Frontman - Agentic AI Editor

Watch Frontman in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4GD1GYwH8Y Learn more on the Frontman Website. Frontman puts an AI agent beside a live view of your site. Open /frontman, describe the change you want, and the agent takes action with built-in tools while you review the result in context. Frontman is closer to an editor than a chatbot or content generator. It is built for real editing tasks: updating content, changing blocks, adjusting Elementor pages, managing menus, inspecting templates, changing safe site options, and working with WooCommerce data when WooCommerce is active. No code editor. No terminal. Just an AI agent workflow alongside a live page preview. What the agent can do:

• Create, edit, and delete posts and pages
• Insert, update, and rearrange Gutenberg blocks
• Edit Elementor pages with Elementor-aware tools and versioning
• Manage WooCommerce products, orders, customers, coupons, shipping, taxes, reports, settings, and store data when WooCommerce is active
• Update navigation menus and menu items
• Read and change safe site options such as title, tagline, permalinks, and homepage settings
• Inspect and update Additional CSS for the active theme
• Browse block templates, template parts, widgets, and theme settings

The important part is the feedback loop. The AI agent can change the site, then you can see the result in the same workflow instead of jumping between admin screens and browser tabs. Who it's for: Developers who want faster iteration. Designers and content editors who want to make changes without opening an IDE. Store owners and site managers who would rather describe the task than dig through admin screens. Open source: The Frontman plugin is open source under GPLv2 or later. The code is available on GitHub. Early release - help us improve it: This is an experimental release. It works, but it hasn't been tested across every theme, page builder, and hosting setup. We're looking for users to try it and share feedback. Open an issue or join the conversation on GitHub.

1.0.0

• Major release for the OpenAI provider rename and cross-package breaking changes
• See the GitHub release notes for the full cross-product changelog
• Add WordPress Additional CSS and theme mod source-inspection tools with safer CSS update validation
• Strengthen WordPress source-of-truth guidance and annotation context for Elementor/theme edits
• Fix WordPress admin menu icon alignment

0.18.2

• Improve Elementor mutation schemas so empty add-element, update-settings, full-page-data, and generated-child payloads are rejected before they reach Elementor

0.18.1

• Preserve existing WordPress page templates when saving or rolling back Elementor page data, and report any template side effect in Elementor tool responses

0.18.0

• Add WooCommerce tools for products, orders, customers, shipping, taxes, coupons, reports, settings, system status, and store data when WooCommerce is active

0.17.2

• Improve Elementor editing tool guidance and recovery errors for non-empty settings diffs and full-tree updates

0.17.1

• Sync the Frontman plugin release with Frontman v0.17.1

0.17.0

• Sync the Frontman plugin release with Frontman v0.17.0
• See the GitHub release notes for the full cross-product changelog

0.16.0

• Sync the Frontman plugin release with Frontman v0.16.0
• See the GitHub release notes for the full cross-product changelog

0.17.0

• Remove direct filesystem tools from the WordPress plugin while keeping WordPress API-based content editing tools

0.16.1

• Fix image attachment uploads for WordPress media replacement workflows
• Strengthen Elementor rollback safety for precise widget and HTML-fragment edits

0.16.0

• Sync the Frontman plugin release with Frontman v0.16.0
• See the GitHub release notes for the full cross-product changelog

0.15.0

• Sync the Frontman plugin release with Frontman v0.15.0
• See the GitHub release notes for the full cross-product changelog

0.14.0

• Sync the Frontman plugin release with Frontman v0.14.0
• See the GitHub release notes for the full cross-product changelog

0.13.0

• Sync the Frontman plugin release with Frontman v0.13.0
• See the GitHub release notes for the full cross-product changelog

0.12.0

• Sync the Frontman plugin release with Frontman v0.12.0
• See the GitHub release notes for the full cross-product changelog

0.3.3

• Send the WordPress runtime nonce on plugin tool POST requests from the shared client
• Keep the WordPress plugin metadata aligned for the next release

0.3.2

• Remove the standalone package and remaining standalone references from the WordPress flow and release tooling
• Show a first-use caution warning reminding users to use backups and review experimental changes carefully

0.3.1

• Preserve freeform HTML while mutating blocks so block edits do not silently drop non-block content
• Restrict widget mutations to the supported safe widget types instead of generic direct option writes
• Add tests for the new menu, block, widget, template, and cache tools plus delete-confirm flows

0.3.0

• Add WordPress-native menu, block, widget, template, and cache tools that remove more admin tasks from the browser UI flow
• Require explicit confirmation for destructive WordPress delete tools before they run
• Capture pre-edit snapshots for the new mutating WordPress tools so tool history preserves the previous state

0.2.3

• Add wp_create_menu_item so the agent can add navigation links directly through WordPress tools
• Include pre-edit snapshots in menu item creation and update flows

0.2.2

• Include the prior asset state in mutating WordPress tool results so edit history captures what changed
• Add PHP mutation snapshot tests for posts, blocks, menus, options, and widgets

0.2.1

• Remove the extra server dependency from the WordPress plugin and release ZIP
• Run all normal file tools entirely inside the PHP plugin runtime
• Clear PHP file-tracker state on deactivate and uninstall

0.2.0

• Move the core filesystem tools into the WordPress plugin itself and stop relying on the Bun standalone for normal file operations
• Add PHP tests for the local core tool implementations

0.1.14

• For Lighthouse bootstrap, prefer using the bundled standalone binary as the Bun CLI before falling back to system Bun or installing Bun

0.1.13

• Prepare Bun and Lighthouse runtime dependencies only when the lighthouse tool is called, with the WordPress plugin performing the bootstrap before proxying the audit

0.1.12

• Detach bundled standalone startup more cleanly with setsid/stdin redirection to avoid tying the process to the originating web request

0.1.11

• Fix bundled standalone cleanup paths when Frontman classes are loaded during uninstall without bootstrap constants

0.1.10

• Install Bun on startup when needed and run bun install for standalone Lighthouse runtime dependencies

0.1.9

• Make search_files avoid Git fallback outside Git repositories and use plain filesystem search instead

0.1.8

• Improve plugin lifecycle cleanup during uninstall and deactivation

0.1.7

• Improve plugin deactivation cleanup

0.1.6

• Improve WordPress production tooling support

0.1.5

• Add plugin-side runtime logs for debugging tool execution

0.1.3

• Let list_files work outside Git repositories for typical WordPress hosting setups

0.1.2

• Improve file tool behavior on restrictive WordPress hosting setups

0.1.1

• Improve release packaging for the WordPress plugin

0.1.0

• Initial release
• 19 WordPress tools: posts, blocks, menus, options, templates, widgets
• File tools for theme and site editing
• Admin-only access with cookie-based authentication
• Settings page for API configuration
• Dev mode for local development