the unique HTML ID of the closed and opened chatbot. You can then add CSS rules to each closed and open view of any chatbot. Separate CSS rules can be applied to different chatbots. Chatbot view modifications Use shortcode attributes to change how chatbots are displayed. [s2baia_chatbot view=embedded] — display chatbot directly inside the page without a modal window [s2baia_chatbot view_mode=fullscreen1] — open chatbot in fullscreen mode automatically after page load [s2baia_chatbot view_mode=fullscreen1 hideclose=1] — fullscreen chatbot without close button Available in S2B AI Assistant Pro Restrict chatbot access by user Link chatbot access to WooCommerce products Learn more about restricting chatbot access 🔍 AI Chatbot Inspector Detect chatbots from supported WordPress chatbot plugins and find where they are used across your website. Features Detect supported chatbot plugins Locate pages/posts where chatbot shortcodes are inserted Scan shortcode placements Inspect chatbot integrations across your website Chatbot Statistics Track chatbot engagement directly from your WordPress dashboard. S2B AI Assistant includes a built-in statistics engine that monitors both native S2B chatbots and supported third-party chatbot plugins, giving you a single place to measure chatbot performance. It includes: Chatbot Views Chatbot Opens Open Rate Today, This Week, This Month and All Time statistics Last activity timestamp Supported plugins AI Engine Tidio Buttonizer Chatway LiveChat S2B AI Assistant and more Available in S2B AI Assistant Pro Restrict access to chatbots from supported plugins by user Link third-party chatbot access to WooCommerce products Learn more about chatbot access control 📈 AI Tools Includes three AI-powered SEO agents: SEO Readability Rewrite (HTML only) – Improves clarity while preserving HTML structure. SEO Compare (Post vs URL) – Benchmarks your post/page against an external URL. SEO Compare URLs – Compares two external URLs and generates optimization suggestions. How It Works Each agent runs as a task: * Configure inputs * Content is fetched and analyzed * AI generates a structured SEO report * More detailed information can be found on this page Execution Modes Tasks run either: * Manually, or * In Background (WP-Cron queue) For background processing, WP-Cron must be enabled. If DISABLE_WP_CRON is set to true, queued tasks will not run but you can still run them manually. Available in S2B AI Assistant Pro * Multiple Tasks Per Agent find more 🎨 Image generation Image generation feature requires only API key. It is ready to use by default. You can configure generation options on the Image Generation tab. On the same tab you can generate and store new images using Dall-e-2 and Dall-e-3 models. 🧠 Content-Aware Chatbots (RAG) Build AI chatbots that answer questions using your website content. The plugin supports Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using external vector databases, Embedding API, and Chat Completion API. Upload selected posts or pages into a vector database to enable semantic search across your website content. When visitors ask questions, the chatbot retrieves relevant content and sends it together with the user query to the AI model. This allows you to: Build website-aware AI chatbots Reduce Chat Completion API costs Limit answers only to your website content Improve response relevance using semantic search Learn more: * Content-aware chatbot * RAG setup guide 🧩 Additional Features Conversation logging Token usage statistics Fullscreen chatbot mode Embedded chatbot view allows you to update models directly from OpenAI and independently choose the model to use from OpenAI API platform https://platform.openai.com/docs/models . You can use the same chatbot with different views across different pages. External Services This plugin uses external API when it performs following functions: -when it runs semantic search it sends requests to vector databases: Pinecone -when it builds vector database from content of your website it sends content selected by you to vector database APIs:Pinecone -when you select delete indexed content then it sends deletion requests to APIs: Pinecone -when clients of your website try to search information then plugin sends user’s request to OpenAI API for build embedding and then sends embedded request to vector database APIs for doing semantic search:Pinecone -when clients of your website try to send request to chatbot plugin sends user’s request to OpenAI API. Also it can send request to vector database APIs for doing semantic search:Pinecone -when clients of your website try to send request to chatbot plugin sends user’s request to xAI API -when you or clients of your website try to generate image then plugin sends request to OpenAI API. By using this plugin, you consent to sending data to OpenAI’s and/or Pinecone’s servers, which may include user queries and other relevant information. Please ensure compliance with xAI, OpenAI’s, DeepSeek & Pinecone terms and any applicable data privacy laws. Service Providers: OpenAI Pinecone xAI DeepSeek Anthropic Google Terms of Use: OpenAI API Terms Pinecone xAI DeepSeek Anthropic Google Privacy Policies: OpenAI Privacy Policy Pinecone xAI DeepSeek Anthropic Google Pinecone vector database The S2B AI Assistant box makes use of the API provided by Pinecone. This plugin does not collect any data from your Pinecone account. The information sent to the Pinecone servers mainly includes the content of your website and the specified context. The usage information displayed in the add-on’s settings is only for your reference. To obtain accurate information about your usage, it is important to check it on the Pinecone website. Additionally, please make sure to review their Privacy Policy and Legal documents for more details. Open AI The S2B AI Assistant makes use of the API provided by [OpenAI](https://openai.com/blog/openai-api or [Reference]https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference). This plugin does not collect any data from your OpenAI account apart from the number of tokens used. The information sent to the OpenAI servers mainly includes the content of your article and the specified context. The usage information displayed in the add-on’s settings is only for your reference. To obtain accurate information about your usage, it is important to check it on the OpenAI website. Additionally, please make sure to review their Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for more details. Disclaimer The S2B AI Assistant is a plugin that allows users to integrate their websites with AI services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Claude, xAI’s Grok, DeepSeek and Pinecone vector database https://www.pinecone.io/ . In order to use this plugin, you (user of this plugin) must have own API keys and adhere to the guidelines provided by the chosen AI service. When utilizing the S2B AI Assistant, you (user of this plugin) are required to monitor and oversee the content produced by the AI, as well as handle any potential issues or misuse. The developer of the S2B AI Assistant plugin and other related parties cannot be held responsible for any problems or losses that may arise from the usage of the plugin or the content generated by the AI. Users are advised to consult with a legal expert and comply with the applicable laws in their jurisdiction. OpenAI, ChatGPT, and related marks are registered trademarks of OpenAI. Grok, xAI and related marks are registered trademarks of X.AI LLC. Author of this plugin is not a partner of, endorsed by, affiliated with or sponsored by: OpenAI I, L.L.C.,OpenAI Ireland Ltd , xAI LLC, DeepSeek or Pinecone Systems, Inc. This plugin is intended for users 18 years of age and older. If users under 18 access this plugin, they must do so under direct adult supervision. Parents, guardians, teachers, or other responsible adults should review all AI-generated content before use and ensure it’s appropriate for the intended audience. This plugin generates AI content for informational purposes only. Content generated by this plugin should NOT be used as professional legal, medical, or financial advice without proper review by qualified professionals. Always consult licensed attorneys, medical professionals, or financial advisors for matters requiring professional expertise.