Ops Center

Ops Center is a builder-aware WordPress admin bar command center for WordPress, Bricks Builder, and Etch Builder sites.

The packaged folder is unified-ops-center, but the plugin name shown in WordPress remains Ops Center.

Description

Ops Center provides a centralized workflow panel for administrators, content editors, and site builders. It gives allowed users quick access to current content, templates, patterns, enabled content types, builder resources, site architecture, installed plugins, and managed quick links from the WordPress admin bar.

The plugin detects the active builder context and adapts editor links and resource links for WordPress, Bricks, or Etch. Builder detection is shown in Ops Center → Settings because it is informational rather than a front-end panel action.

Features

• Builder-aware behavior for WordPress, Bricks, and Etch.
• Current content shortcuts.
• Template and pattern browser.
• Enabled content type browser.
• Searchable admin bar panel.
• All, Mine, and New filters for the current list.
• Builder-specific resource links.
• Global Quick Links manager.
• Site Architecture section.
• Optional Plugins title-bar button.
• Role-based access settings.
• Administrator-managed light and dark palettes with a configurable base font size.
• Optional role-based personal appearance overrides with live preview and reset controls.
• Keyboard-friendly, WCAG AA-oriented interface.

Supported Builders

• WordPress
• Bricks Builder
• Etch Builder

Accessibility

Ops Center is designed with WCAG AA in mind:

• Keyboard-focusable controls.
• Visible focus states.
• Semantic buttons for filtering and list actions.
• ARIA labels where visual text alone is not enough.
• Accessible labels for icon-only controls.
• Contrast-conscious light and dark interface styles.
• Non-actionable builder detection kept in Settings instead of the admin bar panel.

Requirements

• WordPress 7.0.2 or newer.
• Tested up to the WordPress 7.0 release line.
• PHP 8.3 or newer.
• A user role allowed in Ops Center settings.

Installation

1. Upload the provided zip from Plugins → Add Plugin → Upload Plugin, or upload the unified-ops-center folder to wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate Ops Center.
3. Go to Ops Center → Settings.
4. Confirm the detected builder, enabled sections, content types, and allowed roles.
5. Configure Ops Center appearance defaults and choose whether selected roles may personalize them.
6. Go to Ops Center → Resources to manage resource links and quick links.

Changelog

1.9.4

• Fixed site appearance palette values so color changes persist after saving.
• Updated settings checkboxes and radio controls to use the configured Ops Center accent color.
• Matched sidebar list spacing to the existing navigation button spacing.

1.9.3

• Refreshes the Media inventory through AJAX whenever its pane opens.
• Excludes Media from the general discovery cache so recent uploads appear promptly.
• Uses official Gutenberg SVG paths for video, audio, PDF, and other document previews.

1.9.2

• Added compact 45×45 previews to Media inventory rows.
• Added attachment ID, formatted file size, and MIME type metadata.
• Added an accessible Copy URL action with inline feedback.

1.9.1

• Added a short-lived cache for expensive template, pattern, content-type, and Site Architecture discovery.
• Invalidates discovery data when relevant content, terms, themes, plugin state, ACF field groups, or Ops Center settings change.
• Reuses the stable plugin settings index across admin requests instead of rebuilding it unnecessarily.
• Documented safe Settings API, admin routing, core-hook, and transient-cleanup handling for Plugin Check.
• Retains WordPress 7.0.2 as the minimum required security baseline while using the required major/minor Tested up to metadata format.

1.9.0

• Added native detection and management support for custom post types created in Etch.
• Newly created Etch post types automatically appear in Content Types without overriding later user choices.
• Added Etch-managed post types to Site Architecture.

1.8.2

• Fixed light-mode contrast for the Ops Center brand icon.
• Corrected navigation hover, focus, and active colors so they follow the selected light or dark palette.
• Standardized selected controls on the same accent blue in both modes.
• Fixed pattern names so they scale with the configured panel font size.

1.8.1

• Added separate text and heading font-weight controls for site-wide and permitted personal appearance settings.
• Replaced the small collapsible-section text caret with a larger SVG indicator.
• Set calmer default weights of 460 for text and 600 for headings.

1.8.0

• Stabilized plugin Settings buttons with a finalized admin menu and plugin action-link index shared by initial rendering and AJAX row refreshes.
• Invalidated and rebuilt plugin settings destinations when plugin activation state changes.
• Added an opt-in setting to keep the native Edit in Etch and Edit with Bricks admin-bar links; these remain hidden by default.
• Made builder detection more prominent with bundled official Etch and Bricks marks.
• Bundled the Inter variable font for a consistent, local interface typeface.
• Restyled the dark appearance with neutral charcoal surfaces and blue reserved primarily for active and focus states.
• Added administrator-managed light and dark palettes and a configurable base font size.
• Added role-based personal appearance overrides with live preview and reset controls.
• Reordered settings into clearer navigation, permissions, cleanup, and appearance groups.
• Added file-specific asset cache keys so appearance updates load immediately after replacing an existing 1.8.0 build.
• Applied the configurable base font size consistently across every admin-bar panel text role.
• Added complete option, transient, and user-meta cleanup on uninstall.
• Raised the minimum supported WordPress version and Tested up to compatibility to WordPress 7.0.2.

1.7.7

• Fixed Plugin Check internationalization findings by adding translator comments and ordered placeholders.

1.7.6

• Added AJAX refresh for individual plugin rows after activation/deactivation.
• Settings buttons can appear immediately after activation when available.
• Rebinds refreshed plugin action buttons without requiring a page reload.

1.7.5

• Enabled the Plugins title-bar button by default.
• Added All and Configurable filters to the Plugins browser.
• Improved plugin settings detection from registered admin menu/submenu entries.
• Polished the Show Plugins setting and plugin row layout.

1.7.4

• Settings links now only appear for plugins that expose a real settings/configuration action.
• Plugin action buttons now use a consistent height.
• Removed the Tools section and WPCodeBox-specific detection.
• Moved Plugins to an optional title-bar button next to Quick Links.
• Removed active/inactive state text from plugin titles.

1.7.0

• Optional installed plugin listing.
• Plugin Settings, Activate, and Deactivate actions.

1.6.0

• Renamed the detected-tool workflow into Site Architecture.
• Grouped architecture items by type: Post Types, Taxonomies, Field Groups, and Option Pages.
• Added counts to architecture category labels and headings.
• Hid provider labels unless multiple providers contribute to the same category.

1.5.0

• Added collapsible Ops Center sidebar sections with saved section state.
• Added Detected Tools inventory browsers for ACF, Meta Box, ACPT, and JetEngine.
• Added edit and add-new actions for supported framework-managed post types, taxonomies, field groups, and option pages.

1.4.0

• Moved Builder Assets above Content Types.
• Standardized title bar action button sizing.
• Added pattern category labels to the Patterns list when available.

1.3.1

• Moved Quick Links to the panel title bar when enabled.
• Kept builder resources in the panel title bar and ensured the resource pane title matches the detected builder.
• Added bottom-of-list links for adding more resources and quick links in Ops Center Resources settings.

1.2.1

• Removed the WordPress Command Palette shortcut from settings and the panel title bar.
• Kept the centered title-bar panel layout introduced in 1.2.0 without the disruptive command palette handoff.

1.2.0

• Added a full-width panel title bar with Ops Center branding and header actions.
• Moved Settings and Resources access to the title bar.
• Removed Settings from the left column.
• Centered the panel in the viewport and locked background scrolling while open.
• Improved small-screen panel behavior.