D8 Termline

D8 Termline adds a compact, keyboard-operated console to your site’s frontend. Visitors can browse categories, list and search published posts, and read articles as plain text without leaving the page.

Commands include help, about, clear, ls, search, categories, posts and cat. Use Tab for completion, arrow keys for session history and Escape to close. Developers can register additional commands using documented PHP hooks and a JavaScript API.

This is a public-content browser, not a server terminal. It provides no shell, PHP editor, arbitrary code execution, file manager or database editing. All scripts and styles are bundled locally. It makes no third-party service requests and includes no telemetry, tracking or paid feature gates. Requests use your site’s public WordPress REST API. Command history is kept in memory only and disappears on page reload.

The appearance is inspired by classic desktop terminals.

Source and developer documentation: https://github.com/kzorluoglu/d8-termline