Antimanual Builder is a truly AI-powered, drag-and-drop
visual page builder that brings a Replit/Lovable-style website building experience to WordPress. Describe the page you want in plain language and get a complete, editable layout back — then keep refining it by chat or by hand.
It's a full-screen design canvas for native WordPress pages:
no Gutenberg, no separate "builder" post type, and no lock-in. Every page you create is a regular WordPress
page post, so your content stays portable and works with your theme, permalinks, and other plugins.
Build pages with AI. Generate whole layouts from a prompt, ask for changes conversationally, and migrate existing pages with AI assistance — all inside the editor. You have two ways to power the AI:
- WordPress AI Connectors (WordPress 7.0+) — point Builder at the AI provider built into WordPress core for one-shot page generation, with nothing extra to install.
- The free Antimanual companion plugin — connect your own provider and API key to unlock the live editor chat, knowledge base, and conversational refinement. Works with OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, and OpenCode Zen.
Or build entirely by hand. Every page is fully editable with drag-and-drop layout tools, inline canvas editing, reusable components, header/footer templates, and a responsive live preview. Manual editing and page migration work
standalone — no API key and no external service required. Add AI when you want it; Builder keeps working fully without it.
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1.2.0 (11 September 2026)
- Added: Templates tab in the editor — 36 ready-made starter templates for pages, blocks, and headers/footers. Preview one at desktop, tablet, or mobile width, then create a draft from it in one click.
- Added: Use this template can hand the new page straight to AI Chat, which rewrites the demo copy into your own content using what it remembers about your site and your knowledge base.
- Added: Six standalone showcase designs — Alba, Vector, Studio Index, Fluid Studio, Nova, and Yanxi Onsen — imported whole, keeping their original fonts, motion, and layout.
- Added: Insert a starter component into an empty section on the canvas, with search and category filters.
- Added: A catalogue of 42 named motion effects (curtain reveals, clip wipes, marquees, magnetic cursors, rolling counters, and more), each with a full implementation spec the AI follows exactly.
- Added: Long messages you send in chat now collapse to two lines behind a fade, with an arrow to expand them.
- Added: Antimanual Cloud AI with free monthly credits — no API key setup. Chat shows the remaining balance and stops when credits run out.
- Added: Background Build can update existing pages — pick specific pages or all of them — instead of only creating new ones (Pro).
- Added: Site Header & Footer page template — wrap Builder content in your theme's header and footer, without the theme's inner page layout.
- Added: Page migration copies this site's stylesheets, scripts, and fonts so migrated pages keep working after the source plugin or theme updates.
- Added: An Assets screen to review and update the copied CSS, JS, and fonts that migrated pages depend on.
- Added: Page migration keeps your SEO plugin titles, descriptions, and related data.
- Added: Set a page's parent from the editor and from Quick Edit.
- Improved: The AI treats motion as part of building a page, not a finishing touch — it picks two to four named effects and applies them consistently instead of inventing something different for every section.
- Improved: Plans now name the motion effects the page will use, so you approve the animation along with the layout — in chat plan mode and in background site builds.
- Improved: Starter templates can be free or Pro; Pro ones preview in full and link to an upgrade.
- Improved: Quick Edit opens in a modal instead of inside the list row.
- Improved: Page migration captures published pages as visitors see them, without logged-in admin scripts such as Elementor Notes.
- Fixed: Migrated pages on Theme Default now load their imported stylesheets on the live site, not only in the editor canvas.
- Fixed: Theme Default pages keep the WordPress admin bar spacing when you are logged in.
- Fixed: Clicks, menus, and chat widgets on migrated pages keep working after save.
- Fixed: Migrated pages no longer show stuck loaders or leftover top spacing from the original page.
- Fixed: Contact forms on builder pages now collect real submissions instead of being blocked by the page's own success script.
- Fixed: Stop and New chat now cancel the in-flight AI turn instead of leaving it running in the background.
1.1.0 (22 August 2026)
- Added: Form capture and default notification email on the Settings page — turn collection off site-wide, and choose where new entries are emailed when a form has not set its own recipients.
- Added: Set a page's categories, tags, and featured image from the editor's page settings.
- Added: The AI can read and update a page's title, slug, status, excerpt, categories, tags, and featured image — including when creating a new page.
- Added: Quick-start prompts when you open a blank header, footer, or component.
- Added: Queue follow-up prompts in chat while the AI is still working.
- Added: Pick a WordPress AI Connectors provider or model (or Auto) in Settings and in chat.
- Added: Drag a saved block from the insert menu onto a specific spot on the canvas.
- Added: Duplicate a component from the Components admin list.
- Added: HTML import asks you to upload missing stylesheets, scripts, images, and fonts before creating the page (Pro).
- Improved: The editor Settings sidebar is denser, with smaller fields, type, and spacing.
- Improved: Page and element settings now share one Settings sidebar with Page and Element tabs.
- Improved: Switch between Antimanual and WordPress AI Connectors from the chat panel, not only Settings.
- Improved: Hierarchy drag-and-drop lets you nest or promote items by moving left and right.
- Improved: Header and footer template thumbnails and untitled placeholders are clearer and more accurate.
- Improved: Draft and private pages no longer offer a save when nothing has changed.
- Improved: The save button shows progress while a save is in flight.
- Improved: Saved blocks keep their styles, colors, and scripts when you reuse them on another page.
- Improved: Save a block from the sidebar, not only the canvas right-click menu.
- Improved: Switching between AM Builder admin screens is instant, without reloading the whole page.
- Improved: Admin lists can show 500 rows or every row at once.
- Fixed: With WordPress AI Connectors selected, the AI agent can run its tools again.
- Fixed: Saves no longer strip boolean or empty attributes.
- Fixed: Saves no longer bake temporary preview states (like open menus) into the page HTML.
- Fixed: Selection outlines now show on clipped images.
- Fixed: The Hierarchy panel follows the element you click or drag on the canvas.
- Fixed: Replacing or editing an image or link on the canvas now targets the one you clicked, not a previously selected one.
- Fixed: Published pages keep HTML5 and SVG tags and attributes instead of stripping them on the live site.
- Fixed: Imported HTML pages now match the import preview in the editor and on the live site (Pro).
- Fixed: Draft pages in the admin list show a real date instead of an invalid one.
1.0.0 (14 August 2026)
- 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.
- Added: The AI can take a screenshot of the editor canvas — and scroll it first — to see how the page looks while it edits.
- Added: A chat setting to turn those AI canvas screenshots on or off.
- Added: An optional "Show cost estimates" chat setting that shows an estimated dollar cost for each AI turn and tool step, using your model's published rates.
- Added: An Example Prompts picker in chat, with searchable examples for live search, forms, and other advanced builds.
- Added: Form Submissions — forms on your builder pages now collect what visitors send, into a new Submissions screen with unread, read, spam, and trash views.
- Added: Each new entry is emailed as it arrives, to the addresses and subject line that form chooses in the editor, with reply-to set to the visitor.
- Added: Export your form entries to a CSV spreadsheet, honouring whichever filter you are viewing.
- Added: Per-form settings in the editor — the form's name, the thank-you message visitors see after sending, and an opt-out for forms that shouldn't be collected.
- Added: An unread count on the AM Builder menu, so new entries are never missed.
- Added: Search boxes on builder pages now really search your site, with no setup needed.
- Added: A ready-made Search block in the editor's insert menu, with sidebar settings for its label, placeholder, and button style.
- Added: A page's own scripts can fetch your published posts, categories, products, and site search results through a built-in helper, so custom filters, live search, and load-more work without inventing URLs.
- Added: The AI can look up what your site really contains — its post types, categories, tags, menus, and custom fields — so it stops guessing names that don't exist (Pro).
- Added: The AI can connect a section to your live content on its own, and checks the connection against your content before saving (Pro).
- Added: Ask the AI to confirm that every connected section on a page is returning real content, and which fields will show up blank (Pro).
- Added: Show WooCommerce products in a section, with their real price, rating, stock, and best-seller order (Pro).
- Added: Let visitors filter a connected list with a dropdown or a search box, with no scripting needed (Pro).
- Added: "Show more" buttons can reveal the next batch of items, using the button your page already has (Pro).
- Added: Connect a parent–child section — cards for parent pages with a nested list of their children inside each card (Pro).
- Added: The builder's page list now shows each page's address.
- Added: Background Build — describe a multi-page site in chat, then run the build as a background job and follow progress from the admin notifications bell (Pro).
- Added: Drag sections and elements into place directly on the page canvas, not only from the hierarchy panel.
- Added: Convert several WordPress pages to AM Builder at once from the Pages list, and follow progress from the admin notifications bell.
- Improved: The AI now picks its design references from a browsable library instead of a search index, so design guidance works on every provider, needs no re-indexing, and costs nothing extra per request.
- Improved: The AI can also draw on your own saved headers, footers, and components as design references, so "make it like my other page" works.
- Improved: You are now told when the AI stopped mid-answer because it ran out of room, instead of the reply quietly ending half finished.
- Improved: The AI now stops repeating a failed action instead of retrying it dozens of times, and tells you plainly when it got stuck.
- Improved: When an AI provider fails — including rate limits — the editor now names the provider and the reason, with clearer guidance on what to do next.
- Improved: Each AI tool step in the chat now shows how many tokens it used, and cached tokens are counted separately when the provider reports them.
- Improved: Switch AI provider from the chat panel, not only the model.
- Improved: The Dynamic Content dialogs and the sidebar binding panel have been redesigned to match the rest of the editor.
- Improved: The editor now explains when an element can't be made dynamic, or has moved since you selected it, instead of failing silently.
- Improved: Connected sections in the editor now show your site's real content instead of stand-in samples.
- Improved: Navigation menus connected to WordPress now show their dropdown sub-items, instead of only the top level (Pro).
- Improved: The editor now previews your site's real menu items instead of sample links.
- Improved: The sidebar now warns you when an imported page renders as an exact copy of the original document, where no theme or plugin code runs.
- Improved: Migrating a page waits longer before giving up on slow or heavy sites.
- Fixed: AI-generated sections no longer run edge to edge — their content now has proper width and side spacing, both on the published page and in the editor preview.
- Fixed: Choosing the Full-Width page template now actually makes the page full width, instead of only marking it.
- Fixed: A shortcode block no longer prints its editor placeholder and the raw shortcode text onto the published page next to the real output.
- Fixed: Scripts a plugin emits through a shortcode in a header or footer template now run, instead of showing up as visible text on the page.
- Fixed: Content other plugins add to a page — related posts, share buttons, and the like — now appears on builder pages instead of being discarded.
- Fixed: Builder pages now output one page title instead of two, leaving your SEO plugin's title as the only one.
- Fixed: A page that lists other pages can no longer loop endlessly and exhaust the site's memory.
- Fixed: Clicking a row in the editor's element list now simply selects it, instead of folding it away — only the arrow folds it.
- Fixed: The importer no longer opens to a blank screen.
- Fixed: Imported pages are now created at the addresses the import screen listed.
- Fixed: A connected section no longer shows the same items twice (Pro).
- Fixed: Live content is no longer wiped out when a post's own text contains double curly braces, such as an article about templating (Pro).
- Fixed: Newer OpenAI models that still rejected tool use after the automatic retry now continue when reasoning is forced off.
- Fixed: Page titles and labels no longer show garbled text like & instead of &.
- Fixed: Your theme's form fields and styles no longer override the design on builder pages.
- Fixed: AI-built pages keep their styles on the published site when they use the standalone layout, instead of looking unstyled.
- Fixed: Refreshing the page while the AI is waiting for your answer no longer breaks Submit on the question card.
- Security: Saving a page as an author who doesn't hold the script permission now clears that permission, so newly added scripts can never run under an earlier author's.
See changelog for all versions.