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Masthead self-updates

The WordPress editorial suite — a coordinator plugin that unifies Edit Ledger, Rewrites, and the WordPress AI plugin behind a single admin screen.

by Alan Smodic · github.com/alansmodic/masthead

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Install

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

wp plugin install https://github.com/alansmodic/masthead/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

Ships its own WordPress updater (built-in updater), so new versions show up under Dashboard → Updates.

Readme github.com/alansmodic/masthead ↗

The WordPress editorial suite.

Masthead is a lightweight coordinator plugin that unifies Edit Ledger, Rewrites, and the WordPress AI plugin into a single admin screen — and wires them together with cross-plugin integrations that only activate when both sides are present.

Suite Modules

Plugin What it does
Edit Ledger Revision history, media change tracking, and AI summaries
Rewrites Staged revisions, publication checklist, and scheduled publishing
WordPress AI AI-powered content review, alt text generation, content classification, and more

Each plugin works standalone. Masthead adds the glue.

Cross-Plugin Integrations

Edit Ledger + Rewrites

  • When a staged revision is submitted via Rewrites, Masthead automatically calls Edit Ledger's summarize-revision ability and attaches the AI summary to the approval panel
  • Reviewers see a plain-English summary of what changed before opening the diff

WordPress AI + Rewrites

  • Surfaces WordPress AI's Review Notes as a checklist item before a staged revision can be published
  • AI review status shown directly in the Rewrites publication checklist

Masthead's Own Features

Masthead also ships a few features not bundled in the standalone plugins:

  • Suite Settings Screen — configure all modules from one place
  • Module Registry — detect which suite plugins are active and surface their status
  • GitHub Updater — auto-update all suite plugins from their GitHub releases
  • Editorial Calendar — visual drag-and-drop publishing calendar (separate plugin in the suite)

Requirements

Installation

  1. Upload the masthead folder to /wp-content/plugins/
  2. Activate Masthead in the WordPress admin
  3. Go to Masthead → Settings to see the suite status
  4. Install and activate the suite plugins you want

Development

The dev environment uses WordPress Studio with WordPress trunk.

# Site: smodiclaw-trunk
# URL: http://localhost:8883
# WP: 7.1-alpha

studio site list
studio wp --path ~/Studio/smodiclaw-trunk plugin list

Build assets (Masthead has no JS build step — assets are plain JS):

# WordPress AI plugin requires a build step:
cd ~/Studio/smodiclaw-trunk/wp-content/plugins/ai
npm ci && npm run build

Project Board

Development tracked on Fizzy.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later