For site owners
Describe the tool you want with your AI tools like Claude. Drop it into your WordPress site.
If you run a WordPress site yourself, a real-estate listing site, a recipe blog, a coaching practice, a small SaaS landing page, DSGo Apps lets you add custom tools (calculators, quizzes, widgets, member portals) without hiring a developer. Build them inside wp-admin with AI, or paste a page you already made in Claude or ChatGPT. The plugin keeps each app sandboxed, so a broken app can’t break your site.
What this is for
The bespoke widget you’ve been putting off.
You know the one. A calculator for your industry. A quiz that filters your products. A nicer pricing page than your theme gives you. The thing every generic plugin almost does, until it doesn’t. DSGo Apps is for those.
Calculators tied to your data.
Mortgage calculators on real-estate listings. TDEE calculators on fitness pages. Tax-bracket lookups. ROI estimators. Each one reads the post it’s on, so the numbers reflect your content, not a generic widget.
Filters and finders for your archive.
A recipe filter that reads your post taxonomy. A product finder that crosses your categories. A “find a stylist” widget that pulls from your team page. Your content stays in WordPress; the widget gives it a smarter front door.
Landing-page interactives.
Quizzes, lead magnets, pricing toggles, configurators, the kind of thing you’d normally embed from Typeform or Outgrow. Build it once, host it in your own site, own the data the visitor enters.
Two ways to get an app
Build it in wp-admin, or paste one you already have.
You don’t need a terminal, a Vercel account, or a build step. Both paths put a real app on a real URL on your real site in under a minute.
Describe what you want. Watch it appear.
Open DSGo Apps → New App in wp-admin. Type a sentence. The builder writes the app, shows you a preview, and installs it. You can iterate (“make the result bigger,” “add a save button”) until it’s right. Uses the AI key you already configured at Settings → Connectors in WordPress 7.0, so DSGo never touches your credentials.
“Build a mortgage calculator with PMI” Included on Personal ($99/yr). The in-admin builder is the headline Pro feature.
We hand you the prompt. Claude or ChatGPT builds the app.
Open DSGo Apps → Install an app and click Build with AI. The plugin generates a bridge-aware prompt — pre-loaded with your site’s API, abilities, and connector — that you paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Lovable, or v0. Save the HTML it writes back, drop it on the same screen, give the app a name. The plugin wraps it as an app, gives it a URL on your site, and lets you embed it as a Gutenberg block, Elementor widget, or shortcode.
Copy prompt → paste in Claude → upload HTML Free, unlimited apps. The prompt builder and artifact upload both work on the free plugin with no app limit.
Putting it on the page
It’s a block, a widget, or a shortcode. You already know how those work.
Once an app is installed, you can drop it in three ways. In Gutenberg, add the DSGo App block. In Elementor, drag the DesignSetGo App widget. Anywhere else (Classic Editor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks, theme templates) paste [dsgo_app id=“my-app”]. Same app, same sandbox, three editors.
Install the plugin.
From the WordPress plugin directory, the same way you install any plugin. Activate it. A new menu item, “DSGo Apps,” appears in the sidebar.
Pick a path: build or upload.
Either describe what you want and let the AI build it (Personal), or paste an HTML page you already made (Free). Review the permissions, click install. The app gets a URL on your site at /apps/<name>.
Drop the block where you want it.
Edit a post or page, add the “DSGo App” block, pick the app. Save. Visitors see the widget in the spot you chose. The app reads the post it’s embedded in, so the same calculator can show different defaults on different pages.
Why this is safe
If the app breaks, your site is fine.
The thing that stops most non-developers from pasting code into a Custom HTML block is the (correct) fear that a bad script crashes the page. DSGo Apps doesn’t paste code into your theme. Every app runs inside a browser-level sandbox with its own permissions.
A broken app shows a broken app.
Not a broken site. The rest of the post, the theme, the menu, the checkout, all keep working. Worst case: that one widget shows an error. You delete the app from wp-admin and move on.
Apps see only what you allow.
Each app declares what it needs (read posts, read the current user, save preferences) and you approve it on install in plain English. “This app wants to: read your posts.” Not “OAuth scope.” Not “JWT permissions.”
No code in your theme.
App code never gets pasted into theme files, snippet plugins, or functions.php. It lives in its own folder, with its own permissions, and gets uninstalled cleanly. Deleting an app is one click.
The sandbox is browser-enforced, the same isolation browsers use for embedded iframes on news sites. See the security page for the details on CSP, isolation modes, and what each permission actually exposes.
What this replaces
The four workarounds people reach for today.
Hiring a developer on Fiverr or Codeable.
$50–$500, two weeks of back-and-forth, you get a custom plugin you can’t maintain when WordPress updates.
A generic calculator / form builder.
It almost does what you want. You fight its limitations for an afternoon, then ship something close enough because the fully custom thing is out of reach.
Pasting raw HTML into a Custom HTML block.
It works until it doesn’t. One typo in a script tag and the page below it disappears. No safety net.
Asking ChatGPT and giving up.
The bot writes you a beautiful little widget. You stare at the code, ask “now where do I put this?” and close the tab. DSGo Apps is the “now where do I put this” answer.
Free hosts unlimited apps. Pro adds the AI builder and CLI deploy.
The Free plugin hosts as many apps as you want via the wp-admin artifact and bundle upload paths, ideal if you vibe-code a widget in Claude, ChatGPT, or v0 and want to drop it on your site. Personal ($99/yr) unlocks the in-admin AI builder (so you stop tab-switching) and CLI deploy from Claude Code or Cursor, on up to 3 sites. Plus ($199/yr) raises that to 10 sites. See full pricing →
Install the free plugin and put one app on your site.
If it sticks, upgrade for the in-admin builder. If it doesn’t, you’re out a few minutes, your site is unchanged.