Antimanual Builder – Truly AI Powered Visual Page Builder
Changelog
0.9.0
Added: WordPress AI Connectors — on WordPress 7.0 and later, you can point AM Builder at the built-in WordPress AI Connectors for one-shot page generation, without needing the Antimanual companion plugin. A new toggle under Settings → AI Provider Settings lets you switch between Antimanual and WordPress Connectors at any time.
Added: One-Click Install — install and activate the free Antimanual companion plugin right from the Settings page or the editor, without leaving the screen.
Added: The live AI editor and agent now work with Anthropic Claude models, alongside OpenAI, Gemini, xAI, DeepSeek, and OpenCode Zen.
Added: Plan mode lets the AI editor propose a step-by-step plan and wait for your approval before making any changes.
Added: An opt-in workspace AI agent that searches your page’s code and makes precise edits across files.
Added: Design System — the old Design Defaults is rebuilt into a full, card-based brand system with a live website preview: color roles, typography with a type scale, spacing, component styles, brand voice, and default header/footer. It lives on its own “Design System” screen, and every new page follows the active one.
Added: Start from a template — pick a ready-made design (Bold & Punchy, Frosted Glass, Refined Editorial, Y2K Nostalgia, and more) and apply it to your site in one click, with a live preview of how it looks.
Added: Choose a page’s design right in the editor — the chat’s Design Settings is now a searchable picker of your design systems and templates (plus “From prompt”), each with a live preview and a shortcut to open it, replacing the old Default / Custom / From Prompt tabs.
Added: Build a design system from any website with AI (Pro) — paste a URL and AM Builder extracts its real colors, fonts, spacing, and components and writes an editable design guide, saved and named automatically.
Added: Design system library (Pro) — save multiple named design systems, rename them inline, and switch the active one at any time.
Added: Design guide / README (Pro) — capture everything the fields can’t (layout, animation, structure, imagery, do’s and don’ts); the AI treats it as authoritative rules when generating pages.
Added: A toggle in the element style panel lets you choose whether a style change applies only to the selected element or to every element sharing its class, with an editable class name field.
Added: Width and height fields now offer min-content, max-content, and fit-content as unit options.
Added: Attach images and files to your AI chat messages so the assistant can see and read them.
Added: A clear (×) button on the Background, Text, Border, and Shadow color fields lets you unset a color entirely instead of only changing it.
Added: A “New Header” / “New Footer” choice when creating a template, so you pick the kind upfront instead of guessing afterward.
Added: The AI chat agent can browse a web page you point it to and read its text, colors, fonts, and outside libraries, so it can work from real reference material.
Added: When asked to review a whole site, the AI agent now follows the site’s links and sitemap to check other pages instead of stopping at the homepage.
Added: Agent Memory — the AI can save durable facts like brand rules or preferences that carry over into future conversations, with a new “Agent Memory” tab in Settings to review or delete them.
Added: The AI can now ask to look back at an image you attached earlier in the conversation, instead of only remembering that you sent it.
Improved: AI Provider Settings — clearer guidance on where AM Builder draws its AI from, with a summary of what the Antimanual plugin adds, such as the live editor chat, knowledge base, and multiple AI providers.
Improved: Editor Chat — when your site uses the WordPress Connectors, the editor now explains that the live AI chat needs the Antimanual plugin and offers a one-click switch, instead of stopping without a reason.
Improved: Confirmation Dialogs — delete and other irreversible actions now show a clearly marked confirm button so choices are safer and easier to read.
Improved: AI replies now render with full formatting — tables, lists, headings, links, code blocks, quotes, and checklists — instead of showing raw markdown text.
Improved: Token usage is now a clickable panel that breaks down input, output, and total tokens, and the count plus the copy and retry buttons stay visible at all times.
Improved: Your messages now appear in a colored bubble and AI replies on a plain background, so it is clear which is which and longer replies read like a document.
Improved: The AI’s activity now shows each step’s input and its result, expandable and connected as a progress chain, so you can follow exactly what the assistant did.
Improved: The AI page editor now works consistently across every connected AI provider.
Improved: The AI editor can resume long tasks and shows a real diff of what it changed.
Improved: Asking the AI about a selected element now targets exactly that element.
Improved: The editor canvas and the code view now stay in sync for JavaScript files.
Improved: AI-generated page styles are scoped to the page, so they no longer clash with your active theme’s styles (or leak onto it), and the editor preview matches the live site more closely.
Improved: Enhance Prompt now uses the model you selected in the chat instead of the site’s default model.
Improved: Your selected chat model is now remembered after you reload the editor.
Improved: The AI’s completion summary is now short and to the point instead of a long recap.
Improved: Models that don’t support tool calling are hidden from the editor’s model picker so you can’t pick one that can’t drive the editor.
Improved: When a chosen model can’t do tool calling, the editor now explains it and suggests switching, instead of failing with a cryptic error.
Improved: The AI now loads your chosen fonts from Google Fonts automatically (with preconnect), so the typography your design system specifies actually appears on the page.
Improved: The dropdown menus used across the editor (like the unit picker) always stay on screen and no longer close themselves when their own list is scrolled.
Improved: The box shadow field is replaced with proper offset, blur, spread, color, and inset controls, falling back to raw text only when multiple shadows are already set.
Improved: Flexbox controls now only show up when the element’s layout is actually set to flex.
Improved: Files you attached earlier in the conversation are still remembered, so you can ask a follow-up question about them later.
Improved: The AI now knows whether it’s editing a page, a component, or a header/footer template, and won’t build full-page content into a template.
Improved: Large, multi-section pages are now built one section at a time, so big requests are less likely to get cut off partway through.
Fixed: Enhance Prompt now reliably returns an improved prompt instead of sometimes replying with a question or a block of code, and explains the reason when the chosen model cannot enhance.
Fixed: Token counts and the AI activity log now stay after refreshing the page instead of disappearing.
Fixed: Chat prompts now work reliably with Google Gemini models, which could previously fail with a tool-schema error.
Fixed: Inline SVG background images now render on the live site instead of being cut off.
Fixed: The hierarchy panel and canvas now keep the highlighted/selected element correctly matched to its position in the page, even after the editor adds or removes its own on-canvas controls.
Fixed: Typing in style fields no longer feels laggy.
Fixed: Picking a unit (px, %, etc.) on an empty size field now actually applies it instead of doing nothing.
Fixed: The AI chat now reliably remembers which element or section you selected, even across follow-up messages.
Fixed: The Stop button in AI Chat now actually cancels work in progress, instead of just hiding while the AI kept editing in the background.
Fixed: The AI no longer accidentally duplicates a section, like the header or footer, when asked to redesign it.
Fixed: Templates now always have a definite header-or-footer kind, so the canvas preview, saving, and the “new template” button no longer disagree.
Fixed: The editor no longer resumes the wrong chat conversation when navigating in from elsewhere — only on an actual browser reload.
Fixed: The Publish/Update button’s rounded corners no longer look cut off on templates.
Fixed: A clearer message now explains when a chosen AI model can’t accept image attachments, instead of a confusing generic error.
Fixed: Some newer OpenAI models no longer fail when advanced reasoning settings are combined with tool use — the request now retries automatically instead of failing the turn.
Removed: The redundant template-kind badge in the page settings panel.
0.8.0
Changed: HTML & ZIP import is now part of Antimanual Builder Pro — the Import screen shows an upgrade prompt without an active Pro license.
Changed: Dynamic content is now a Pro feature — binding a section to live posts, terms, or page meta, and connecting a section to a live WordPress navigation menu.
Added: Licensing, upgrade, and 14-day trial handling via Freemius.
Added: Settings now shows a clear notice when the free Antimanual companion plugin is inactive, with a one-click button to install or activate it so AI providers can be connected.
Improved: Admin screens — the header banner now spans full width consistently across Pages, Templates, Import, and Settings for a cleaner, unified layout.
Improved: Pages that already use dynamic content stay clean without Pro — bound sections fall back to their static layout instead of showing raw template placeholders.
Fixed: Admin screens could fail to load (“Cannot read properties of undefined”) when a dependency printed a PHP notice into an Inertia response; admin responses are now emitted as clean JSON.
Developer: The premium import and dynamic-content backend ships only in the Pro plugin, shrinking the free build.
0.7.0
Added: A full-screen visual builder for native WordPress pages, with a live editing canvas and no Gutenberg required.
Added: Manual drag-and-drop and inline canvas editing that works fully without AI or an API key.
Added: Optional AI page generation and refinement from a chat prompt, using your own provider through the free Antimanual companion plugin.
Added: Optional AI works with OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, and OpenCode Zen.
Added: A reusable component library — save any section and insert it on any page, with live previews, search, and category filters.
Added: Push an update to a saved component out to the pages that use it, choosing which pages and leaving hand-edited copies alone.
Added: A header and footer template system with a visual picker that shows a live thumbnail of each template.
Added: Import a single HTML file, or analyze and create whole pages from a ZIP project, with chunked upload and a progress bar for large sites.
Added: Migrate an existing page into the builder as a faithful copy, choosing to replace the original or keep a copy.
Added: Bind a section to your real site content so it updates automatically, or turn a section into a live navigation menu.
Added: Attach external CSS and JavaScript libraries from a CDN, controlling load position and async/defer behavior.
Added: Set Design Defaults for new pages — tone, design system, typography, spacing, corners, and brand colors.
Added: Preview layouts across Desktop, Tablet, and Large and Small Mobile.
Added: Undo and redo with keyboard shortcuts.
Added: Automatic crash recovery that offers back unsaved changes if the tab closes before you save.
Added: Page version history — every save keeps the previous version, restorable from a History panel.
Added: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code-editor tabs alongside the visual canvas.
Security: Custom page JavaScript runs on the live site only when added by a user allowed to publish code.
Security: Imported markup is sanitized with a script-free allowlist, and event-handler attributes are stripped so imported pages can’t run injected scripts.
0.4.0
Added: Save any block to your library and reuse it on any page.
Added: Push an update to a saved component out to every page that uses it — choosing which pages, and leaving individually edited copies untouched.
Added: Pages now flag when a saved component has a newer version, so you can refresh it in one click.
Added: Turn a static section into a repeating loop bound to your real content, so it updates automatically as your data changes.
Added: Convert a static section into a live navigation menu bound to your site’s content.
Added: Attach external CSS and JavaScript libraries from a CDN so they load on your page.
Added: Control where each CDN script loads (head or end of body) and its async/defer behavior, editable right from the list.
Added: Set a custom URL slug per page when importing, with live conflict checking.
Added: A visual header/footer picker shows a live thumbnail of each template in page settings and global design, instead of just a name.
Added: Page version history — every save keeps the previous version, and a History panel lets you load any earlier version back into the canvas.
Added: Automatic crash recovery — unsaved changes are backed up in your browser and offered back if the tab closes or crashes before you save.
Added: Restored the full HTML/CSS/JS code editor tabs in the page editor.
Added: A floating View/Edit toggle above the canvas.
Added: Per-section add and remove controls, plus a Clear Content action.
Added: A Knowledge Base on/off toggle that the AI respects when generating pages.
Improved: The component insert menu now has live previews, search, category filters, and paging.
Improved: You’re warned before deleting a saved component that’s still used on a page.
Improved: Migrating an existing page is now a faithful, one-step copy that reproduces the page exactly, even on large pages.
Improved: When migrating, you choose up front whether to replace the original or make a copy (copy is the default), with a clear “Migrating…” progress screen.
Improved: Imported pages now come in as faithful, fully editable clones with their JavaScript preserved and running on the live page.
Improved: Deleting a header/footer template now warns which pages and defaults rely on it, and falls back to the default gracefully.
Improved: Private templates can now be selected as a page’s header or footer.
Improved: Page template options now explain what each one does.
Improved: Timestamps across the app now show friendly relative times like “5 minutes ago”.
Improved: The AI writes section-scoped styles your theme can’t override.
Improved: The AI inspects the real page before planning broad requests, breaking them into clear per-section steps.
Improved: The main action button now reflects page status — “Save Draft” for drafts, “Update” for published pages — instead of always saying “Publish”.
Improved: Confirmation prompts (deleting a page, leaving with unsaved changes, clearing import history) now use consistent in-app dialogs instead of browser pop-ups.
Improved: The canvas right-click menu uses consistent icons and closes with Escape or an outside click.
Improved: Deleting a page now removes its generated style and script files.
Improved: Uninstalling the plugin cleans up everything it created, while keeping your content (pages, templates, designs, chat history) unless you opt in to full removal.
Improved: Interface polish across the editor and admin screens — a unified accent color, consistent buttons, fields, dropdowns and tables, keyboard-accessible menus, resizable panels, clearer icons, and better text contrast.
Fixed: Large site imports that previously failed now work — big ZIP files upload in chunks with a progress bar.
Fixed: Sites with many pages now analyze reliably during import.
Fixed: Choosing a theme template now actually renders the page — including imported pages — inside your active theme with its header and footer.
Fixed: The AI no longer gets stuck repeating the same fix.
Fixed: Pages now look the same on the live site as in the editor — element styles, fonts, and embedded form shortcodes (Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, etc.) behave consistently.
Fixed: Pages shown through a theme template no longer leak raw placeholder text or shortcode markers.
Fixed: Saving no longer alters your content — backslashes, dollar signs, and other special characters are preserved exactly as typed.
Fixed: A single AI edit is now one undo step.
Fixed: Undo no longer clears a page’s custom code.
Fixed: Stopping an AI generation now stops cleanly without freezing the editor.
Fixed: Deleted chat conversations stay deleted.
Fixed: A failed deletion now reports the error instead of silently doing nothing.
Fixed: The canvas right-click menu now acts on the exact element you clicked.
Fixed: The canvas no longer flickers or jumps the scroll position.
Fixed: The blank Templates page now works, and Templates appears in the builder navigation.
Fixed: The New Component and New Template buttons no longer open the wrong editor or save your work as a normal page.
Security: Custom page JavaScript runs on the live site only when added by a user allowed to publish code.
Security: Imported documents are sanitized more strictly so unsafe markup can’t be stored or served.
Removed: The unreliable AI-rewrite option when migrating a page, replaced by the faithful one-step copy.
0.3.0
Removed the custom CSS and custom JavaScript editors and their backing REST fields. Page styles are now generated programmatically from block settings and the visual style inspector; no free-form CSS or JS is stored by the plugin.
Inline <script>, <style>, and on*= event-handler attributes are stripped from saved HTML, imported head/footer markup, and the stored import document, regardless of the saving user’s capability.
Frontend output is filtered through wp_kses() with a script-free allowlist as a defence-in-depth measure.
Added a one-shot upgrade routine that removes any custom CSS/JS post meta and per-post source files left over from earlier versions.
0.1.0
Initial release.
Full-screen Builder editor with AI chat and manual editing.
Internal builder block system for layouts, content, and advanced elements.
Component library.
Page migration tools with AI/direct modes and replace/duplicate behavior.
