Name: Antimanual Builder – Truly AI Powered Visual Page Builder
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Spider Themes

Antimanual Builder is a truly AI-powered, drag-and-drop visual page builder that brings a Replit/Lovable-style website building experience to WordPress. Describe the page you want in plain language and get a complete, editable layout back — then keep refining it by chat or by hand.

It’s a full-screen design canvas for native WordPress pages: no Gutenberg, no separate “builder” post type, and no lock-in. Every page you create is a regular WordPress page post, so your content stays portable and works with your theme, permalinks, and other plugins.

Build pages with AI. Generate whole layouts from a prompt, ask for changes conversationally, and migrate existing pages with AI assistance — all inside the editor. You have two ways to power the AI:

WordPress AI Connectors (WordPress 7.0+) — point Builder at the AI provider built into WordPress core for one-shot page generation, with nothing extra to install.
The free Antimanual companion plugin — connect your own provider and API key to unlock the live editor chat, knowledge base, and conversational refinement. Works with OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, and OpenCode Zen.

Or build entirely by hand. Every page is fully editable with drag-and-drop layout tools, inline canvas editing, reusable components, header/footer templates, and a responsive live preview. Manual editing and page migration work standalone — no API key and no external service required. Add AI when you want it; Builder keeps working fully without it.

Build With AI

Generate from a prompt — Describe the page you want and get a complete, fully editable layout back inside the editor.
Refine conversationally — Ask for changes in chat and watch the page update, section by section.
AI-assisted migration — Redesign or restructure an existing WordPress page with AI help.
Two AI sources — Use the built-in WordPress AI Connectors (WordPress 7.0+) for one-shot generation, or the free Antimanual companion plugin for the full chat and knowledge-base experience.
Bring your own provider — Through Antimanual, works with OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, and OpenCode Zen.
Your keys, your control — Builder reads the provider, model, and API key you configure in the Antimanual companion plugin; keys are never managed or exposed by Builder itself.

Build Visually

Full-screen visual editor — A distraction-free canvas for native WordPress pages, with no Gutenberg required.
Drag-and-drop & inline editing — Arrange sections and edit text directly on the canvas, entirely without AI.
Structured block system — Layout, content, and advanced blocks power both manual editing and generated pages.
Responsive preview — Check layouts in Desktop, Tablet, Large Mobile, and Small Mobile widths before you publish.
Code editor tabs — Inspect and tweak HTML, CSS, and JavaScript alongside the visual canvas.
Undo/Redo — Full editing history with keyboard shortcuts.
Version history — Every save keeps the previous version, restorable from a History panel.
Crash recovery — Unsaved changes are backed up in your browser and offered back if the tab closes before you save.

Reuse & Scale

Component library — Save any section as a reusable component and insert it on any page, with live previews, search, and category filters.
Push updates to components — Update a saved component and roll the change out to the pages that use it, while leaving hand-edited copies alone.
Header & footer templates — Build and assign reusable templates through a visual picker with live thumbnails.
Design Defaults — Set the tone, design system, typography, spacing, corners, and brand colors applied to new pages.

Bring In Existing Content

Page migration — Migrate an existing WordPress page into Builder as a faithful, fully editable copy — replace the original or keep a copy.
CDN libraries — Attach external CSS and JavaScript libraries from a CDN, controlling load position and async/defer behavior.
HTML & ZIP import (Pro) — Import a single HTML file with its assets, or analyze and create whole pages from a ZIP project, with chunked upload and a progress bar for large sites.
Dynamic content binding (Pro) — Bind a section to your real site content so it updates automatically, or turn a section into a live navigation menu.

How It Works

Open AM Builder from the WordPress admin menu and create a new page (or migrate an existing one).
Build your layout with drag-and-drop sections, saved components, and inline editing — or, with the Antimanual plugin active, describe it in chat.
Preview across device sizes, then publish. The page is a standard WordPress page, live on your site with your theme’s header and footer.

Generated and imported assets are stored in wp-content/uploads/antimanual-builder/.

External Services

This plugin connects to the following external services.

OpenAI API

Powers AI chatbot, knowledge base embeddings, and all content generation features when OpenAI is the selected provider. Your WordPress post content (for KB indexing), visitor chat messages, and admin-configured prompts are sent to OpenAI via your own API key. Data is transmitted only when you trigger an AI action or a visitor interacts with the chatbot/search.

OpenAI — Terms — Privacy

Google Gemini API

One of Antimanual’s supported AI providers. The same categories of data described for OpenAI above are sent to Google Gemini via your own API key, only when Gemini is the active provider.

Google AI (Gemini) — Terms — Privacy

Additional AI Providers

Depending on the provider you configure, Antimanual may also send your WordPress post content (for knowledge base indexing where supported), visitor chat messages, and admin-configured prompts to Anthropic Claude, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, or OpenCode Zen only when you trigger an AI action or a visitor interacts with the chatbot or AI search.

Spider Themes Notice Service

The plugin periodically fetches an admin notice from Spider Themes servers to display important announcements to site administrators. Only a standard HTTP GET request is made — no personal data, site content, or visitor information is ever transmitted.

Spider Themes — Terms — Privacy

Placehold.co (Placeholder Images)

AI-generated pages may include placeholder images served by Placehold.co.

What it does: Provides temporary placeholder images (solid-color rectangles with optional text) that appear in AI-generated page layouts until the user replaces them with real images.
What is sent: The visitor’s browser requests images from placehold.co when viewing a page that still contains placeholder image URLs. Only the requested image dimensions and optional label text are included in the URL — no user data or personal information is transmitted by the plugin itself.
When: Only when a generated page contains unreplaced placeholder image URLs and a visitor (or the admin previewing the page) loads that page.

Fonts

The plugin does not load fonts from Google Fonts, Bunny Fonts, Adobe Typekit, Font Awesome, or any other third-party font CDN.

The editor UI uses the operating system’s native font stack (-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif).
AI-generated pages are instructed to use the same system font stack. The AI is explicitly told not to add @import rules or <link> tags pointing at remote font hosts.
As a defensive measure, any @import or <link> that references a known font CDN is stripped from saved page CSS/HTML on the server before it is persisted, even if the AI model ignores the prompt.
If a user imports their own HTML (e.g. via the ZIP importer), the original markup — including any font references the user authored themselves — is preserved as-is, because that content is owned by the user, not generated by the plugin.

Security / Arbitrary Code

The builder does not support arbitrary PHP, JavaScript, or CSS insertion. There is no code-editor UI that accepts raw CSS, JS, or PHP and no REST endpoint that persists author-supplied stylesheets or scripts.

No arbitrary CSS: Page CSS is generated programmatically from block style values and from a structured styleMap of selector/property pairs collected through the visual editor’s form controls. The plugin does not store free-form CSS authored by users.
No arbitrary JavaScript: Only hard-coded interactive scripts that ship with the plugin (tabs, accordion, counter, etc.) are emitted, and they are gated on the corresponding block being present on the page. There is no input surface for user-supplied JavaScript.
No arbitrary PHP: There is no PHP code input in the UI and no REST endpoint that accepts or executes PHP supplied by users.
REST sanitization: The customCss / customJs request parameters are stripped from all save endpoints (/wp-json/ambld/v1/pages, /components, /templates). Inline <style>, <script>, and on*= event-handler attributes are removed from renderedHtml and from imported documents before storage.
Render-time defence-in-depth: Frontend output is passed through wp_kses() with a strict allowlist that excludes <script> and <style>, so any data that may have been persisted by older versions of the plugin cannot be served.
Legacy cleanup: On upgrade, the plugin removes any _ambld_custom_css / _ambld_custom_js post meta and any per-post src/post-{ID}.css / .js files left behind by earlier releases.

Source Code

The human-readable source code for all compiled JavaScript and CSS assets is included in the src/ directory of this plugin.

Source files: src/editor/, src/admin/, src/page-editor/
Build tool: wp-scripts (WordPress webpack configuration)
Build command: npm install && npm run build
Compiled output: build/editor.js, build/admin.js, build/page-editor.js and their corresponding CSS files

The webpack.config.js at the plugin root defines three entry points. All dependencies are managed via package.json.