ViroBuilder – AI Landing Page & Website Builder

ViroBuilder is an AI website builder for WordPress that designs complete landing pages from a one-sentence description. Type "a family dental practice in Boston focused on anxiety-free care" and watch the AI design the whole page live in front of you — layout, written copy, AI-generated images, and SEO markup — then refine it by clicking any element or simply telling the AI what to change. No templates. No drag-and-drop grind. No page-builder lock-in. Every page is designed from scratch for your business, and the result is a fast, standalone page stored as ordinary WordPress content. Try it before setup: the built-in demo gallery ships with ten complete demo pages — a dental clinic, law firm, restaurant, SaaS product, online store, and more — that open in the real editor with zero configuration, so you can feel exactly what you'll get before adding any API keys. ViroBuilder is free and uses your own API keys (BYOK): an Anthropic (Claude) key designs the pages, a Google AI (Gemini) key generates bespoke images, and an optional Pexels key provides stock-photo fallback. A guided setup wizard tests each key live, and keys are stored only in your own WordPress database. How it works

1. Describe your business in one sentence — the AI infers the industry, audience, and tone. Optionally add a location, phone, and brand color (or let the AI pick the palette).
2. Watch the AI design it live — the page builds itself in a real-time preview: layout, copy, and structure appear as they're written, and AI-generated images stream in afterwards.
3. Edit by chat or click — click any text, image, or link to change it instantly, or type instructions like "add a FAQ section" or "change the brand color to navy". Small edits apply in seconds.
4. Not feeling it? Try another take — one click regenerates the page with a completely different layout and styling, same business.
5. Publish — with one-click "set as homepage", automatic version history, and lead-capture forms that report to your dashboard.

Features

• AI page generation with a live preview. Watch the page design itself in real time — no spinner, no waiting blind.
• Demo gallery. Ten complete demo pages — one per layout style — you can open in the real editor before adding any API keys.
• AI-generated images. Bespoke photos generated for your business via the Gemini API and saved into your media library (with Pexels stock-photo fallback).
• Chat and click editor. Edit text, images, links, and colors visually, or request larger changes in plain language — small edits apply in seconds via targeted patches.
• Try another take. Regenerate any page with a different layout archetype in one click; ten structurally distinct layout styles.
• Version history. The last ten versions of every page are kept automatically and restorable from the editor.
• SEO built in. Meta description, Open Graph tags, Twitter Cards, and JSON-LD structured data on every page.
• Responsive layouts. Desktop, tablet, and phone breakpoints, previewable in the editor.
• Lead-capture forms. Submissions saved to your dashboard and emailed to you — "X new leads this week" at a glance.
• Standard output. Pages are self-contained HTML stored as ordinary WordPress content; deactivate the plugin and your pages keep working. No shortcode soup, no proprietary format.

Who it's for

• Small business owners who want a landing page without building it section by section.
• Freelancers and agencies who build sites for clients.
• WordPress users who want AI-assisted page creation inside WordPress.

Free tier (BYOK) The free version includes the full plugin. You provide your own Anthropic API key (for AI generation) and Pexels API key (for stock photos), and you pay Anthropic and Pexels directly for your own usage. Pro tier (coming soon) A paid tier is planned that would not require your own API keys. Features and pricing are still being finalized. Details will be posted at virodigital.net/virobuilder. External services ViroBuilder connects to the following third-party services to function: Anthropic API (api.anthropic.com) Used for AI-powered page design and chat-based editing. Your business description and page content are sent to Anthropic's servers for processing. Requires a user-provided API key. Privacy Policy | Terms of Service Google Gemini API (generativelanguage.googleapis.com) Used for AI image generation on generated pages. Image prompts derived from your business description are sent to Google's servers; generated images are saved into your WordPress media library. Requires a user-provided API key. Privacy Policy | Terms of Service Pexels API (api.pexels.com) Used as a fallback source of free stock photographs when AI image generation is unavailable. Image search queries are sent to Pexels; photos are saved into your media library. Requires a user-provided API key. Privacy Policy | Terms of Service Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com) Used only for typography on the public landing pages you generate and publish. Font files are requested by your site visitor's browser when they view a generated page; the plugin's admin screens and editor do not load any remote fonts. Because the generated page is your own published content, you may change or self-host these fonts at any time by editing the page. Privacy Policy All of these services are optional integrations that power the plugin's core function. The Anthropic, Google, and Pexels keys are provided by you and stored only in your own WordPress database. No data is collected or sent to Viro Digital LLC servers in the free tier — no tracking, no analytics, no telemetry. Content responsibility ViroBuilder drafts pages with AI, and AI-written copy is a starting point — not a statement of fact. The AI is instructed never to invent statistics, star ratings, awards, or brand endorsements, and any testimonial sections it creates are clearly labeled samples for you to replace with real customer quotes. You are responsible for reviewing every claim on a page before publishing: publishing fake reviews or ratings can violate consumer-protection law (for example, the FTC's rule on fake reviews and testimonials in the United States). The editor reminds you to check this before you publish. AI-generated images are created from your business description and saved to your media library. Review them before publishing, as you would any content on your site. Generated pages load fonts from Google Fonts by default. If your audience is in the EU, be aware that some European courts have treated remote font loading as a personal-data transfer under the GDPR; you can self-host the fonts (edit the page's font tags) or ask the chat editor to switch the page to system fonts. Lead-form submissions are stored only in your own WordPress database and fall under your site's privacy policy.

1.6.0

• NEW: Live streamed generation — watch your page build itself in a live preview while the AI writes it, instead of staring at a spinner.
• NEW: "🎲 Try another take" in the editor — one click regenerates the page from the same brief with a different layout and styling; your current version stays in Undo and Version history.
• NEW: Version history — the last 10 versions of every page are kept automatically and can be restored from the editor (⋯ More → Version history), surviving page reloads.
• NEW: Simpler create form — a business name and one descriptive sentence is all that's required; industry, audience, location, phone, and brand color are collapsed under "Add details". Industry auto-detects from your description.
• NEW: "✨ Let the AI choose" brand color (default) — the AI picks a palette that fits the business instead of asking you for a hex code.
• NEW: After publishing: one-click "Set as homepage" and "Create another page" actions right in the chat panel.
• NEW: The dashboard shows "📥 X new leads this week" when your forms have recent submissions.
• IMPROVED: All AI calls now share one streaming client (chat edits, generation, retakes).

1.5.0

• NEW: Demo gallery — ten complete, structurally distinct demo pages (SaaS, home services, dental, law, restaurant, photography, online store, fitness, coaching, real estate), one per layout style. Open any demo in the real editor and try everything with zero API keys and zero network calls; demo content is clearly labeled fictional sample copy.
• NEW: "Use this style" — generate your own page with the exact layout structure of any demo you like.
• NEW: First-run setup wizard — paste each API key and it's tested with a live API call before saving, with plain-language errors. No more failed generations from a mistyped key.
• NEW: "Test key" buttons on the AI Settings page for all three keys (works on saved keys too).
• IMPROVED: The create screen guides non-admin users to ask an administrator for key setup instead of dead-ending.

1.4.1

• LEGAL/TRUST: The AI is now explicitly forbidden from inventing verifiable claims — no fabricated client counts, review counts, star ratings, awards, certifications, or brand endorsements. Testimonial sections are generated as clearly-labeled samples to replace with real quotes.
• LEGAL/TRUST: JSON-LD structured data never includes ratings unless you provide real rating data (fabricated aggregateRating violates Google policy and consumer-protection law).
• NEW: Pre-publish accuracy check — the editor warns if sample testimonials are still on the page and reminds you to verify claims before going live.
• NEW: "Content responsibility" section in the plugin documentation covering AI copy accuracy, AI images, Google Fonts and the GDPR, and lead-form data.
• IMPROVED: Softened marketing language in the plugin description.

1.4.0

• FIX: Script tags are no longer stripped from generated pages — JSON-LD and animation code no longer appear as visible text. Pages are stored raw in post meta and rendered verbatim on a blank template (no KSES/content-filter pass).
• FIX: Sections can no longer render blank when a page's animation script fails — a progressive-enhancement guard keeps all content visible unless JavaScript is actually running (pages now work with JavaScript disabled too).
• FIX: Truncated AI responses are detected (stop_reason max_tokens) and fail with a clear error instead of saving a half-page; the generation output limit was raised to 32k tokens.
• NEW: AI-generated images via the Google Gemini API are the default image engine. Add a Google AI key in AI Settings; every image is generated from your business brief and saved into the media library — never hotlinked. Pexels remains as a silent fallback when a key is saved.
• NEW: Progressive image loading — pages render immediately with placeholders and images swap in as each one finishes generating.
• NEW: "Regenerate with AI" option in the image swap popup; Pexels search shows only when a Pexels key is configured.
• IMPROVED: Chat edits are patch-based — the AI returns targeted search/replace changes instead of regenerating the whole document, so small copy or color changes complete in seconds instead of minutes (with automatic retry and full-regeneration fallback for structural changes).
• IMPROVED: Chat edits stream live progress into the chat panel.
• FIX: The image swap popup no longer opens clipped under the top toolbar — popups anchor to the clicked element, flip above/below, and stay fully visible on all device previews.
• FIX: Chat panel messages no longer overlap or clip as the conversation grows.
• IMPROVED: Every chat failure shows a readable message with a one-click Retry action.

1.2.0

• FOCUS: ViroBuilder is now AI-only — the plugin designs pages, it doesn't assemble them
• NEW: Standalone "Create New Page" screen — describe your business and generate, no editor canvas needed
• REMOVED: The legacy drag-and-drop builder, widget library, and section templates (the AI designer replaces them)
• IMPROVED: Editor opens fullscreen (no admin chrome), chat input no longer clipped, cleaner top bar
• IMPROVED: AI pages self-heal — any full-HTML page is detected and routed to the chat editor automatically
• FIX: "Edit with ViroBuilder" now always opens the correct chat editor
• Roughly half the plugin's code removed — faster, lighter, and sharper in focus

1.1.0

• NEW: AI Designer pipeline — generates complete, bespoke HTML pages (not template assembly)
• NEW: Chat-based editor — edit pages by talking to the AI or clicking directly
• NEW: Visual editing — click text to rewrite, images to swap from Pexels, links to update
• NEW: Pexels stock photo integration — auto-matched industry photos
• NEW: SEO — meta tags, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, and JSON-LD structured data
• NEW: Three-breakpoint responsive design (desktop, tablet, mobile)
• NEW: Parallax scroll effects and entrance animations
• NEW: Image selection tracking — chat edits target the image you clicked
• NEW: Progress overlay with staged design steps during generation
• NEW: BYOK / Pro tier architecture with cost transparency
• NEW: ViroBuilder brand identity (V-sparkle logo, dark theme UI)
• FIX: Timeout handling extended to 300s for complex generations
• FIX: Error handling catches Throwable (not just Exception)
• FIX: Non-JSON response handling in JavaScript
• FIX: Double-load guard prevents fatal errors on plugin update
• FIX: Section background rendering (bg_type was missing)

1.0.2

• Style preset system (Nimbus, Clarity, Pulse)
• AI copy generation with Claude Sonnet 4.6
• Recipe-based page assembly for SaaS and Health industries
• Drag-and-drop editor with widget system
• Form builder with submission management

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Drag-and-drop page builder
• Section and widget template library
• Frontend rendering engine
• Gutenberg integration