Desktop Mode

Changelog

0.9.0

• Gate per-user REST routes on desktop mode enabled
• Refine recycle bin badge styling and sync on stop
• Clear comments selection after applying action
• Don’t let a failing sync block the agent
• Make the AI-disabled error link to AI Settings

0.8.9

• Improve drag-and-drop handling in chromeless bridge and iframe bridge
• The whole shell loads faster, especially the first time you open wp-admin
• Open an app from the wallpaper or from the dock — it’s the same window now (no more two copies floating around)
• Minimize a window and the dock icon shows it’s minimized — even if you opened it from the desktop icon
• Click “+ New” twice and you get two editors. Drafting a post and want to start another? Just click again
• “Switch to Desktop Mode” always takes you to the dashboard, so you know where you’re starting from
• Resizing a window and accidentally letting go over the desktop no longer minimizes everything
• WooCommerce: the “Add Order” button is back on the Orders page
• “Add New” buttons (Add Post, Add Order, Add anything) stay visible inside every plugin page
• After we ship a fix, you get it on your next page load — no more “try refreshing twice”

0.8.8

• Align dock badge with in-window update count
• Make every dock scrollable, keep system tiles pinned
• No more flash when you create, move, or delete a file or shortcut on the desktop
• Trashing a folder that contained other folders now works (used to silently fail)
• Drag an image from the Media Library straight into a Gutenberg post, it now inserts
• Edit User screen: the form is centered instead of pinned to the left
• Title-bar icons (Help, etc.) are now visually centered
• Sticky notes powered by WP Guidelines

0.8.7

• Bump Tested up to WordPress 7.0
• Fix plugins window stale-nonce ‘Cookie check failed’ on long-running sessions
• Fix plugin .zip drop routing to Media Library uploader
• Add server-side search to entity list views
• Rename Browse tab to Add Plugin
• Drag and drop improvements

0.8.6

• Light indicators for native-window-target dock icons
• Additional fixes and polish
• Add compatibility layer for Divi script dependencies and tests
• Show plugin icons
• Open off-site menu items in a new browser tab

0.8.6-rc1

• Tag cloud & category mindmap: search, clustering, server cache
• Drag & Drop from local desktop
• Implement loading skeletons and staggered animations for file tiles
• Arrow-key shortcuts + Overview-from-Show-Desktop fix
• Shortcuts popover, dock-style tooltips, reorder
• Add Featured Plugins View and Ribbon Component
• Add “Automatic Updates” column and related functionality to Plugins window
• Add window notices feature with persistent dismissal and server sync
• Polish four framework surfaces for plugin authors
• Disable focus on other window actions
• Add Media section to “My WordPress” + uniform preview-pane hook surface
• Refactor My WordPress to use <wpd-tile> + add post status ribbons
• Allow deactivating plugins in CMO desktop & dock
• OS-file drop — progress UI, live refresh, cancel cleanup, CMO
• Group-by selector + click-to-deselect + focused-icon centering
• Test against PHP 8.3 and 8.4
• Enhance minimize/restore behavior to preserve pre-minimize state and add cross-state transition tests

0.8.5

• Shared folders, heartbeat widget, and heartbeat-pipeline hardening
• Recycle Bin: show item type badges inline next to title
• Plugins window: expandable rows with rich plugin details
• Remember native window size across opens
• Fix blank plugin icons in the Plugins window
• Restore “Show desktop on wallpaper click” as an opt-in setting
• Fix plugin update refresh, dock badge, and stuck-row failures
• Trash bin polish: URL badge, live placement badge, no media auto-trash
• Throw on empty REST body to avoid TypeError after self-replace
• Hide Media filter tab when MEDIA_TRASH is off
• Sequence openCurrentPage after restoreSession to avoid duplicate windows
• Fix window refresh issue on new sessions

0.8.4

• Faster Desktop Mode, main bundle cut by 59 %
• “Edit Post” from the front-end admin bar opens nothing
• Cross-page admin-link clicks: state, destructive actions, referer hint
• Warn loudly when a <wpd-*> tag is used without being imported
• Support re-uploading existing plugins, add post-install Activate panel
• Restore the full WordPress command palette inside Cmd+K

0.8.3

• Feat comments as native windows
• Chrome <111 titlebars + duplicate-placement REST 500s
• SW navigation interception caused window-in-window after core update
• Open each post as its own window from the Posts window
• Fix Users window data + live-refresh, plus per-window REST clients
• Session-expiry cascade + Plugins window sync
• Narrow scope to /wp-admin/ and throttle SW reloads
• Plugins window: real updates, not just a phantom badge
• Support plain permalinks for REST URL construction
• Hide registered icons from desktop instead of trashing

0.8.2

• Many fixes and new features
• Add unit test to ensure bridge script skips core AJAX update buttons
• Native Plugins window + <wpd-card>
• Appearance window polish + dock-peek fixes
• Fix upload theme
• Implement favicon resolver and associated tests for desktop mode
• Auto-inject X-WP-Nonce for REST API requests
• Enhance user management functionality in WordPress REST API
• Fix user role updates
• Fix plugin native issues
• Enhance color scheme preview functionality by adding shell scheme flipping
• Fix rearrange icons out of desktop
• Open each post in its own window
• Add item visibility and dock order settings
• Add first-run welcome dialog for Desktop Mode
• Fix dock management
• Refetch desktop placements on Recycle Bin restore

0.8.1

• Framework rework and stability improvements — significant internals refactor, smoother window lifecycle, and more reliable bridging between iframe and native windows.
• Drag and drop reworked end-to-end: calmer pointer behavior, more accurate hit-testing, and reliable handoff across windows.
• Posts, Pages, and Users now open as native desktop windows — direct DOM rendering inside the shell instead of an iframe, faster open, instant interaction, and UI tailored to the windowing model.
• New Content Graph tool — an interactive map of how your content links together. Pan, zoom, and focus a node to explore its neighborhood.
• Cross-page admin link routing in the chromeless bridge so links across the admin stay inside the desktop shell.
• Many bug fixes across the admin bar, Fullscreen toggle, resize handles over iframes, real-time icon refresh on plugin activation, and the PWA shell.

0.5.1

• Code editor and framework improvements.
• Enhanced AI provider integration: third-party providers may register through desktop_mode_register_ai_provider().
• Title-bar button registry with icon painting for plugin authors.
• OS Settings tabs are now extensible via desktop_mode_register_settings_tab_script() / desktop_mode_register_settings_tab().
• AI Copilot extensibility: server-side tool registry (desktop_mode_register_ai_tool()) and client-side wp.desktop.ai.ask() programmatic entry point.
• UI component kit expansion (~25 <wpd-*> web components).
• Backtick hotkey to cycle window focus.
• Unified command palettes via the palette registry.
• OS Settings Help tab.

0.5.0

• Command registration APIs (desktop_mode_register_command_script() / desktop_mode_register_command()) with live install/activate refresh.
• Media-library enhancement enabled by default, with opt-out.
• Dock CSS selectors updated; overflow handling improved.

See the GitHub releases page for the full history.