James Koster

@RafalTomal Yes, amongst other things; changing settings, creating custom widgets, post types, plugins. Anything really.

@jameskoster This is it. Love it! Would you have to prompt the AI assistant to make any content/design changes?

The last piece of the WP Shell prototype for this week: elevating AI to a first-class surface in WordPress. Not a sidebar widget. Not a modal. A persistent assistant panel that lives at the system level. Globally accessible, context-aware, and always one keystroke away.

Deployed my WP Shell prototype here: wp-shell.vercel.app There will be bugs. Probably many. Feel free to patch: github.com/jameskoster/wp…

A next step would be exploring how the assistant can do more than answer questions e.g. composing dashboards, creating custom widgets, assembling workspaces, and shaping the admin around what you're actually trying to get done. All that plus doing your bidding in the Editor.

This connects to the broader hypotheses behind WP Shell: WordPress should feel less like a collection of screens and more like a cohesive application. A first-class AI surface is part of that. An always-available layer that works with the shell, not inside one corner of it.

@RedDevilFanatix @dgtlchurch @SethRubenstein Come help us build the future of the Dashboard 🙂 github.com/WordPress/gute…

@dgtlchurch @jameskoster @SethRubenstein Same here. And I have a question, don't know if you can assist. Is it recommended to even build and refine an already existing feature, like the dashboard here? What happens when the wordpress team decide to update it?

One of the most interesting things about treating the WordPress Dashboard as a primary navigation surface – with richer, click-into-the-work widgets – is the recipes we can build and share for different site types. Four early examples 👇

A UI for managing Custom Post Types in Gutenberg, very cool! github.com/WordPress/gute…

Resize, reorder, dismiss, add new widgets from a catalog to create a navigation surface that suits your workflows.

Membership/Community: Pending applications, recent signups, MRR. Top discussions. Who's active in the forum(s), where they are, click to join them. The dashboard becomes a community pulse and a one-click route into every conversation.

@rizaardiyanto A high-level prototype centered on navigational UX in WordPress. More info here: x.com/jameskoster/st…

@jameskoster What is this? This looks so sick!

Continuing to explore the Dashboard-as-a-Launchpad idea. Editing an order Today in WP admin: Dashboard → Orders → find #1247 → open. Four surfaces to fix one shipping address. A Recent Orders dashboard widget shortens the loop to a single click.

@oandregal @AdmireTheWeb Also relevant: github.com/WordPress/gute…

@AdmireTheWeb x.com/jameskoster/st… may be of interest?

Anyone in the #radicalspeedmonth doing anything with notifications, plugins area and WP dashboard. Or anything legacy exploration?

Also working on a system for internal workspace navigation: A sidebar for primary sections, a horizontal nav for sub-sections, and drilldown/breadcrumb if any additional depth is necessary. Three composable layers. Workspaces opt into whichever they need.

@adamjfpickering @remkusdevries Also deployed here if you just want to play around with it: wp-shell.vercel.app

@jameskoster @remkusdevries Nice checking it out

Last week I began exploring some high-level prototypes for future of the WordPress admin. Not just a sidebar redesign, a rethink of the whole shell. How you move, multitask, and get things done across the product. Here's what's in it 🧵