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Daniel López Sánchez (prismiwi2015) edited this page Aug 25, 2026
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Welcome to the openstation wiki!
This wiki is generated from the docs/ directory — edits made here are overwritten by the next sync.
To change a page, open a pull request against docs/.
Guides
- Development guide
- Releasing openstation
- Agents security model
- API Index
- Architecture
- Bridge protocol — wiring overview
- <os-*> component reference
- Native Desktop Host — Experimental
- Desktop themes
- Dock customization — two registries, one mental model
- The event-driven framework
- Files on the Desktop
- Folder sharing
- Getting Started
- Hooks Reference
- Icons
- JavaScript Reference
- The Living Tree — algorithm definition
- Mio
- Native Windows & Framework Interop
- Plugin compatibility layer
- Progressive Web App (PWA)
- Station Home
- Using openstation from your own plugin
Migration notes
- Migration: built-in activity channels move to the os/ namespace
- Migration: window, wallpaper and widget bundles load on demand
- Migration — the navigation model
- Migration: a native window's tabs move to the window chrome
- Migration — WordPress package globals are no longer ambient
All examples
- AI Agents — extend and invoke from a plugin
- wp.os.ai.ask() — programmatic AI Copilot
- Tune the AI model config
- Custom arrange-menu action
- Open a child window its owner can't cover
- Style a specific admin page inside the iframe
- Code Blue — register your plugin's log file
- Open a file in the Code editor (deep-link from any window)
- Connect to a window — title-bar button + iframe pub/sub
- Content changes — live-refresh every window listing your type
- Custom window chrome (Experimental)
- Register a custom unfocused-window effect
- Example: render a data table
- Real file storage — react to uploads, gate policy, share from PHP
- React to a window being set free onto the real desktop
- Cross-window devtools — instrumentation primitives
- Add a dock item with a badge
- Decorate the dock without forking the renderer
- Replace the dock rail entirely
- Retune the Drafts widget's AI writing assistant
- Gate OpenStation by role
- Iframe-initiated window opens
- Build a feed reader without the bookkeeping
- Inject data into openStationConfig
- Render a list without losing clicks — renderKeyedList()
- Example: layout primitives (body → panel → row → col)
- Use <os-*> components from a plugin that ships as a zip
- Restyle and drive Mio
- Add an action that works on a whole selection
- WP Explorer — custom post types and their folder
- Add an action button to a WP Explorer preview pane
- Example: native Posts window
- Example: native window with tabs
- Native windows
- Customize note → post conversion
- Send a notification
- OAuth relay — connect to an external service
- OS-file drop
- <os-flyout> — window-scoped sliding card
- Plugins window — extras
- Track who's around — wp.os.presence
- Example: progress bar
- PWA install — surface your own button
- React to window events
- Example: extend the Trash
- Register a slash-command
- Register a desktop theme from a plugin
- Register a game
- Example: register a desktop icon (Jorvy)
- Register a wallpaper
- Register a widget
- Related entities — extend the title bar's "Related" menu
- The native-window render ctx
- Programmatic folder sharing
- Share state across multi-bundle plugins — wp.os.createSharedStore()
- Example: loading spinner
- Add an opt-in card to Station Home
- Accept drops on your desktop icon
- Give a tile two icons, one per state
- Add a row to a window's ⋯ menu
- Example: window activity & the status ring
- Window controls
- Subscribe to window lifecycle events
- Window links — relate windows and restyle the ties (Experimental)
- Window loading state — spinner overlay & ready signal
- Show a banner at the top of a window
- Pulse a window's icon — Window.requestAttention()
- Register a custom window reveal
- Window slots
- Window themes
- Native window with bundle-bound config
- Place something where the user can reach it — wp.os.workArea