Add-ons, one click away
A new Plugins screen installs the free Shilpi add-ons without leaving the dashboard.
What shipped
- New Shilpi → Plugins screen: a directory of the free Shilpi add-ons, with install and activate in one click. Each plugin then updates itself from shilpibuilder.com through WordPress’s own
Update URI mechanism — no licence key, no ZIP handling.
- Fixed Code Hub widening the whole admin page. One long line of code inside the editor was stretching the snippet card, the workspace and finally the page itself; the sideways scroll now stays inside the editor where it belongs.
Plugins can teach the agent
Companion plugins can now add their own agent skill and routing rule while they are active.
What shipped
shilpi_skill_catalog: an active plugin can provide a readonly, code-backed skill that appears in Shilpi → Skills, the MCP discovery prompt and the get_skill schema — with no database record left behind on deactivation.shilpi_agent_instruction_rules: a plugin can place a concise conditional routing rule inside the numbered “Instructions for the agent” brief.
One chevron, everywhere
The Builder's disclosure controls share a single outlined icon instead of mixing glyphs and CSS triangles.
What shipped
- Elements groups, Structure rows, Inspector sections and the responsive and state selectors now share the same geometry, stroke weight, alignment and expanded-state rotation.
The canvas shows the document you opened
Fixed the Builder canvas showing the Shop archive for every template when the Shop is the front page.
What shipped
- Authenticated canvas requests now win the final
template_include decision and render through Shilpi’s own document renderer.
- Ordinary WooCommerce and front-end routes are unchanged.
The storefront has left the theme
Every line of WooCommerce code now ships in the free Shilpi WooCommerce Kit plugin.
What shipped
- The component runtime, 24 builder elements and the 60KB commerce skin — about 3,200 lines — moved out of the theme and into Shilpi WooCommerce Kit. Install that plugin before updating a store.
- New extension points so a plugin can do what only the theme could before:
shilpi_element_shortcode_translators, shilpi_element_groups and shilpi_known_css_classes.
- The
manage_woocommerce MCP tool now comes from the plugin, registered through shilpi_mcp_tools like any other tool.
The latest Shilpi release
36 MCP tools now live, with the latest Shilpi improvements and fixes.
What shipped
- 36 scoped MCP tools are available to connected agents.
- Latest maintenance improvements and fixes for the Shilpi builder workflow.
Beyond the page
SEO, WooCommerce, menus, taxonomies, new templates, site manifests and whole-site import join the AI workflow.
What shipped
- 34 scoped MCP tools.
- SEO metadata through supported SEO plugins.
- WooCommerce storefront operations and templates.
- Menu and taxonomy management.
- Search, 404 and Loop templates.
- Site manifests, whole-site import and managed script load order.
Beyond the page
SEO, WooCommerce, menus, taxonomies, new templates, site manifests and whole-site import join the AI workflow.
What shipped
- 34 scoped MCP tools.
- SEO metadata through supported SEO plugins.
- WooCommerce storefront operations and templates.
- Menu and taxonomy management.
- Search, 404 and Loop templates.
- Site manifests, whole-site import and managed script load order.
The AI release
OAuth sign-in, downloadable agent skills and a larger MCP surface.
- 30 MCP tools, up from 21.
- OAuth sign-in for MCP clients.
- Downloadable shilpi-theme and wordpress-core skills.
- Authenticated server test and improved import history.
Security you can close
Temporary permissions, reversible hardening and safer executable code.
- Central Security screen for temporary permissions.
- Reversible WordPress hardening controls.
- Sanitised SVG uploads.
- PHP snippets syntax-checked before activation.
Elements you can switch off
Active, Hidden and Disabled states across all 83 builder elements.
- Three element states across the palette.
- Bulk controls for groups and the full palette.
- Improved builder element search.
Performance choices, stated honestly
Flexible CSS delivery, production assets and stronger local-font controls.
- Inline or external fingerprinted CSS delivery.
- Production assets panel.
- Block Google Fonts requests.
- Improved local font manager.
Forms, mail and submissions
Native forms, stored submissions, spam protection and mail delivery tools.
- Native forms with stored submissions.
- Mail settings, SMTP and delivery log.
- Configurable submission retention.
Templates and dynamic data
WordPress-native templates, dynamic tokens, parts and query loops.
- Header, Footer, Single, Archive and Part templates.
- Shortcodes for reusable parts.
- Dynamic post, author, site and ACF tokens.
- Query loops with native pagination.
Shilpi ships
The first public release of the AI-native WordPress theme and visual builder.
- HTML, CSS and JavaScript storage model.
- Visual builder and structure tree.
- Design variables and global classes.
- Code Hub for managed site code.