dmytroberberov

phwizard

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<p><strong>Ethora Chat Assistant</strong> adds an AI chat widget to your WordPress site. The assistant reads your own pages and uses them to answer visitor questions, so when someone asks about your product, your pricing, or how to get in touch, they get a real answer instead of a generic contact form.</p>
<h4>Set it up in one click</h4>
<p>The plugin includes a <strong>Set Up Automatically</strong> button. Click it, sign up for a free Ethora account inside the popup, confirm your site URL, and the plugin will:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create your Ethora account.</li>
<li>Provision an AI assistant configured for your site.</li>
<li>Crawl up to 100 of your pages so the assistant can answer questions about them.</li>
<li>Save the assistant’s App ID into your plugin settings automatically.</li>
</ol>
<p>The widget is live on your site as soon as the wizard finishes. Total time: roughly a minute.</p>
<p>Already have an Ethora App ID? Paste it into the settings field instead – both flows produce the same result.</p>
<h4>What you get</h4>
<ul>
<li>A chat launcher on every page of your site (header or footer placement).</li>
<li>Answers grounded in your own content – the assistant cites what it knows from your indexed pages instead of making things up.</li>
<li>A free Ethora admin panel where you can edit the assistant’s prompt, change its name and avatar, re-index your pages after you update them, and review past visitor conversations.</li>
<li>Mobile-responsive widget that works on every screen size.</li>
<li>Optional Google Sign-In so returning visitors keep their chat history.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Typical use cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Product and SaaS sites – “what does your tool do, how much, how do I integrate it?”</li>
<li>Documentation sites – the assistant answers from your docs.</li>
<li>E-commerce – shoppers ask about shipping, returns, sizing.</li>
<li>Customer support and help centres – first-line triage before a human steps in.</li>
<li>Lead generation and pre-sales – answer FAQs, capture warm leads.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How it works behind the scenes</h4>
<p>The widget JavaScript is bundled with the plugin and served from your own WordPress site (no remote script host). At runtime the widget connects to the Ethora chat / AI service to provision a chat session and stream responses. The full list of third-party services it contacts is in <strong>External services</strong> below.</p>
<p>The “Set Up Automatically” wizard runs in a popup on the Ethora admin domain (app.chat.ethora.com). When it finishes it sends only the new App ID back to your WordPress site via the browser’s <code>postMessage</code> API, and your WordPress site saves it to the plugin settings. No Ethora credentials are stored in WordPress.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin embeds the Ethora chat / AI assistant. Once you set an App ID and a visitor opens the chat, the widget connects to the following third-party services. No data is sent to these services until a visitor interacts with the chat widget.</p>
<p><strong>1. Ethora chat & AI service (provided by Dappros Ltd, trading as Ethora)</strong><br />
– Purpose: deliver real-time messaging, authenticate the chat session, and return AI assistant responses.<br />
– Data sent: chat messages, the configured App ID, session/authentication tokens, and basic profile data for signed-in users.<br />
– When: while a visitor uses the chat widget.<br />
– Service endpoints: Ethora REST API and XMPP real-time messaging servers on ethora.com domains.<br />
– Provider: https://ethora.com<br />
– Terms of Service: https://wiki.ethora.com/wiki/Info:Privacy_policy#Terms_of_Service<br />
– Privacy Policy: https://wiki.ethora.com/wiki/Info:Privacy_policy</p>
<p><strong>2. Google Sign-In (Google Firebase Authentication / Google OAuth 2.0)</strong><br />
– Purpose: optional “Sign in with Google” login for chat users.<br />
– Data sent: email address and basic Google profile information, only when a visitor chooses to sign in with Google.<br />
– When: during the optional Google sign-in flow.<br />
– Domains: identitytoolkit.googleapis.com, securetoken.googleapis.com, accounts.google.com.<br />
– Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms<br />
– Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</p>
<p><strong>3. LinkPreview (linkpreview.net)</strong><br />
– Purpose: generate preview cards for URLs shared inside chat messages.<br />
– Data sent: URLs contained in chat messages.<br />
– When: when a message contains a link.<br />
– Provider & Privacy Policy: https://www.linkpreview.net</p>
<p>Profile images for signed-in users may be displayed directly from Google’s user-content servers (lh3.googleusercontent.com).</p>
<p>The <strong>Set Up Automatically</strong> wizard, when used, additionally exchanges sign-up form data (email, password, first/last name) with the Ethora API to create your Ethora account, and submits your site URL for crawling. This data is sent only when you actively run the wizard.</p>
<h3>Source code</h3>
<p>The chat widget bundled with this plugin is built from Ethora’s open-source code.</p>
<ul>
<li>Plugin source: https://github.com/dappros/ethora-wp-plugin</li>
<li>Chat widget source: https://github.com/dappros/ethora-ai-chat-widget (Vite-built embeddable widget)</li>
<li>The non-minified, human-readable build of the widget is shipped alongside the plugin as <code>assets/js/ethora_assistant.js</code>.</li>
</ul>
<p>The widget is produced with a standard <code>npm install</code> + Vite build from the source repository above; no build step is required to run the plugin.</p>


Ethora Chat Assistant

Add an AI chat assistant to your WordPress site in about a minute. The assistant learns from your own pages and answers visitor questions about your s …

wpazleen

sambyte

michael

<p>AskAny is a WordPress AI chatbot built on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Before it answers anything, it retrieves the most relevant sections of your actual site content using semantic search, then generates a grounded, cited answer from that content — not from general AI knowledge.</p>
<p>Most WordPress chatbot plugins send the visitor’s question straight to an AI API and display whatever comes back. AskAny works differently. It indexes your posts, pages, products, PDFs, and external sources first, then retrieves the right content for each question before the AI generates a response. Every answer includes a source citation.</p>
<p>It also includes real-time live agent handoff, native WooCommerce order tracking by email or order ID, and SSE-based streaming that uses 90% less server load than polling-based chatbots — all without a monthly SaaS subscription.</p>
<p><a href="https://wpazleen.com/askany/" rel="nofollow ugc">AskAny Website</a> | <a href="https://wpazleen.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> | <a href="https://wpazleen.com/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Support</a></p>
<h3>How RAG Works in AskAny</h3>
<ol>
<li><strong>Index</strong> – AskAny crawls your posts, pages, products, PDFs, Q&A pairs, and external URLs into a semantic search index automatically.</li>
<li><strong>Retrieve</strong> – When a visitor asks a question, AskAny finds the most relevant content chunks using hybrid semantic and keyword search.</li>
<li><strong>Respond</strong> – The AI generates a cited answer using only your indexed content. It cannot answer from general knowledge, so responses stay specific to your business.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Semantic Search and Content Indexing</h3>
<p>The RAG and semantic search system is what makes AskAny different from keyword-triggered chatbots. It understands meaning and context, so it can find the right answer even when a visitor’s question doesn’t exactly match the wording in your content.</p>
<p>Content types indexed: posts, pages, custom post types, WooCommerce products and categories, custom fields, comments, menus, PDF documents, external URLs, Q&A pairs, and FAQs.</p>
<p>Indexing is designed to keep API costs low. Content hash caching reuses embeddings whenever content has not changed, cutting API usage by up to 90%. Batch embedding processes multiple texts in a single API call. Smart update detection only re-embeds content that has actually been modified.</p>
<p>Hybrid search runs both semantic understanding and keyword matching together. This covers the cases where exact phrase matching is needed alongside conceptual retrieval.</p>
<h3>Live Agent Handoff</h3>
<p>Agents manage conversations from the WordPress admin chat panel. When a visitor needs a human, the agent takes over in one click. Full conversation history carries over instantly with no visible interruption for the visitor.</p>
<p>The live agent system includes role-based access, online/offline status tracking, an unread message badge, and Slack integration so agents get notified and can reply without opening the WordPress admin. A Mobile App Push Bridge lets agents respond from Android.</p>
<h3>WooCommerce Order Tracking in Chat</h3>
<p>Customers can check their order status directly inside the chat widget. They can look up by email address, order ID, or transaction ID — no need to visit a separate order tracking page.</p>
<p>The WooCommerce integration also handles product information queries, real-time stock checks, smart product recommendations based on the conversation, and direct add-to-cart from chat. Product data is indexed automatically for RAG retrieval.</p>
<h3>Six AI Providers, No Lock-In</h3>
<p>Switch between providers at any time without losing your indexed content or chat history.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>OpenAI</strong> – GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, GPT-4.1, O4-mini</li>
<li><strong>DeepSeek</strong> – Cost-effective with strong reasoning</li>
<li><strong>Google Gemini</strong> – Gemini 2.0 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite</li>
<li><strong>Anthropic Claude</strong> – Advanced reasoning, safety-focused</li>
<li><strong>X.AI Grok</strong> – Real-time knowledge</li>
<li><strong>OpenRouter</strong> – 100+ models through a single API</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fallback Mode</h3>
<p>When your AI provider API is unavailable, AskAny keeps the chatbot running using indexed content and pattern matching. Visitors never see an error or a broken widget.</p>
<h3>Knowledge Base and Content Sources</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>PDF Import</strong> – Upload PDFs and the plugin extracts and indexes every page automatically. Works for product manuals, documentation, policies, and specs.</li>
<li><strong>External Sources</strong> – Index any external URL, REST API endpoint, JSON feed, or XML source as an additional knowledge base.</li>
<li><strong>Q&A Management</strong> – Add custom question-answer pairs with Markdown support. Bulk import and export included.</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Site Indexing</strong> – WordPress content is indexed automatically on publish and on update.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Analytics and Performance</h3>
<p>Track API request counts, success rates, token usage, and estimated costs per provider. Response time and popular question data helps you spot content gaps. Database tools include table size overview, one-click clean, optimize, and export, with date-range filtering.</p>
<h3>Customization Options</h3>
<p>The widget can be placed as a floating button (bottom-left or bottom-right) or embedded anywhere using the <code>[askany_chat]</code> shortcode.</p>
<p>Configurable options include: custom avatar, logo, header text, welcome message, suggested messages with predefined Q&A responses, typing animation speed (Regular, Fast, Faster, Instant), and response tone (Human, Professional, Friendly, Robotic). A homepage FAQ section and custom links support Markdown. Full RTL and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility compliance is included.</p>
<h3>Multi-Language Support</h3>
<p>The chatbot detects the visitor’s language and responds accordingly. Supported languages include English, Bengali, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, and more.</p>
<h3>Privacy and Security</h3>
<p>All chat data is stored in your own WordPress database. The only external connection is the AI provider API you choose to use. Built-in GDPR controls cover data export, anonymization, and retention. Session security and XSS protection are included.</p>
<p>AI provider endpoints:<br />
– https://api.openai.com/v1/ (OpenAI)<br />
– https://api.deepseek.com/v1/ (DeepSeek)<br />
– https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/ (Google Gemini)<br />
– https://api.anthropic.com/ (Anthropic Claude)<br />
– https://api.x.ai/ (X.AI Grok)<br />
– https://openrouter.ai/api/ (OpenRouter)</p>
<p>Full terms of service and privacy policy links for each provider are in the plugin’s Privacy section.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>= WPAzleen Settings API =<br />
Loads display settings for the Pro upgrade modal in the plugin admin area.<br />
No personal data or form submission data is sent or collected.<br />
Privacy: https://wpazleen.com/privacy-policy</p>
<h3>Source Code</h3>
<p>The source files for all compiled/minified JavaScript and CSS in this plugin are publicly available at:</p>
<p>https://github.com/wpazleen/askany</p>
<p>Build instructions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Clone the repository.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm install</code> in the root to install dependencies.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm run build</code> to compile the JavaScript and CSS assets.</li>
<li>The compiled files are output to <code>dist/</code>.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Compatible With</h3>
<p>E-commerce: WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads<br />
Forms: Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Formidable Forms<br />
Page builders: Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi, Gutenberg<br />
Caching: WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, LiteSpeed Cache<br />
Messaging: Slack, Android push notifications via Mobile App Bridge</p>
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AskAny – AI Chatbot with RAG, Live Agent and Order Tracking


I’ve been using the AskAny plugin on my WordPress site, and it’s working great so far. Setup was smooth, and the interface looks modern and clean. It’s a handy tool if you want to add an intelligent chatbot to your site.


Great plugin

Free WordPress AI chatbot with RAG, live agent handoff, and WooCommerce order tracking. Real-time SSE streaming, 6 AI providers, no monthly fees.

Ethora Chat Assistant vs AskAny – AI Chatbot with RAG, Live Agent and Order Tracking