KOTOTSUGI

KOTOTSUGI is a standalone WordPress plugin. It is not an add-on or module for atshift Fields or atshift User Profile Fields, and neither plugin is required. The name KOTOTSUGI is written as 言継ぎ in Japanese. It combines koto, evoking words or an utterance, with tsugi, meaning to continue, inherit, or pass something onward. The name reflects the plugin's role in carrying an AI-created Markdown draft into WordPress, where a person can keep editing and refining it. KOTOTSUGI gives the block editor a focused Markdown import workspace. Paste a draft from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any Markdown-aware writing tool, or load a local Markdown file. Review the generated article in a wide preview, then add editable blocks at the current cursor position, replace the current body, or create a separate draft. The importer supports headings, paragraphs, emphasis, links, images, lists, tables, quotes, fenced code blocks, horizontal rules, and GitHub-style callouts such as [!NOTE] and [!WARNING]. Quick Post adds a separate, passphrase-protected posting page for contributors who should not need the WordPress admin screen. An administrator fixes the display language, post author, default category, and whether a submission is saved as a draft or published immediately. Version 1.2 includes:

• A source-and-preview workspace inside the WordPress block editor.
• Local .md, .markdown, and .txt file loading with drag and drop.
• A bundled sample article localized for all 15 supported languages.
• Service-neutral AI authoring rules for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other writing tools.
• Editable WordPress blocks for headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, quotes, code, links, images, and callouts.
• Focused YAML Front Matter for titles, excerpts, slugs, tags, categories, and featured images.
• Preflight checks for unsupported syntax, heading hierarchy, image URLs, and title conflicts.
• Three insertion methods: add at the cursor, replace the current body, or create a separate draft.
• Permission-checked remote image import with private-network and SVG rejection.
• A separate Quick Post page for ordinary text, simple notation, local images, review, and submission.
• Administrator controls for the Quick Post destination, author, category, display language, and draft or publish behavior.
• Bundled translations for 15 locales.
• Language-appropriate writing hints and multilingual plain-text notation recognition.

GitHub and WordPress.org release packages include the same translations for English (US), Japanese, Spanish (Spain), German, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Russian, Dutch, Chinese (Simplified), Polish, Turkish, Indonesian, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan), and Korean.

1.2.1

• Correctly parse Markdown links and images whose URLs contain balanced or escaped parentheses, including preflight checks and remote image import.
• Keep Quick Post passphrase inputs masked when JavaScript or masking styles are unavailable, while preserving Japanese input support when enhanced masking is active.

1.2

• Fix Quick Post image attachments so the block editor accepts the generated image blocks.
• Keep underscores and asterisks in link URLs and inline code from turning into emphasis.
• Fix Quick Post code blocks with a language label so the block editor accepts them.
• Load the Markdown workspace only in the post editor to avoid script warnings in the widgets editor, Customizer, and site editor.
• Allow three incorrect Quick Post passphrases, then require growing waits of 1, 5, 15, and 60 minutes from the same address.
• Warn contributors when the next incorrect passphrase would start a wait, and show how long to wait once it starts.
• Give browsers that already entered the passphrase separate waits, so a shared network address does not lock out existing contributors or permit unlimited guesses.
• Email the site administrator once per hour when Quick Post receives many incorrect passphrases.

1.1

• Show language-appropriate Quick Post writing hints for all 15 bundled languages.
• Recognize localized labels for places, important information, notes, prices, and phone numbers regardless of the displayed language.
• Accept common Unicode bullet characters as simple lists.
• Recognize currency symbols and codes before or after amounts while preserving the entered price notation.
• Add $ as an optional locale-aware price shortcut while preserving $10 as an explicit US-dollar amount.

1.0

• Add bundled translations for 13 more locales.
• Add all 15 bundled languages to the Quick Post display-language setting.
• Add localized sample Markdown for all 15 supported languages.
• Clarify that KOTOTSUGI is a standalone plugin and update the author URL.

0.5.1

• Enforce custom post type creation and media upload capabilities in Quick Post.
• Add server-tracked sessions with individual logout revocation and session-scoped local drafts.
• Make login attempt and duplicate-submission reservations atomic.
• Bind completion receipts to the current session and submission.
• Limit submitted block depth and count before recursive processing.
• Complete image handling before transitioning a Quick Post to published status.
• Require attachment edit permission before reusing an imported remote image.

0.5.0

• Add the standalone Quick Post workflow for contributors who do not use wp-admin.
• Add passphrase protection, login throttling, signed sessions, CSRF protection, and duplicate-submission prevention.
• Accept pasted Markdown and plain text with preview and warning review.
• Add administrator controls for the publishing destination, post author, category, and draft or immediate publication behavior.
• Add local image attachments with previews, alternative text, Media Library storage, and image blocks.
• Hide irrelevant Front Matter status and author notices from the contributor review.
• Use the operating system's normal dictation without microphone permissions or an in-plugin recorder.
• Add progressive plain-text formatting for places, important information, notes, prices, and phone numbers.
• Add a dedicated Quick Post display-language setting with Japanese and English options.

0.4.1

• Follow the WordPress user language, with English source strings and a bundled Japanese translation.
• Clarify Post settings counts, tab purposes, and insertion method effects.
• Replace the duplicated Review and adjust controls with one persistent Review before applying tab.

0.4.0

• Add Front Matter post settings, preflight checks, three insertion methods, remote image import, a sample article, and AI authoring rules.