OpenStation vs WS Image Generator for Ideogram AI

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.

WS Image Generator for Ideogram AI creates images for your WordPress posts and pages using a managed integration with Ideogram. It adds a metabox to public post types and a settings page to control model, aspect ratio, style, overlay options, and more. Social-ready outputs: the plugin can automatically generate platform-optimized images for Facebook and Instagram, overlaying your site logo, post title, and domain. If Yoast SEO is active, it also auto-populates Open Graph and Twitter image fields, improving your previews on social networks. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to Ideogram. “Ideogram” is a trademark of its respective owner and is used here solely to describe compatibility. The plugin connects to our service at wpideogramai.com which forwards your request to Ideogram and returns the generated image back to your site. See Privacy below. Features Generate images from the post editor (metabox). Global settings for Model, Aspect Ratio, Magic Prompt, Style. Facebook image generation: logo/title/domain overlays + optional dark overlay. Instagram image generation: logo/title/domain overlays + optional dark overlay. Yoast SEO integration: auto-fill OG/Twitter image fields (optional). Uses the WordPress Media Library and sets the Featured Image automatically. Async job handling with admin notices when a job is completed. Fully translatable (Text Domain: ws-image-generator-for-ideogram-ai, Domain Path: /languages). Compatibility – Works with the Block Editor and Classic Editor – Any public post type – Yoast SEO integration is optional and auto-detected Service & Limits (SaaS) This plugin integrates with a remote service. The free tier allows up to 4 images per month per site. Higher quotas and newer models are available with paid plans handled on wpideogramai.com. The plugin itself does not lock or disable features: when a quota is reached, it simply displays the service response (e.g., “limit reached”) without restricting WordPress functionality. Security Webhook callbacks are validated (e.g., HMAC/signature) and only perform the minimal required actions. Administrative endpoints are protected via WordPress capabilities (e.g., current_user_can('manage_options')). No sensitive data is exposed via public REST endpoints. Localization This plugin is ready for translation: – Text Domain: ws-image-generator-for-ideogram-ai – Domain Path: /languages To create translations on your machine: 1. Generate the POT file (e.g., with Poedit or wp i18n make-pot): languages/ws-image-generator-for-ideogram-ai.pot 2. Create your language files, e.g.: languages/ws-image-generator-for-ideogram-ai-it_IT.po and languages/ws-image-generator-for-ideogram-ai-it_IT.mo External services This plugin connects to an external service to perform image generation requests. Service: wpideogramai.com Purpose: Processes image generation through Ideogram AI on behalf of the plugin and returns the result to your WordPress installation. Data sent: – Your site domain (used for license validation and free-tier identification) – The site admin email is only used for license/account management on wpideogramai.com (for example, to associate a free key with your site). It is not sold or shared with third parties by this plugin. – API key or license token (if configured) – Image generation parameters: prompt text, model, style, aspect ratio, and related settings – Basic technical metadata (e.g., version, language) for request handling When data is sent: – When saving or validating your API key – When generating an image (via post metabox or settings page) This external service is required for the plugin to function. Data is transmitted securely over HTTPS and used only for processing the generation request. No payment information is collected through the plugin. Terms of Service: https://wpideogramai.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://wpideogramai.com/privacy Privacy This plugin connects to our relay service at wpideogramai.com, which forwards your request to the Ideogram API and returns the generated image to your site via REST. The plugin sends your text prompt and selected settings (e.g., model, dimensions) plus your site domain (used to issue/enforce a free license). Our service records license status and usage counters and may temporarily cache results to deliver them back to you. The final image is saved in your WordPress Media Library. Ideogram’s API is used only indirectly via wpideogramai.com. No direct connection is made between your WordPress site and Ideogram’s servers. By using the plugin you agree that your prompts and settings are transmitted to wpideogramai.com and to Ideogram solely for image generation. No payment data is sent from the plugin; any upgrades are handled on wpideogramai.com. Review your and Ideogram’s privacy policies as needed. Trademark & Disclaimer “Ideogram” and related marks are trademarks of their respective owners. This plugin is an independent integration and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ideogram.