Antimanual Builder – Truly AI Powered Visual Page Builder

Changelog

0.8.0

Introduces Antimanual Builder Pro. HTML/ZIP import and dynamic content move to the premium add-on; the free builder keeps all manual editing, components, templates, page migration, and design tools.

  • 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

First public release of Antimanual Builder — an AI-assisted visual page builder for native WordPress pages that also works fully by hand, with no AI or API key required.

  • 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.
  • Single HTML and ZIP project import tools.
  • Shared Antimanual AI provider integration.
  • Design defaults and responsive preview modes.

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Version:
0.8.0
Last Updated
July 13, 2026
Requires
WordPress 6.0
Tested Up To
WordPress 7.0.1
Requires PHP
7.4

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