William Research Admin Agent

Description

William Research Admin Agent adds a conversational AI assistant to WordPress Admin. Administrators connect their own Anthropic, Google Gemini, or Ollama provider and choose which WordPress tools the assistant may use.

The Free edition focuses on safe workflows:

• Inspect posts, plugins, themes, users, WooCommerce state, and selected security-plugin state.
• Navigate WordPress Admin from natural-language requests.
• Create WordPress drafts without automatically publishing them.
• Stream responses and tool progress in the admin interface.
• Store conversation history and execution metadata in WordPress.
• Disable tools that a site does not need.
• Encrypt provider credentials using WordPress security keys.

The plugin requires a WordPress administrator account with the manage_options capability. It does not expose the assistant to public site visitors.

Source code and build

The human-readable source for the compiled admin interface and the packaging scripts is maintained at https://github.com/williamduong/wp-admin-agent . To rebuild the JavaScript, run npm ci and npm run build; the packaging steps are documented in the repository’s development guide.

External services

The plugin does not contact an AI provider until an administrator selects and configures one. Sending a chat request can transmit the administrator’s prompt, recent conversation context, registered tool schemas, tool results, and relevant WordPress site information to the selected provider so it can answer the request and select tools.

Anthropic API

• Purpose: Generate assistant responses and tool calls when Anthropic is selected.
• Data sent: Prompts, conversation context, tool schemas, tool results, and relevant site context.
• Terms: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms
• Privacy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

Google Gemini API

• Purpose: Generate assistant responses and tool calls when Gemini is selected.
• Data sent: Prompts, conversation context, tool schemas, tool results, and relevant site context.
• Terms: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms
• Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Ollama

• Purpose: Generate assistant responses and tool calls on an administrator-configured Ollama server.
• Data sent: The same assistant context described above, to the URL configured by the administrator.
• The site owner is responsible for the privacy and security policy of that server.
• Project information: https://ollama.com/

Iconify API

• Purpose: Search for icon candidates only when an administrator requests an icon search.
• Data sent: The search term.
• API terms: https://iconify.design/docs/api/
• Privacy: https://iconify.design/privacy/

RSS publishers

• Purpose: Fetch a selected public RSS feed only when an administrator requests current news or feed content.
• Data sent: A normal HTTP request from the WordPress server. The publisher receives standard request metadata such as IP address and user agent.
• The plugin identifies the selected feed before it is requested. Built-in presets may contact these publishers:
• Ars Technica (Condé Nast): Terms https://www.condenast.com/user-agreement — Privacy https://www.condenast.com/privacy-policy
• TechCrunch: Terms https://techcrunch.com/terms-of-service/ — Privacy https://techcrunch.com/privacy-policy/
• The Verge (Vox Media): Terms https://www.voxmedia.com/legal/terms-of-use — Privacy https://www.voxmedia.com/legal/privacy-notice
• WIRED (Condé Nast): Terms https://www.condenast.com/user-agreement — Privacy https://www.condenast.com/privacy-policy
• ScienceDaily: Terms https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms.htm — Privacy https://www.sciencedaily.com/privacy.htm
• Phys.org (Science X): Terms https://sciencex.com/help/terms/ — Privacy https://sciencex.com/help/privacy/
• Nature: Terms https://www.nature.com/info/terms-and-conditions — Privacy https://www.nature.com/info/privacy
• NASA: Privacy policy and important notices https://www.nasa.gov/privacy/
• European Space Agency: Terms https://www.esa.int/Services/Terms_and_conditions — Privacy https://www.esa.int/Services/Privacy_notice
• Google News: Terms https://policies.google.com/terms — Privacy https://policies.google.com/privacy
• For a custom RSS URL supplied by the administrator, the terms and privacy policy of that selected publisher apply.

Freemius

• Purpose: Optional opt-in telemetry and account management for the Free plugin. The Free plugin does not discover, download, install, or update Pro.
• Data sent: Only after administrator consent, Freemius may receive site, plugin, administrator, and diagnostic metadata described in its privacy policy. Skipping opt-in keeps the Free plugin usable.
• Pro distribution: The separately distributed Pro plugin is purchased outside WordPress Admin and installed manually by an administrator. Licensing and Pro updates begin only after Pro has been installed.
• Terms: https://freemius.com/terms/
• Privacy: https://freemius.com/privacy/

Installation

1. Upload the william-research-admin-agent directory to /wp-content/plugins/, or install an official release.
2. Activate William Research Admin Agent through the Plugins screen.
3. Open Settings → William Research Admin Agent.
4. Select and configure Anthropic, Gemini, or Ollama.
5. Test the provider connection.
6. Review enabled tools before using the assistant.