OpenStation vs Sentient Forms

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.

Sentient Forms adds AI Actions to Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, WPForms, and Elementor Pro Forms submissions: lead scoring (A/B/C/Reject), spam review, entry summaries, content checks, and WordPress logs. Webmasters can use the built-in Actions or create and manage their own Actions in WordPress, including starting from a built-in Action. Spam Detection and Content Quality Validation can run during validation on all four supported Form Sources. Contact Form 7, WPForms, and Elementor Pro Forms support validation plus after-submission Actions through the Submission Ledger; Elementor Pro Forms requires its Forms APIs. The Realtime Clarification Assistant is available only for Gravity Forms. Native notes, spam status, notification controls, and webhook controls vary by Form Source; the Submission Ledger is the shared result surface where native entry features are unavailable. A TWP Technologies, LLC product: https://sentientforms.com. Public source: https://github.com/TWP-Technologies/sentient-forms-wp-plugin. Optional diagnostic consent records allowlisted runtime metadata in WordPress only. Sentient Forms does not remotely queue or deliver those local diagnostic events. Use your OpenRouter key for direct execution, or connect Sentient Forms Managed Execution for managed paid features. AI-generated Site Context needs Managed Execution or a paid, web-capable OpenRouter model; you can also write it manually. Source JavaScript and CSS in assets/dist are generated from admin-app in the public release source: https://github.com/TWP-Technologies/sentient-forms-wp-plugin/tree/v0.12.0. Build with cd admin-app, bun install --frozen-lockfile, and bun run build:wp. External services This plugin sends data to external services only for provider paths and features an administrator enables. OpenRouter direct execution: Service: OpenRouter Endpoint: https://openrouter.ai/ When used: after an administrator connects OpenRouter and runs direct validation, an Action, or AI-generated Site Context. Data sent: selected mapped form fields, Action instructions, model, and request metadata. Site Context sends the site URL and research prompt; web-capable models may fetch public pages. Account required: an OpenRouter account/API key. Site Context requires a paid, non-free, web-capable model. Terms: https://openrouter.ai/terms Privacy policy: https://openrouter.ai/privacy Sentient Forms Managed Execution: Service: Sentient Forms Endpoint: https://api.sentientforms.com/ When used: optional managed account, billing, metering, model execution, support diagnostics, or enabled managed features. Data sent: account/site identifiers and billing state; managed AI execution also sends selected mapped fields, Action instructions, model, and request metadata. Site Context sends the site URL and research prompt; web-capable models may fetch public pages. Account required: a Sentient Forms account may be required for managed paid features. Direct OpenRouter does not require Sentient payment. Terms: https://sentientforms.com/terms Privacy policy: https://sentientforms.com/privacy Administrator-configured webhooks: Service: the webhook URL entered by the site administrator. Endpoint: the administrator-provided webhook URL. When used: only when an administrator explicitly enables a post-execution webhook for an action. Data sent: entry identifier, Action context and result, and configured webhook metadata. Account required: depends on the administrator-provided webhook receiver. Terms: provided by the administrator-chosen webhook receiver. Privacy policy: provided by the administrator-chosen webhook receiver. Realtime Clarification Assistant: Service: OpenRouter direct execution or Sentient Forms Managed Execution, depending on the selected provider path. Endpoint: the same provider endpoint disclosed above for the selected execution path. When used: only when an administrator maps the Realtime Clarification Assistant to a Gravity Forms form and enables realtime suggestions. Data sent: visible pre-submission field values, Action instructions, form metadata, model, and request metadata. Account required: depends on provider path. OpenRouter requires an account/API key. Managed execution may require a Sentient Forms account. Visitor disclosure: site owners should disclose realtime AI suggestions before enabling them because selected field values can be sent before submission. Terms and privacy policy: the same provider terms and privacy policy disclosed above for the selected execution path. Spam Guidance: Service: OpenRouter direct execution or Sentient Forms Managed Execution, depending on the eligible provider path selected by Sentient Forms. Endpoint: the same provider endpoint disclosed above for the selected execution path. When used: only when an authenticated administrator with an active Sentient Forms subscription selects historical submissions and asks Sentient Forms to improve Spam Detection guidance and save a generated rationale. Data sent: selected historical submission excerpts, existing Spam Detection guidance, form metadata, model, and request metadata needed for the generated rationale. Provider order: eligible managed credits are used first. Paid Direct OpenRouter may be used as a fallback when configured and eligible. Account required: an active Sentient Forms subscription is required. Direct fallback also requires a configured OpenRouter account/API key. Terms and privacy policy: the same provider terms and privacy policy disclosed above for the selected execution path. No OpenRouter or Sentient AI execution request should be sent until an administrator has configured and accepted the relevant provider disclosure. Local diagnostic events are recorded only after an administrator opts in and are never remotely queued or delivered.