Plugin info

Total downloads: 290
Active installs: 0
Total reviews: 0
Average rating: 0
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 11/22/2025 (86 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 6/22/2025 (0 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 6.1
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 7.0

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 86 days ago

59/100

Is KaiGen abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 86 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 6.1
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 7.0

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Description

Includes a Gutenberg block to insert a prompt that generates an image and inserts an image block into the current post.

How To Gen

Edit a post
Insert an image block
Click the “KaiGen” button in the block toolbar
Put a prompt into the input box
Click the Generate Image button
View/Edit the inserted image block (the alt text contains the prompt)

Text to image generation times vary by quality, low quality can be ~1 second, medium quality ~10 seconds, and high quality ~30 seconds or more.
Image to image generation times can take up to 2 minutes.

External Services

This plugin connects to third-party AI image generation services to create images based on your prompts. No data is sent to these services without your explicit action – images are only generated when you click the “Generate Image” button.

OpenAI API

  • What it is: OpenAI’s image generation service
  • What data is sent: Your text prompt and selected image parameters (size, quality, etc.)
  • When data is sent: Only when you click “Generate Image” with OpenAI selected as your provider
  • API Endpoint: https://api.openai.com/v1/images/generations and https://api.openai.com/v1/images/edits
  • Terms of Service: https://openai.com/terms/
  • Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/privacy/
  • Models supported: GPT Image 1

Replicate API

  • What it is: Replicate’s machine learning model hosting service for various AI image generation models
  • What data is sent: Your text prompt and selected model parameters
  • When data is sent: Only when you click “Generate Image” with a Replicate model selected as your provider
  • API Endpoint: https://api.replicate.com/v1/models/ and https://api.replicate.com/v1/predictions/
  • Terms of Service: https://replicate.com/terms
  • Privacy Policy: https://replicate.com/privacy
  • Models supported: low quality (Flux Schnell by Black Forest Labs), medium quality (Seedream 4.0 by ByteDance), and high quality (Nano Banana Pro by Google).

Important: You must obtain your own API keys from these services and are responsible for complying with their respective terms of service and privacy policies. The plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any of your data to any other parties.

Source Code

All compressed/minified JavaScript files have their human-readable source code available:

Compressed Files Source Files:
* build/index.js Source files in src/ directory
* build/admin.js src/admin.js

Source Code Location:
The complete human-readable source code is available in the src/ directory of this plugin and on GitHub: https://github.com/jacobschweitzer/KaiGen

Build Process:
This plugin uses @wordpress/scripts build system. To build from source:
1. Install Node.js and npm
2. Run: npm install
3. Run: npm run build

For development: npm run start
For more details see the README.md file.

Installation

Activate the plugin
Add your OpenAI and/or Replicate API key in Settings -> KaiGen
Choose your Provider from the dropdown

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