Zorderz is live. The first public version, v1.1, is on GitHub right now, free and open source. This is the release this whole chronicle was building toward: open source field service management software for WordPress, out where anyone can read it, run it, and improve it. It’s at github.com/CarletonTorpin/Zorderz.
The simple way to try this field service management software
Two files, in order. Download them from the GitHub release, then install them on any WordPress site: the theme first, then the apps plugin. The theme is the platform and the plugin is the apps, and the order matters, because the theme sets up everything the apps plug into.
Then set your permalinks to “Post name” and open the site. Zorderz starts as a blank slate, with no company baked in anywhere. You fill in your own business through one settings screen, or by dropping in a configuration file. And there’s a business chat built in, so the moment it’s running you can ask it what to do next.
One honest note: this still assumes someone comfortable with WordPress. I don’t expect most business owners to install it themselves yet, and that’s fine. That’s what the coming weeks are for.
What’s in the release
A WordPress theme and a bundle of eighteen apps: a camera, a media library, messaging, scheduling, jobs, estimates, invoices, a knowledge base, a chat assistant, and more. Everything ships empty on purpose. There’s no customer, no product list, no pricing, and no names of any kind inside the code. You pour your own business in, and the field service management platform gives it fields, categories, and rules.
Almost all of this was done by Ai
Transparency is the point of this site, so here’s the full disclosure. I did not write most of this myself, because I can’t. Taking a private, one company app and lifting every specific out of it, generalizing it so anyone can use it, packaging it, writing the install guide, publishing the repository, and drafting this very post: that was Ai working from my direction. I described what I wanted and reviewed what came back. Even the upload to GitHub was Ai assisted.
That isn’t a disclaimer. It’s the experiment. Zorderz is partly a bet that an Ai can build and ship real software for a person who knows the business but not the code. This release is evidence either way.
We’ll improve it weekly
This is version 1.1, not a finished product. Some of the heavier pieces are still on the roadmap, written down honestly in the repository. The plan from here is simple: improve Zorderz week by week, and keep posting what changed, how it was made, and what broke, right here.
If you want to look, run it, or send a fix, it’s all on GitHub. Field service management software gets better faster when people can read the code and hand improvements back. Grab it, tell me what’s wrong, and stay tuned.
Carleton