Workspace: tailoring the menu

How the Aimogen Pro Workspace setting controls which menus appear, how per-user and site-wide selections interact, and how it differs from menu restrictions.

Aimogen Pro has a lot of surface area. Workspace lets you hide the parts you do not use so the admin menu stays short.

Find it at Aimogen Pro › Settings › Workspace, and as a step in the Quick Setup Wizard.

How the selection is resolved#

Three layers, checked in order:

Your own selection. Stored in user meta as aiomatic_workspace_menus. If present, it wins.
The site default. Stored in the aiomatic_default_workspace option. Used when you have made no personal selection.
Neither is set. Every menu is shown.

That third case is deliberate. Sites that upgraded from an earlier version have no aiomatic_default_workspace value, so they keep the full menu and nothing disappears after an update.

The default for new installs#

A brand-new install is seeded with a deliberately lean set:

Menu	Enabled by default
AI Content Creators	yes
AI Content Editor	yes
AI Chatbot	yes
System & Logs	yes
Everything else	no

Settings is always available.

Controllable menus#

Each of these can be switched on or off independently:

Key	Menu
`aiomatic_admin_settings`	Settings
`aiomatic_bulk_creators`	AI Content Creators
`aiomatic_spinner_panel`	AI Content Editor
`aiomatic_chatbot_panel`	AI Chatbot
`aiomatic_shortcodes_panel`	AI Shortcodes & Forms
`aiomatic_omniblocks`	AI OmniBlocks
`aiomatic_agents_panel`	AI Agents
`aiomatic_embeddings_panel`	AI Embeddings
`aiomatic_openai_training`	AI Model Training
`aiomatic_playground_panel`	AI Playground
`aiomatic_mcp_panel`	AI MCP Integration
`aiomatic_snippets_panel`	AI Snippets
`aiomatic_batch_panel`	AI Batch Requests
`aiomatic_assistants_panel`	AI Assistants
`aiomatic_more`	More Features
`aiomatic_openai_status`	System & Logs

Workspace is not a security feature#

Workspace hides menus for convenience. It does not remove capabilities and it does not stop a user navigating directly to a screen URL.

Use it to reduce clutter. To actually restrict access, use one of:

Plugin menu restrictions — role-based rules enforced server-side.
Capabilities — remove access_aiomatic_menu from a role entirely.

Effect on the setup wizard#

The wizard builds its step list from your workspace selection. Turning off Chatbot removes the Chatbot step; turning off everything but the chatbot gives you a three-step wizard. If you re-run the wizard after changing Workspace, you get the shorter flow.

Changing your mind#

Turning a menu back on does not lose anything. Rules, chatbots, agents and settings for a hidden area stay in the database and continue to run — a hidden AI Content Creators menu does not stop scheduled rules from executing.

Next: Updating Aimogen Pro.

Still stuck? Open a support ticket and include the diagnostics from Aimogen Pro › System & Logs › System Info.