Team conversations inside WordPress. Channels, threads and tasks, right next to your posts.
Illustration: Flurfunk in full screen. On the left the sidebar with views, channels and posts; in the middle the threads of the Editorial channel; on the right an open task thread with a photo gallery. While you watch, Jonas Weber replies, the reply count goes up, a photo opens in the lightbox and Ana Klein ticks the task off.
What it does
Flurfunk lives in wp-admin. Threads sit next to the posts they are about, tasks have a board, and everyone gets told what concerns them.
A thread has a title, replies, files and cards. Attach it to a post and it shows up in the block editor’s Conversations panel and the posts list.
Any thread can be a task: Open, In progress, Question or Done, with a due date and up to 20 responsible people. Move cards by drag and drop or with Alt+Arrow keys.
Up to 50 files per message, uploaded or picked from the media library. Images become a gallery with a lightbox; uploads only enter the media library when someone adds them.
Everything lands behind the bell. Mail right away or as a daily summary, Web Push to browsers and phones, quiet hours, pause, levels per channel and “remind me”.
Type / for commands. /post inserts a post as a card, plugins add their own. A card keeps a snapshot of its data and can be refreshed on request.
/flurfunk/ shows the app without admin bar or menu. Add it to the home screen on iPhone or Android, and push opens the thread right there.
Each channel says what the team and what guests see: everything, only threads about their own posts, or nothing. Guest authors talk about their texts without seeing internal discussions.
Own database tables, no external service. One JSON format, flurfunk/1, for export and import with or without files. Works with WordPress’s privacy export and erase tools.
Tasks
Any thread can be a task. The board shows the tasks you can see in four columns; a click opens the thread in a drawer over the columns.
Illustration: a task board with the columns Open, In progress, Question and Done. A card moves through all four columns, then its thread opens in a drawer.
Notifications
Mentions, tasks, due dates and replies in your threads reach you in the app, by mail and by Web Push. Each person decides how much.
Illustration: a phone lock screen receives a push notification from Flurfunk that Ana Klein mentioned you, next to the notification settings with a daily mail summary, push on and quiet hours from 22:00 to 07:00.
For developers
No build step and no framework. Register a slash command with cards, attach threads to your own objects, embed threads on any admin screen, or post from scripts and CI through the REST API.
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add_action( 'init', function () {
flurfunk_register_provider( 'myplugin/report', array(
'command' => 'report',
'label' => 'Report',
'hint' => 'Insert a report card',
'search' => fn ( string $q, int $user_id ) => array(
array( 'ref' => array( 'id' => 12 ), 'title' => 'Q3', 'subtitle' => 'Draft' ),
),
'snapshot' => fn ( array $ref, int $user_id ) => array(
'title' => 'Q3',
'metric' => array( 'value' => '1,284', 'label' => 'views' ),
'url' => admin_url( 'admin.php?page=reports&id=' . (int) $ref['id'] ),
),
'can' => fn ( int $user_id ) => user_can( $user_id, 'edit_posts' ),
) );
} );curl -u "login:application password" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"channel":"general","title":"Deploy","body":"Release 2.4.0 is live."}' \
https://example.com/wp-json/flurfunk/v1/threadsflurfunk_register_target() attaches threads to products, customers or anything else.Flurfunk.mountRefs(), mountChannel() and mountTarget() embed threads on admin screens.wp flurfunk export and import move everything, files included.Quick start
Needs WordPress 6.5+, PHP 8.1+ and MySQL or MariaDB. Web Push needs HTTPS and PHP’s OpenSSL extension.
cd wp-content/plugins
git clone https://github.com/worldoptimizer/flurfunk.git flurfunkOr upload a release zip under Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
wp plugin activate flurfunkActivation creates the tables and a #general channel for the team.
Settings → Flurfunk: name, logo, colours, who counts as team or guest, and the channels. Then open Flurfunk in the admin menu.
FAQ
Yes. Flurfunk is free software under the GPL-2.0-or-later. The source is on GitHub.
No. Flurfunk keeps everything in its own tables in your WordPress database and needs no external service, library or API key. Mail goes through wp_mail(). Web Push is encrypted by the plugin itself and sent directly to the browsers’ push services, which needs HTTPS and PHP’s OpenSSL extension.
Yes. When the OpenStation plugin is active, Flurfunk adds a desktop icon and OpenStation’s dock shows the same unread badge as the menu item. Without OpenStation it works just the same in plain wp-admin. The flurfunk_openstation_icon filter moves or removes the icon.
Not unless a channel allows it. Every channel has one level for the team and one for guests: all, own-posts or none. An internal channel is set to none for guests. In an own-posts channel each guest only sees the threads about their own posts, and the team sees a hint on threads guests can read.
The data stays in your database. Flurfunk takes part in WordPress’s Export Personal Data and Erase Personal Data tools: erasing replaces a person’s messages with a note and removes their read state, mentions, task assignments, notifications, push subscriptions and preferences, so conversations stay readable for everyone else. When a user is deleted, their personal data is removed as well. Privacy in detail
Yes. wp flurfunk export bundle/ --files writes everything, files included, in the flurfunk/1 format; wp flurfunk import bundle/ reads it on the other site. Moving a site
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