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ODD — Outlandish Desktop Decorator is now a focused app store for OpenStation. It uses OpenStation's native windows, launchers, settings, and wp.os APIs rather than replacing the host shell.

The production catalog currently contains one app: ODD Notes 1.3.0.

Try it

• Current main in WordPress Playground
• Stable WordPress.org demo
• Production catalog registry

The dev launcher installs OpenStation 1.1.0 and the latest ODD main commit. Use it for changes that have reached GitHub but have not received a WordPress.org plugin release.

Start here

• Architecture — the apps-only runtime, catalog, native windows, and REST boundaries.
• ODD Notes — storage, local recovery, concurrency, and source layout.
• Developing — build, validation, and browser-test workflow.
• Release Policy — preview catalog, production catalog, and plugin release lanes.
• Releasing — operational checklist and Playground verification.
• Gotchas — Playground transport, catalog caching, app versions, and draft rules.

Current baseline

• ODD plugin: 1.1.5 on main and WordPress.org
• ODD Notes catalog app: 1.3.0
• WordPress: 6.8+
• PHP: 8.1+
• OpenStation: 1.1.0+ (WordPress.org slug: desktop-mode)

Current product scope

ODD owns two visible surfaces:

1. ODD Shop, a native OpenStation window with a single Apps section.
2. ODD Notes, an app installed from the verified remote catalog.

Wallpaper, icon-set, cursor, widget, shuffle, and custom-placement systems are no longer loaded or published. Historical pages remain in the wiki for repository archaeology, but they are not part of the active product contract.